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RIP to a real one - Tom Lehrer - Send the Marines
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Some personal favourites of mine:
Funny guy, seemed like someone who wanted people to basically be decent to eachother and not get bent out of shape over propaganda. Naturally that meant he was highly controversial in his time.
I really like "We'll All Go Together When We Go"
I just can't get over the line from one of his live performances: "China, who we call 'red' China, exploded a nuclear bomb, which we called a device"
I don't think I've seen as pithy a skewering of the insane distortions of red scare era propaganda.
It’s from the Intro to “Who’s next”