Saturday morning pleasure is listening to the music bookmarked from #FridayNightJukebox and going into whatever rabbit holes they lead. Last nights list is so extensive, I have to take a break and come back it.

I'm way too late for #FridayNightJukebox

But on the subject of #gettingclean or if you had a messy night here's the answer.
Play it loud

https://www.discogs.com/release/3499081-Propagandhi-How-To-Clean-Everything/image/SW1hZ2U6NjYxNTg3Nw==

#FridayNightJukebox #synthwave

https://youtu.be/9XqDanKgjtU?si=hUVvqobmepOgwTVb

Feel Like Making Love
Bad Company

#FridayNightJukebox
#Mar

https://youtu.be/TeZqjZ_kvLY?si=0_TrLcgicywvNlU4

I went looking for a link to Missy Elliott’s All N My Grill on my subscription streamer. Really digging listening to it again but then an American male rapper starts in English! Big Boi? Where’s MC Solaar en français? Turns out I had a European version of the CD back in the day. 😆 That’s a global music empire tailored to local circumstance. Well played. Here’s the European version.
#HipHop50 #FiftyYearsOfHipHop #FridayNightJukebox #MissyElliott #MCSolaar
https://youtu.be/69FkmECYOxY

Had this on repeat a couple of years back https://youtu.be/4a9mXpKn924 #FiftyYearsOfHipHop #FridayNightJukebox

@KneeNeart
> jukebox Fridays has been a good way of spotting people with tastes id like to follow

Ooh! It's Friday night! Finding out what the theme is for #FridayNightJukebox is an excellent way of avoiding the work I'm meant to be finishing : P

I've got a suggestion for this week's #FridayNightJukebox (or #JukeboxFridayNight as the case may be). Last week's #TruthTellers theme brought out a whole bunch of awesome tracks, but as some people pointed out, some of the most important truths can be not only inconvenient, but downright traumatic. So many of them tended towards a downer vibe.

To balance that out, how about we make this Friday's theme 'songs that always cheer me up'? I've got a whole bunch of good ones in mind...

Missed Friday night, but it’s still Friday somewhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGDhzVi1bqU

#FridayNightJukebox #truthtellers
Red gum, I was only 19.

The Vietnam war from an Aussie perspective.

'The Perverted Dance (Cut the Balls)':
https://piped.video/watch?v=80X0pbCV_t4

This is Slovenian satirist Klemen Slakonja's hilarious homage to his countryman, the eccentric Marxist philosopher Slavoj Zizek. Even if you're completely unfamiliar with the Zizek's work and the talking points the song parodies - which have become online memes in themselves - the video is worth it for Slakonja's bang-on mimicry alone. Plus the flash mob breaking into the Cut the Balls dance? Gold.

#FridayNightJukebox #TruthTellers

OK, I know I said 10 songs, but honestly, with so many epic #TruthTellers still unmentioned, how can I not throw in a couple of bonus tracks?

'Permanent Holiday' by Mike Love:

https://piped.video/watch?v=fU7hZ3smj0g

You've probably seen this. I'd be surprised if there's anyone with net access of any kind who hasn't. But I just love the impassioned cry for people to reject the "corporate Babylon" and its "manipulation games", and the incredible musical talent on display.

#FridayNightJukebox #TruthTellers

OK, I know I said 10 songs, but honestly, with so many epic #TruthTellers still unmentioned, how can I not throw in a couple of bonus tracks?

'The Perverted Dance (Cut the Balls)' is Slovenian satirist Klemen Slakonja's hilarious homage to his countryman, the eccentric Marxist philosopher Slavoj Zizek:

https://piped.video/watch?v=80X0pbCV_t4

Even if you're completely unfamiliar with the Zizek talking points the song parodies, the video is worth it for Slakonja's bang-on mimicry alone.

#FridayNightJukebox

'Yell Fire' by Michael Franti and Spearhead:

https://piped.video/watch?v=YQ5phcEsRw4

If I was surprised that nobody has posted DKs (that I could see), I was even more surprised that nobody posted a Spearhead track yet. Although I did see a track from Michael Franti's earlier group Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, a homage to the DKs song 'California Uber Alles'. Franti has been one of the loudest and most consistent #TruthTellers out of the US, with both his music and documentaries.

#FridayNightJukebox

'Oil' by the legendary Formidable Vegetable Sound System:

https://piped.video/watch?v=h__qCy4GhSM

'Permaculture: A Rhymer's Manual', released in 2013, has a song for each other David Holmgren's 12 #permaculture principles. Oil takes on the deadly serious topic of Peak Oil and industrial society's suicidal addiction to burning fossil fuels, and turns it into a whimsical chap-hop track imploring us to "use and value renewable resources and services", as Holmgren put it.

#FridayNightJukebox #TruthTellers

'Let's Lynch the Landlord' by Dead Kennedys:

https://piped.video/watch?v=ldH9EyOf7Xk

Speaking of tongues firmly in cheek, DKs had an ability - almost unique among punk bands - to visciously savage capitalists and conservatives with a whimsical sense of fun, rather than a permanent scowl. As house prices and rents have shot through the roof over the decades since this song's release, it's only become more and more relevant.

#FridayNightJukebox #TruthTellers

'Sign the Dotted Line' by Tall Dwarfs:

https://piped.video/watch?v=eApUIH3jxjQ

It was hard to pick one track from Weeville, it's one of my all time favourite kiwi albums. It takes aim at ruby- racing-and-beer culture, yuppies, the neoliberal coup known in Aotearoa as Rogernomics, and more, but with tongue firmly in cheek, and some gorgeous low-fi songwriting. What More or Ozone or even Bodies were also candidates. The whole album is well worth a listen.

#FridayNightJukebox #TruthTellers

'Burn it Down' by David Roviks:

https://piped.video/watch?v=-dlhJlhixf4

Every time I heard some crypto-conservative representationalist calling for the state to police "hate speech", I think of this song. About an incident where indigenous activist Rod Coronado was arrested for giving a speech promoting environmental Direct Action.

"And, hey, who knows, by the time you have a chance to blink
Whether you're a criminal might depend on what you think"

#FridayNightJukebox #TruthTellers

'Suit, Suit, Kill, Kill' by Wendyhouse:

https://piped.video/watch?v=Md-wF1KbvaA

When I was a teenager in my first band, our guitarist dragged us along to an art-punk performance in the public art gallery in Logan Park. This was a major turning point in my life. Wendyhouse were simultaneously the weirdest and most political band I'd ever heard or seen. One of the members gave me my first anarchist zine, effectively beginning a life of activism that eventually brought me here.

#FridayNightJukebox #TruthTellers

'Chains' by DLT, featuring Che Fu:

https://piped.video/watch?v=4dBTLZqO2T0

Somebody posted 'French Letter' by Herbs, which reminded me of this track, in which French nuclear testing in the Pacific is also a major theme. It was a big single from DLT's sadly underrated album The True School. Speaking of #TruthTellers, the instrumental track Black Panthers is another favourite of mine from that album.

#FridayNightJukebox

'Smash the State' by Dead Viscous:

https://piped.video/watch?v=H2yA2cKfvzA

The responsible uncles of the Welly punk scene, circa the noughties. I was at the street party where this video was filmed and the cops were just as ignorant and violent as they come across in it.

I had totally forgotten until I rewatched it that I appear in this video a few times. I'll leave it as a fun game for the viewer to guess which one is me : )

#FridayNightJukebox #TruthTellers