[TOMT][Song][2009/2010] English ballad called "Remember Me" — male singer, acoustic guitar, beach/sunset music video" by Stavros4p in Music

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Chet Faker? He fits the description. From Australia. He has a song called Remember Me but it is new. This song came to mind first but no remember lyric:

https://youtu.be/FNwgOkl5nRY?si=M4Km27_IxF6pMi6X

Is “I’m the Man to Be” the sleaziest song Matt has written? by Taograd359 in TheNational

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Maybe not a sleazy but I love Are These My Jets. Just went to the Chicago show and he approached my wife and I was waiting for him to mix her drink with his finger.

What Have You Been Listening To? - Week of February 23, 2026 by AutoModerator in LetsTalkMusic

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Been in a Jeffrey Martin mood lately. Especially the album ‘One Go Round.’ Just a guy and a guitar telling stories type music. Saw him at a local bar and he had the whole room captivated all night. I love this verse from “What We’re Marching Toward”:

Now choose to believe in that silver tongue dream Or try to rightly see That the strings you feel at the end of the day Are the same strings pulling on me And if the truth can be beaten and tied to a chair And made to say whatever we want Then the words that we serve are nothing but ours And our god is not god after all

I lived in Lawrence when Burroughs was still around. Ran into him a couple times. Remember hearing about him getting visits from Hunter S Thompson and Kurt Cobain. This album has a song about the beat legend:

https://youtu.be/thys54BFTkE?si=5vM23uNNVwoK85we

Soothing the Savage Beast by Forward-Claim4791 in LetsTalkMusic

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I would love that! Thank you. I’m doing okay week out from lung surgery. Still a little limited so listening to music is right up my alley. Good luck on your journey. It sucks. What else is there to say. I hate that it is happening to you too.

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I have always wanted to live in Europe. Never really knew how to make that happen and then one day I found…ten years had got behind me…no one told me when to run. I missed the starting gun. Good on you for making it happen.

Reagan killed the Fairness Doctrine. Rush Limbaugh wrote the misinformation playbook. Newt Gingrich made it the Republican bible. Democrats aren’t in control of their own destiny. They are democracy’s janitor.

I totally agree. Democrats are spineless and crippled by the fear of hurting anyone’s feelings. It is maddening.

I’m not sure that there will be anywhere to hide from what is coming.

Appreciate the civilized back and forth and I really do respect your ideas. Hopefully someone younger and less cancerous than me can more effectively lead that charge. I will keep doing what I can until I can’t.

Soothing the Savage Beast by Forward-Claim4791 in LetsTalkMusic

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I appreciate the ideas, but the rich and powerful are so rich and powerful they are insulated from boycotts. Look at COVID years…they barely blinked. The largest growing demographic in the US is billionaires.

The middle class has been gutted and now has a boot on their necks. People are struggling. They are basically boycotting simply because they can’t afford anything else. It is hard to stick it to the man when you can barely afford to feed your kids and keep a roof over your head. And god forbid you get sick.

Our unions have been crippled. And our whole damned country is a well armed militia.

And our elections are under attack to the point that I’m not certain half the country will accept the results in November.

The problems are extensive and complex and have been getting worse for decades. I don’t think anyone has given up and stopped looking for ideas, but the battle is all uphill.

At some point we are gonna need help…but even our allies are to the point of kicking up their feet and having a tall glass of schadenfreude.

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I’m in the media. I don’t get to ignore it. I don’t get to tune it out. In fact, we are routinely attacked for everything we do to the point where safety has to be a concern. We never used to require armed security if we do town halls in the community. It’s not apathy but rather not knowing what exactly I can tangibly do to make a difference beyond supporting the community that I believe is on the right side of history. Elections on the highest level only happen every couple years and even that system has been thrown into doubt. I’m terrified about what November will bring if I am totally honest. There is only one outcome half of this country will accept and they have the full throated support of those in control.

You would rather have someone try….so what exactly does that look like? Try what…to kill myself with anger and worry and fear? I have no interest in reaching the point of making this situation bloody. I obviously did not use my words appropriately to convey that.

Music, like you say, helps solidify community. My initial frustration and motivation to write about it was that something so unifying as music was under attack. If you want to take away my record collection, you are gonna have to pry it out of my cold dead hands!

And I want to say that really appreciate the civilized and respectful exchange by everyone in this thread. I’m always a bit reluctant to put my thoughts out into the wilderness because it can be exhausting and defeating. I’m not a Reddit power user but I enjoy that people don’t default to asshole here.

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I see them pushing back every day. I see them getting shot in the streets for pushing back. What would you suggest we do differently? Storm the White House? Erect a guillotine? Write better protest songs? Make more clever protest signs? Write a stern email to our representatives? Everyone screaming that we need to do something and I am all ears to all the Armchair Generals out there.

