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Home Front: Politix

Stones target "hypocrite" patriots in new song

2005-08-10

The Rolling Stones, not exactly a band at the forefront of rock 'n' roll activism, are taking aim at the American right with a new song on their upcoming album, according to Newsweek magazine.

Uhuh. Right. We're supposed to take his opinion seriously.

That's probably the signal to start the revolution. Is Charlie Manson still locked up? Is it 1969 again? I keep playing this Stones CD backward, and it sez "Jagger is dead"...

The track, "Sweet Neo Con," boasts the line, "You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite/You call yourself a patriot, well I think you're full of s---," according to the weekly newsmagazine.

"You call yourself an intellect, I call you a dumbass/You ain't got no voice left/And you never had any looks"

"It is direct," singer Mick Jagger was quoted as saying, adding that his collaborator, Keith Richards, was "a bit worried" about a backlash because the guitarist lives in the United States and Jagger does not.

So what's he know about the U.S.?

"Sweet Neo Con" is one of 16 tracks featured on the Stones' new album, "A Bigger Bang," which comes out in the United States on September 6, and a day earlier internationally. It was not featured on a 12-track advance CD circulated to critics. The group's publicist was traveling and not able to confirm the quoted lyrics or provide the complete lyrics. The band is currently rehearsing in Toronto ahead of a world tour that begins on August 21 in Boston. In their 43-year career, the Stones have observed political developments in songs like 1968's "Street Fighting Man," but have generally avoided taking sides. Notable exceptions included the 1983 single "Undercover (of the Night)," about civil rights abuse in Latin America, and 1991's Gulf War-related track "Highwire."

Whoopdy doo. Somehow, when I sit down and think real hard on the great minds of the 20th century, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards don't immediately spring to mind. I dunno why.

Posted by:Oztralian [AKA] God Save The World

#44 Just had a weird thought. What if an aging rock band put out a really, really shitty song. What if that shitty song went up the charts because of the lefty lyrics despite being so lame. What if there was some kind of bet on the outcome of weather politics could trump art?

Just a thought.

Posted by: RJSchwarz 2005-08-10 18:25

#43 The stones still rock, however their politics suck.

Posted by: hey mo 2005-08-10 16:08

#42 NO GOOD REACTION
Sung to the Stoneâs
NO SATISFACTION

I canât get no good reaction,
I canât get no good reaction,.
âcause I try and I try and I try and I try.
I canât get no, I canât get no.

Sittinâ in my big olâ house.
I see my cat chasinâ a big mouse.
Iâm glad I donât have to feed him today,
âCause my record profits Iâve frittered away,
Drugs were no fire to my imagination.
I canât get no, oh no no no.
Hey hey hey, thatâs what I say.

I canât get no good reaction,
I canât get no good reaction,.
âcause I try and I try and I try and I try.
I canât get no, I canât get no.

Watchinâ my nose hair a-grow
Realize that aging ainât so slow
I wonder if I got some bad beef,
Mad cow syndrome has no releif,
I donât wanna drool on the nurseâs sleeve...
I canât get no, oh no no no.
Hey hey hey, thatâs what I say.

I canât get no CD sale action,
Purchases of them are, but a fraction.
But I try, and I try, and I try and I try.
I canât get no, I canât get no.

When Cigarettes havenât killed me yet
With what Jennings and Supermanâs wife did get
Doc tells me, âyouâd better quit this week
âcause you see youâre sinking.â - life is bleek.
I canât get no, oh no no no.
Hey hey hey, thatâs what I say.

I canât get no, I canât get no,
I canât get no good reaction,
No good reaction, good reaction, good reaction,

PS. I would like to see Jagger himself sing this.
That is what I had in mind. -O'05

Posted by: Ogeretla 2005 2005-08-10 15:22

#41 Five-year-old mind in a century old body.

Posted by: Captain America 2005-08-10 15:13

#40 After the asteroid hits, it'll be the roaches, the rats, and Keith Richards left on this rock.

Posted by: Thinemble Hupomotch7256 2005-08-10 14:57

#39 What a drag it is getting old...

