Music
Show Details for the week of December 12th, 2016
This week’s show is a little different. It is a mix of audio clips edited together featuring: part of “Hypernormlization” by Adam Curtis, the voice of Carl Sagan, JFK’s “Peace” speech, a clip from “Mississippi Burning” and Charley Chaplin’s speech in “The Dictator“. I hope you enjoy the journey.
Show Details for the week of June 13th, 2016
As you hopefully know, The Monitor is built on bringing you extended interviews with experts on a diverse range of topics. However, I am on the road and in a different time zone for the next three shows. So, it is going to be very hard to arrange live interviews, but I hope to be able to record some interviews for the show and share them with you. With those obstacles in mind, this week’s show is a musical blend of protest, social commentary, and political statement.
Here is the playlist:
We’re All To Blame – Sum 41
30 Year War – Manic Street Preachers
A Few Words in Defense of Our Country – Randy Newman
All Good Soldiers – Bad Religion
Babylon’s burning – The Ruts
Between The Wars – Billy Bragg
City Of Immigrants – Steve Earle
Consumerism – Lauryn Hill
Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums – A Perfect Circle
Don’t Believe a Word – Third Eye Blind
Effigy – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Food For Thought – UB40
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Saxon
United States of Eurasia – Muse
Gimme Some Truth – John Lennon
Show Details for the week of April 18th, 2016
Houston is flooded this week. If you live in here you likely already know this. Our usual format is to have news headlines and two interviews but since the roads are flooded and I am not able to safely get to the station I’ve had to put something together for you from home. As a complete change of pace, I decided to do a musical show.
I will be playing one interview in the middle of all the music but the interview is with an artist. His name is Felipe Andres Coronel but he is better known by the stage name Immortal Technique. Tech is an American rapper of Afro-Peruvian descent as well as an urban activist. He was born in Lima, Peru and raised in Harlem, New York. Most of his lyrics focus on controversial issues in global politics and that is why I interviewed him the place back in 2011. The views expressed in his lyrics are largely commentary on issues such as class struggle, poverty, religion, government and institutional racism.
Other than this interview, I am playing some of my favorite political songs from several decades. The music you’re about to hear includes Tracy Chapman doing a cover of Bob Dylan’s song the times they are a changing, Gil Scott Heron’s the revolution will not be televised, Public Enemy’s Fight the Power, a track called Reagan performed by Killer Mike, and more.
Full playlist:
- Tracy Chapman’s version of “The Times They Are a-Changin‘”
- Ed Sheeran’s version of “Masters of War”
- Michael Franti “Hey World Don’t Give Up”
- Gil Scott-Heron “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”
- Public Enemy “Fight the Power”
- Killer Mike “Reagan”
- Interview with Immortal Technique
- Black Sabbath “War Pigs”
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