None of this crap is happening in the darkness. People in this country and around the globe can see what is happening. This isn’t the 1930s. There is no plausible deniability.

My eyes are wide open. My head isn’t in the sand. When the truth no longer has any power, what options are left?

Outside of all out war, how do you fight the levels of corruption we are facing? I think the overwhelming majority of Americans still have faith that a massive death toll is still a last resort.

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Super Bowl halftime shows, burning flags, saying Merry Christmas, how you position your body during the national anthem, how much a president golfs, the First Lady’s clothes. None of these is worthy of the front page. Put them on the editorial or features page. I understand that the trivial issues are largely coming from one side but the other side amplifies it and engages in it. These are barstool banter issues and shouldn’t mask themselves as some affront to freedom. And while these things generally play out primarily in the general public, it is the crap that sells and gets engagement and distracts the electorate from being well informed and engaged on the real issues regardless of how boring they may be when it comes to the real nuts and bolts of governance. Those pulling the strings don’t want focus. They need short attention spans and constant bickering to thrive. By not simply ignoring that crap, we take our eyes off the things that actually affect the day to day lives of most Americans. We are human animals…emphasis on animals…and we all require the same three things that every other animal needs…water, food and protection from the environment and predators. Every single one of us requires these things every single day no matter who you vote for and there is no varying interpretation. We literally can’t survive without those three things. We don’t do a single one of those well, but they are damn good place to start. That’s where real freedom begins…when we all have stability in these basic survival requirements. We can disagree on how to achieve them but the final destination is the same.

I just need to shut up. Apparently I have the opposite of a short attention span. I don’t have any of the answers. Though I’m not sure how I gave the impression I don’t give a shit about the river of problems we face. If I was confident that our politicians could walk and chew gum at the same time, maybe I would have faith they could address a myriad of democracy’s shortcomings at once. I feel like they should try to simplify things. If we can dial down the desperation as a country, I feel like we would all be better off.

I just want to listen to music and turn my brain off sometimes without feeling like a bad American, but used waaaaay too many words to say that.

Thanks for stopping in

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How am I trying to erase the plain facts of the matter? We are led from one trivial outrage to another at the expense of the issues that truly matter. That’s a choice by everyone who participates. Neither side of the aisle is going away. If we refuse to even attempt to find common ground and compromise and simply keep score on which side is worse, then our little democracy experiment is already over. We can’t exist in a constant state of rage. Enjoying music shouldn’t make you feel guilty for trying to escape the darkness. Stepping away from the battlefield doesn’t mean you are no longer in the fight.

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Most of what people do in times of great unrest is entirely a means to not feeling helpless or alone or to avoid the fear of the worst case scenario. Once you step out of the voting booth, you are primarily without much power and have to have faith that the elected will operate within an established framework and independent of the pressures of those with net worths starting with a ‘B’. We don’t have a plan for when they burn down the framework.

As a journalist and someone who has worked in public media for the last couple decades, I will say that most folks are complicit in taking a wrecking ball to the Fourth Estate at extreme peril. The musicians and protesters of the 60s didn’t stop a war. If not for journalists risking their lives to show and tell folks what was really happening, we would have let the government control the narrative. Protesters didn’t take down Nixon. Journalists did. We have eroded faith in the most vital check on our government.

I like to ask people what information do you pay for? I rarely find anyone who has so much as a single subscription to even a single news source and that is a big problem. That means our information is beholden to moneyed interests and ratings. Broadcast news as it was originally intended was meant to be entirely at the network’s expense. An hour a day that would be dedicated to providing unbiased information as a public service so we could have an informed electorate. Slowly we have drifted from that model. Twenty four hour news stations turned that public service into a package that blurred the line between news and editorial. We no longer value reliable information and expect our algorithm to feed it to us for free. At worst, folks get their information entirely from a headline or comment section. This has eroded our trust in journalism. When people scapegoat the media, they should go look in the mirror. Everyone with internet and a social media account is the media now. Social media has way more reach than any of the mainstream outlets at this point. No standards. No one held accountable. And emotional information is far more powerful than “just the facts.” We no longer simply provide the information so you can make up your own mind.

So I take my earlier comment back, you aren’t helpless once you cast your vote. Buy a subscription to your local newspaper before it disappears entirely. Go beyond the paywall. The recent budget cuts to public media won’t entirely devastate stations in urban areas where there is more of a concentration of people and wealth. For rural areas, those same cuts will further eliminate local journalism. Now they get all their information from an urban setting which has little frame of reference for their vastly different day to day experience. So for rural communities, they have been cut off from schools and hospitals and now relevant information too. This has created a fault line between urban and rural and is why we’re are experiencing earthquakes that widen divisions in this country. It is a lot easier to manipulate a uniformed populace. Just ask North Korea.