(hey that could be a song!)

Posted by: Frank Martin 2005-08-10 14:30

#38 Tu, I'm tellin' ya, you have no idea how much business that cost us.

Posted by: Halliburton: Blood Replacement Division 2005-08-10 14:15

#37 "What no dig at Haliburton? Dick Cheney? Blood for Oil?

I can't beleive they missed this....."

seems more pro forma, than like they really meant it.

Posted by: Liberalhawk 2005-08-10 14:12

#36 Mindless bunch of ole' burned out junkies....

Posted by: TomAnon 2005-08-10 14:10

#35 What no dig at Haliburton? Dick Cheney? Blood for Oil?

I can't beleive they missed this.....

Posted by: TomAnon 2005-08-10 14:10

#34 Good to hear Keith already lives here now. Won't have to go through that "blood replacement" thing to get in anymore.

Posted by: tu3031 2005-08-10 14:04

#33 geriatric rock sucks

Posted by: Thaing Cravise5611 2005-08-10 13:46

#32 Mick Jagger? Oh, I yeah - he was on the Simpsons once, wasn't he?

Posted by: Xbalanke 2005-08-10 12:30

#31 OC,

Other than one poster suggesting that visas be denied (not a constitutional right BTW), I don't see a single call for censorship. Mockery? Yup. General snarkiness? Heck yeah. Rude comments about aging ignorant musicians? You bet. Censorship? Nah. Our enemies serve us best when we let them keep blabbering.

Posted by: Dreadnought 2005-08-10 12:18

#30 they have first amendment rights just like you, so if you want to censor them, good luck!

Posted by: Omaiper Crinenter3853 2005-08-10 11:29

#29 ...following the AARP party line. LOL, Matt!

Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-08-10 11:18

#28 Mick's just following the AARP party line. He knows where his bread is buttered.

Posted by: Matt 2005-08-10 11:08

#27 No furry like a Stone gathering moss.

Posted by: Captain America 2005-08-10 11:03

#26 "Sweet Neo Con," boasts the line, "You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite

Stones aint even got the standard brit far leftie line on neocons down pat.

Posted by: Liberalhawk 2005-08-10 10:53

#25 Heh.

http://wuzzadem.typepad.com/wuz/2005/08/mick_jagger_not.html

Posted by: mojo 2005-08-10 10:23

#24 lol, DB! Put them in line with the Dixie Twits and Babs Streisend. Hey, maybe there's a future "music festival" coming to a town near us soon?

Posted by: BA 2005-08-10 09:59

#23 I'm just waiting for their biting commentary on prescription drug prices called, "I Can't Get No Medication".

/sorry, couldn't help myself.....

Posted by: Desert Blondie 2005-08-10 09:42

#22 I like the stones, this is brilliant.

Posted by: Ebbuse Thriper9740 2005-08-10 09:34

#21 This is a joke, right? I mean, the tour's sponsored by Ameriquest Mortgage, for crissakes! Hahahaha... Oh, you ancient, rebellious bastards you! Street Fighing Man, my ass! Just don't trip over your walkers when you take a swing at THE MAN!
Hey, kiddos! We think Bush sucks, so we're still hip or fly or whatever the kids call cool today...
so come on out and spend 150 bucks a ticket just so you can tell the story about the time you saw US in concert. Just try to ignore the fact that we lost the magic about 25 years ago...

Posted by: tu3031 2005-08-10 09:04

#20 2b - you from SD too?

Posted by: Frank G 2005-08-10 08:57

#19 Didn't these guys write a songe titled "Sympathy for The ~~Bin Laden~~ Devil?"

Too much sex, drugs, underaged females, and ... hmmm was it these guys who had sex with a small shark or was that Led Zep? Somebody out there will recall that one. Please clarify.

Posted by: Ward C the Moron 2005-08-10 08:42

#18 It's all about free publicity and about introducing more excitement into a fading career that could use a little Viagra. It's also typical of Newsweek, which is why I no longer subscribe.

