Change? No, da noi non si può...

Il 20 gennaio Barack Obama diviene il primo presidente afro-americano degli Stati Uniti. Il mondo è ad una svolta.

Il 21 gennaio, in Italia, la notizia più letta sul sito del Corriere della Sera è:

"Primo topless nella casa del grande fratello: è quello di Federica".

...

Al secondo posto c'è Obama.

Siamo senza speranza. Siamo un paese di merda.

(l'immagine qui a destra è stata creata dal vostro indierocker da questo sito...)

ruby coast - more than television (mp3) (mp3 removed)

Change? Yes, I Hope so...

david bowie - changes (mp3) (mp3 removed)

will.i.am and barack obama - yes we can (mp3)

....discorso di insediamento di Obama oggi, 20 gennaio 2009, Washington DC... non si poteva non parlarne, no? ...il testo completo in inglese qui, e la traduzione in italiano qui ...

Yes We Can

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...beh, siamo contenti, no?

Barack Obama, classe 1961, è il 44° Presidente degli Stati Uniti.

Il primo presidente nero.

"Nero? Non si può dire", si scusa Vespa, "bisogna dire afro-americano".

Martin Luther King nei suoi discorsi diceva negro, senza tanti problemi.

Frattini, quella faccia da secchione figlio di papà diventato adulto, sostiene che Obama ha molti punti in comune con Berlusconi: sì, certo, il colore della pelle di uno e il cerone dell'altro.

Vespa non è Martin Luther King, Berlusconi non è Obama, Frattini invece può diventare il nuovo Bondi.

Qualcuno vuole dire a Veltroni che lui non vale nemmeno un pelo del sedere di Obama?

will.i.am (barack obama and friends) - yes we can (mp3)



It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.
Yes we can.
It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward freedom.
Yes we can.
It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness.
Yes we can.
It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballots; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the Promised Land.
Yes we can to justice and equality.
Yes we can to opportunity and prosperity.
Yes we can heal this nation.
Yes we can repair this world.
Yes we can.


PS: le foto di questo post (la prima scattata a Seligman, sulla route 66, la seconda in un bagno di Las Vegas), come quelle del deserto e di Amsterdam, sono state scattate da me, e quindi ci potete fare quello che volete. Per l'mp3, il video e le parole di will.i.am, yes we can, credo non ci siano problemi...

I have been busted for infringing the DMCA in my last post (the best 55 songs ever), which was removed by Mr Blogger without pre-notice. The pictures published here and in the last posts are all mine, so you can use them for whatever you like. The hell with DMCA! What's this, fucking 1984?

Obama versus McCain: their best songs ever

Today, September 4th, two months before the election of the new President of the US, due November 4th. And Indierocker wants to contribute to the political debate: which are the five best songs ever, according to Barack Obama and John McCain?


Here they are:


Barack Obama:

1- Fugees – Ready or not ........(video down there somewhere)
2- Marvin Gaye – What’s going on (mp3)
3- Bruce Springsteen – I’m on fire (mp3)
4- Rolling Stones – Gimme shelter
5- Nina Simone - Sinnerman

John McCain:

1- ABBA – Dancing queen (mp3)
2- Roy Orbison – Blue bayou
3- ABBA – Take a chance on me
4- Merle Haggard - If we make it through december
5- Dooley Wilson - As time goes by

...how can you possibly vote for a man who puts ABBA at number 1 AND at number 3?

...and now, make your choice, on November 4th!

Here's Obama's #1:


..per gli amici italiani: no, dico, come c*$£o si fa a votare uno che mette gli ABBA al numero 1 e al numero 3? Va bene in una serata anni '80, una serata in cui il DJ sbrocca, una serata ad alto livello etilico... ma nominarla la migliore canzone di tutti i tempi?!? Come si fa...

...se con questo post riesco a spostare anche un solo voto, mi ritengo soddisfatto!


PS: le cinque migliori canzoni di tutti tempi per Obama e McCain non vengono dal meme lanciato un bel po' di tempo fa e che e' arrivato fino a loro, no...

...the whole story here!

Barack Obama in Berlin

In Europe, the view that America is part of what has gone wrong in our world, rather than a force to help us make it right, has become all too common. In America, there are voices that deride and deny the importance of Europe’s role in our security and our future. Both views miss the truth – that Europeans today are bearing new burdens and taking more responsibility in critical parts of the world; and that just as American bases built in the last century still help to defend the security of this continent, so does our country still sacrifice greatly for freedom around the globe.

Yes, there have been differences between America and Europe. No doubt, there will be differences in the future. But the burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us together. A change of leadership in Washington will not lift this burden. In this new century, Americans and Europeans alike will be required to do more – not less. Partnership and cooperation among nations is not a choice; it is the one way, the only way, to protect our common security and advance our common humanity.

That is why the greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another. The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down.


L'intero discorso di Barack Obama del 24 luglio a Berlino lo trovate qui, con tutta la trascrizione.

Qui sotto potete ascoltare e scaricate l'mp3 di will.i.am, mentre il video con il testo lo trovate qui.

Will.I.Am (Barack and Friends) - Yes, We Can (mp3)

Yes, we can

It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.
Yes we can.
It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward freedom.
Yes we can.
It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness.
Yes we can.
It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballots; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the Promised Land.
Yes we can to justice and equality.
Yes we can to opportunity and prosperity.
Yes we can heal this nation.
Yes we can repair this world.
Yes we can.
We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change. (We want change.)
We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics…they will only grow louder and more dissonant ……….. We’ve been asked to pause for a reality check. We’ve been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope.
But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
Now the hopes of the little girl who goes to a crumbling school in Dillon are the same as the dreams of the boy who learns on the streets of LA; we will remember that there is something happening in America; that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation; and together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story with three words that will ring from coast to coast; from sea to shining sea: Yes We Can.

Piu' guardo le scene di questa nostra campagna elettorale, e più mi fanno schifo. Più guardo, e leggo, quello che succede in USA, e ancor più mi fa schifo la nostra campagna elettorale. Perchè non ci meritiamo anche noi un Barack Obama?

La storia di questa canzone e di questo video: will.i.am dei Black eyed peas è partito dalle parole di un comizio di Obama, il giorno dopo le primarie in New Hampshire. Ha chiamato a raccolta un po' di gente, e li ha fatti cantare, sullo stile di Do they know it's christmas...
Qui di seguito potete scaricare anche l'mp3, insieme a uno degli Smiths (che inizia con le parole "good times for a change"!!!) ...per favore, per favore, per favore, fammi avere quello che voglio stavolta... e 'fanculo Sanremo!!!

If you're visiting this blog from the US, you dont need any explanation to this post.. DO YOU?! Anyway, here you can find the video, the mp3, and the lyrics of this song, yes we can, and also a song by the smiths, where the first words are "good times for a change"...

will.i.am - yes we can (mp3)

the smiths - please, please, please, let me get what i want (mp3)

I feel a change in the air...

Perchè non possiamo dire, come ha fatto ieri Ted Kennedy, "...avverto un cambiamento nell'aria", "ho trovato un candidato con doti straordinarie di leadership e carattere, che sono all'altezza delle straordinarie richieste di questo preciso momento storico"?
Perchè non possiamo? Perchè noi no???