You Are Sleeping doesn't work for two reasons:

a) It's not really about a social issue so much as the drama of the protagonist himself, and his experience.

b) It's just a monologue, not a song.

I think We Want Your Soul would be very good.

isn't the PQM monologue by Joe Frank, the performance artist from npr and wbai 99.5 (in nyc)?

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[Dark Disco|Frozen Balearic|Gay Biker-House| Boogie-Trance|Heavy Electronica|Soft-Goth]

Plumb - Damaged

One of the saddest songs i know of, at first it sounds like a break up song, then after a while it dawns on you its about suicide, that changes everything that song like makes me want to tear almost

Kai Tracid - Too many times

Just about clubbing, ODing, drinking, binging, benders, and shit that people like me do to much

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Peace DigDug

Gotta put in a word for: Jason Downs - Cherokee (Creamer & K remix)

"Come from a country town
where there's life all around
and we help each other when we're feeling down.
Takes a tribe to raise a child
maybe that's why I see
so many suffer in the city.

I used to own this ground
But now there's no place around
for a Cherokee
in the great big city.
[bum bum. bum bum.]
Now where do I go from here
I can't sit here in my
my self-pity
I've gotta beat this city . . .
[Boom chick ducka chick boom chick ducka chick]"

atrc IS about drugs

as the rush comes as the rush comes as the rush comes

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soulful/latin/deep house + jazz

reeloop - fucking society

plummet song is about rape btw

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soulful/latin/deep house + jazz

I never thought of ASRC as a song about E.I always thought it was about the music and you.
We go deeper into the sound.
As The Rush Comes.....I thought it was the highyou get from listening to music....the rush coming when tracks build and build and then kick.

Guess there are many ways of interpreting it.

quote:

Originally posted by beema Yes it is you dipwad. Dave Dresden said so explicitly. Someone find that quote for me! If you want a song about social issues, isn't there a song on PvD's Reflections that is supposedly about starving kids in India? Personally I think you could find much better songs to do it on since Reflections was a horrible pile of shit, but that's the first tune that came to mind. As for PQM - You Are Sleeping, here are the lyrics as I have them: and here is my commentary on them...from another thread I made a while ago. Feel free to use it and expound on my theory :

I am totally loving this song because of course it is very diffirent but it is brilliant if you think about it. I love the part when she says "no scratch, no snatch" and at that moment the dramatic melody comes in and it's like "the irony of it all" kind of thing eventhough it literally isn't but it feels like that - you know a still picture of him on the streets and this unheard of situation that he's in. I don't know how to really explain the feeling but you might have felt it too when you listened to this song. It's magnificent - it sends chills down my spine.

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Why must I walk this wicked path?

Seriously someone needs to start a thread about PQM - You are Sleeping

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Why must I walk this wicked path?

You Are Sleeping is good but I'll take the Luke Chable Dub Pass thanks...