Posted by: Darrell 2005-08-10 08:40

#17 The utterances of aging Lord Rockstars who long ago became walking self-parody are just about as valuable as the words of the 60 year old street person riding a girl's bike around my slice of the city collecting second hand tobacco at 7:30 am. They share alot in common.

Posted by: MunkarKat 2005-08-10 08:12

#16 He's nothing but an over-the-hill, phliandering, alcoholhic, hypocrite. Jeez, I never new Jagger and Ted Kennedy had so much in common.

Posted by: anymouse 2005-08-10 08:07

#15 HEY MICK!!!STUFF IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: ARMYGUY 2005-08-10 07:38

#14 Honky Twonk Man

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_257b.html

http://blather.newdream.net/t/twonk.html

Posted by: Ulereger Clavigum6227 2005-08-10 06:55

#13 Talk about bad timing with the dust still settling from the London bombings. Even so, am I supposed to care about the political opinions of an aged burned out rock star?

Posted by: canaveraldan 2005-08-10 06:47

#12 The youth is correct wing.

Thanks Mick, you old man, for helping move a couple mo(o)re youngsters from the idiocy of the left.

Posted by: Ulereger Clavigum6227 2005-08-10 06:41

#11 A different spin. Jagger has always been a give the punters what they want kinda guy. He has doubtless seen the market for idiotic Leftist nonsense - M Moore etc. Just someone else grabbing his slice of the tax on Leftist ignorance.

Posted by: phil_b 2005-08-10 06:10

#10 And to begin with, the Stones were, even at the age of their splendor, a very overstated group: the Beatles could do rock like the Stones (cf return from USSR) and alot of things teh Stones couldn't do (cf "Yesterday"). It was their demagogical "rebelness" who kept them in the charts. Furthermore unlike the Beatles they weren't lucky enough to find a ~~bitch~~ Yoko forcing the split of the group before their timle had passed so survived on their myth while producing mediocrity.

But this is a moot point, whatever his musical merits the real point is why is Mr Jagger's using the stage to voice his opinion as if he were anything else but a sixty years old guy who didn't go beyond high school, has probabbly read little during his life, lives in a bubble and has had his mind altered by drugs and excess alcohol? Your average blue collar can give sounder advice than Mike Jagger so why is nobody telling Mr Jagger to shut up out oif respect for that blue collar who doesn't have the same tribune and is smarter and better informed than him?

Posted by: JFM 2005-08-10 05:58

#9 Keith Richards is a burnt out junkie.

Posted by: Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-08-10 05:55

#8 Jagger is from Dartford. Nuff said.

Posted by: Howard UK 2005-08-10 05:44

#7 Who the hell wants to see 60+ year old geezers prancing around on stage dressed like ponces and singing the songs of their 30-year-gone youth? It was time for these characters to hang it up a long time ago.

Posted by: mac 2005-08-10 05:35

#6 This should play well with the Air Head America crowd. And we all know what a massive consumer audience that is. Other than that, well who cares? All's it means is that I won't buy their album, you won't buy their album and they'll be lucky to fill little venues like Humphreys By the Sea - even after the radio stations give away 110% of their tickets. And Soros will have to fund rent a crowds to make it look successful.

"Number 3 caller, YOU are the lucky winner of tickets to the see the Stones!"

"Oh man, I never win anything".

Posted by: 2b 2005-08-10 04:32

#5 Set them up a gig in Pakistan and lose the return tickets.

Posted by: ed 2005-08-10 02:12

#4 Notable exceptions, so many notable exceptions are not anymore exceptions. I remmeber the liar line at time of Gulf War "we sell them missiles we sell them bla bla..." Just money seekers...

Posted by: Hupomoque Spoluter7949 2005-08-10 01:39

#3 Well that settles it. I'm changing my party affiliation to Democrat first thing in the morning and I'm off to the Lefty blogs right now. So long, SUCKERS!

Posted by: Chris W. 2005-08-10 00:23

#2 They should deny their Visa's and not allow them into the country. Sounds fair to me.

Posted by: Silentbrick 2005-08-10 00:20

#1 He should stick to songs about picking up ugly women.... something he knows more about than politics...

Posted by: Glaick Uneresing1986 2005-08-10 00:10

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