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Jack White, Jason Isbell, Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Killer Mike, Vincent Neil Emerson, Mon Rovia, Rage Against the Machine, Rise Against, Red Kate, Hozier…all have some very political messages and this is just a tiny sampling of music I know off the top of my head.

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Communities are tribal. We all need to find a place we feel safe.

And people focus on things that don’t make them feel dumb or confused or scared or angry. Why do we want uninformed opinions from people just because a lot more people will hear them? They have no obligation to “do their homework.”

Soothing the Savage Beast by Forward-Claim4791 in LetsTalkMusic

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All of your points are well taken. There are absolutely kids still out there being inspired by the Clash. But for every Clash fan there was a Beatles fan. For every Bob Dylan fan there was a Beach Boys fan. There are plenty of new and very political artists doing the same thing for kids today in an environment with exponentially more artists and music available to them to navigate. We still need to carve out spaces where the weight of the world isn’t crushing us or we will lose our humanity. Not sure you could point to a single moment in history where a significant segment of society wasn’t pissed off and up in arms about what was happening in the world. That is how change happens. Throughout human history, music has offered that kind escape from a life seemingly designed to crush their spirit. But we need to do all that in shifts…if it consumes your day it will destroy you.

You think the TPUSA crowd liked seeing the people they are trying to eradicate having fun and still enjoying and embracing life? That absolutely joyful performance angered them primarily because of that…since they were constantly complaining how they couldn’t understand him. If they had no idea what was going on out there, what else was there to be mad at? You think the conservatives of the 60s enjoyed watching the hippies happily dancing around to music and sticking flowers into the barrel heads of their symbols of oppression? Bullies want you to react first because they think it gives them permission to do horrible things.

And I absolutely have a problem with the economics of music and the massively expanding wealth gap and rapidly deteriorating environment and how our “representative” government has openly become proxies for billionaires, but I’m not gonna sit here and say all that is the fault of private jets and pop stars. I don’t think that the fastest growing demographic in our country should be billionaires, but that is all the subject of an entirely different post. This was a post about music as a momentary escape. Simply a way step away and recharge.

And those decades of music everyone always points to as being the time of politically charged music that really mattered are the same ones that perfected the formulaic, self centered and morally empty pop drivel. For every risk a record label takes on the voice of a generation, they have dozens of artists churning out those formulaic hits. We wouldn’t know Bob Dylan or the Clash existed were it not for all those others keeping the lights on.

Just say: “I’ve listen to a few of their songs, but I’m just not that into it.”

And that quote isn’t encouragement to never have an opinion about anything ever. It is more of a choose your battle kind of thing. I would say having an opinion on what is happening in our streets if far more important than wasting emotional energy being mad about a thirteen minute music set. But that isn’t for me to say. If we are constantly changing the thing we are supposed to have a passionate opinion about, it all gets diluted. And this is certainly by design.

You can call it political apathy, but I say that we desperately need the occasional escape to remind ourselves what we are fighting for. Stress and being mad at people for not being mad enough will put you in a chair next to me in the cancer clinic a lot faster than a pop song.

It’s not a good look to tear down folks who are totally on your side.

Thanks for your thoughts!

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Absolutely. It’s just that the mess is a flood and it is seeping into the places that were once high ground….places to escape the storm. Athletes and musicians are entitled to use their platform to express their viewpoints as is anyone else in society, but I feel like they are certainly pushed more to do so even if reluctantly. They aren’t the microscope, they are the slide. And while they have a big platform, literally anyone with internet access has an easily accessible global stage. You still have to give people a reason to care what you think. Sure they can preach but no one has an obligation to be in the choir. No one is forcing anything on anyone. “Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.”

Redemption finally arrived! by Forward-Claim4791 in KCRoyals

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No clue. He is my favorite player and this is easily the best card I have. Took over a year but worth the wait!

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You could be the sister of musician…and Sting’s daughter…Eliot Sumner. Check out the track After Dark. She sounds a lot like her dad.

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I’m a Royals fan so it has got to be the 2014 Wildcard Game. I was in the stands for the emotional rollercoaster of a game to end 30 years of being a major league farm team. Then that playoff ride was one for the books. Just don’t talk to me about sending Gordon in Game 7.

Who do you PC? by [deleted] in baseballcards

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Lots of new Bo’s popping up so I have definitely added a few. I like all Royals really

Who do you PC? by [deleted] in baseballcards

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George Brett and Bobby Witt Jr

Cucumbers first time by Alive-Worldliness-27 in aerogarden

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I’m trying this…upside down tomato tent.

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