Reflections Through... Music

Art is a Reflection of Reality

"In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable, and help to change it." -Ernst Fischer

Power To The People - John Lennon

"Say you want a revolution, We better get on right away, Well you get on your feet, And out on the street. Singing power to the people, Power to the people"

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Redemption Song - Bob Marley

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds. Have no fear for atomic energy, 'Cause none of them can stop the time. How long shall they kill our prophets? While we stand aside and look?"

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Pull Up The People - M.I.A.

"Pull up the people, Pull up the poor."

"Almost half the world's population lives on less than two dollars a day, yet even this statistic fails to capture the humiliationm, powerlessness, and brutal hardship that is the daily lot of the world's poor." -Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General

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Harrowdown Hill - Thom Yorke

"We think the same things at the same time, we just can't do anything about it. We think the same things at the same time, there are just too many of us so you can't count."

Harrowdown Hill in Oxfordshire is notable for being the place where the body of Dr David Kelly was found in 2003. His evidence had raised questions about Saddam Hussein's possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction — the official justification for the UK government's decision to invade Iraq. Excerpt from Wikipedia.

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Featured Music

Tell The Truth - Mos Def, IT, and Eminem

"All they talk about is terrorism on television, they tell you listen but they don't really tell you their mission, They funded Al Qaeda and now they blame the Muslim religion, Even though Bin Laden was a CIA tactician."

Working Class Hero - Green Day

"As soon as your born they make you feel small, By giving you no time instead of it all, Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all, A working class hero is something to be. "

Demon Days - Gorillaz

"In these demon days it's so cold inside, So hard for a good soul to survive, You can't even trust the air you breath, Because Mother Earth wants us all to leave, When lies become reality, You numb yourself with drugs and T.V. Lift yourself up it's a brand new day, So turn yourself round, Don't burn yourself, turn yourself, Turn yourself around into the sun!"

What Would You Do - Paris

"What would you do if you, Knew all of the things we knew, Would you stand up for truth? Or would you turn away too? And then what if you saw, All of the things that's wrong, Would you stand tall and strong? Or would you turn and walk away?

World on Fire - Sarah McLachlan

"The world's on fire it's more then I can handle, I'll tap into the water try and bring my share, Try to bring more, more then I can handle, Bring it to the table, Bring what I am able."

Mosh - Eminem

"No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our own soil, No more psychological warfare, to trick us to thinking that we ain't loyal, If we don't serve our own country, we're patronizing a hero. Look in his eyes its all lies..."

American Idiot - Green Day

"Don't want to be an American idiot. Don't want a nation under the new media. And can you hear the sound of hysteria? The subliminal mind fuck America."

2+2=5 - Radiohead

"All hail to the thief, All hail to the thief, But I'm not, But I'm not, But I'm not, But I'm not, Don't question my authority or put me in the box, 'Cause I'm not, 'Cause I'm not."

Anthem, Part 2 - Blink 182

"Corporate leaders, politicians, Kids can't vote, adults elect them, Laws that rule the school and workplace, Signs that caution sixteen's unsafe, We really need to see this through, We never wanted to be abused, We'll never give up, it's no use, If we're fucked up, you're to blame."

4th Branch - Immortal Technique

"It's like MK-ULTRA, controlling your brain. Suggestive thinking, causing your perspective to change. They wanna rearrange the whole point of view of the ghetto. The fourth branch of the government, want us to settle."

Time is Running Out - Muse

"Our time is running out, Our time is running out, You can't push it underground, You can't stop it screaming out. How did it come to this?"

Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah - The Flaming Lips

"And so we cannot know ourselves, Or what we'd really do, With all your power, With all your power, With all your power, What would you do?"

A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay

"Oh I'm gonna buy this place and start a fire, Stand here until I fill all your heart's desires, Because I'm gonna buy this place and see it burn, And do back the things they did to you in return."

What I've Done - Linkin Park

"In this farewell, there is no blood, there is no alibi, Cause I've drawn regret, From the truth, Of a thousand lies, So let mercy come and wash away... What I've Done... "

American Terrorist - Lupe Fiasco

"Now if a Muslim woman strapped with a bomb on a bus with the seconds running give you the jitters? Just imagine a American-based Christian organization planning to poison water supplies to bring the second-coming quicker."

News Through Muse

There's a War Going On For Your Mind - Flobots

"There's a war going on for your mind, Media mavens mount surgical strikes from trapper keeper collages and online magazine racks, Cover girl cutouts throw up pop-up ads, Infecting victims with silicone shrapnel, Worldwide passenger pigeons deploy paratroopers, Now it's raining pornography, Lovers take shelter."

Madman's Dream - Assemblage 23

"I saw cities swallowed by the ocean, I saw children crying in the streets, Hundreds stranded on the overpass, Bodies rotting in the brutal heat, Cries for help fell on deaf ears, 5 days passed and no one came, Pointing fingers while the people died, I saw a nation hang it's head in shame."

Wake Up - Rage Against The Machine

"Departments of police, the judges, the feds, Networks at work, keepin' people calm, You know they went after King, When he spoke out on Vietnam, He turned the power to the have-nots, And then came the shot."

Home of The Brave - Mr.Lif

"America supported the Taliban, To get Russia out of Afghanistan, That's how they got the arms in, They're in a war against the Northern Alliance, And we can't build a pipeline in hostile environments."

Virus - Deltron 3030

"Human rights come in a hundredth place, Mass production has always been number one, New Earth has become a repugnant place, So its time to spread the fear and the thunder some."

Hands Held High - Linkin Park

"Risk something, take back what's yours, Say something that you know they might attack you for, Cause I'm sick of being treated like I have before, Like it's stupid standing for what I'm standing for, Like this war's really just a different brand of war, Like it doesn't cater the rich and abandon poor."

Capitalism Stole My Virginity - International Noise Conspiracy

"Robbed out of our bleeding hearts, Smashed our illusions, tore them all apart, Now we are unsentimental and unafraid, To destroy this culture that we hate, Sort of tired of being nothing, When, when we should be everything. "

In 2 Deep - Damien Marley

"Want to commit suicide, Cause you've been denied, your 9 to 5, You're in too deep, If you're over 10, And watch CNN and believe everything, You're in too deep."