worlds collide

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Feb 26 07:27:59 PST 2001


Catherine Driscoll wrote:


>mediocre seems excessively dismissive
>
>and to see admiration of che as utterly counter to the desirable cause
>well
>somehow it seems to me to miss the point
>i can see the compromise
>but admiring che is so much better than admiring so many much more
>frequently admired people

I don't share the anarchists' view of Che; I was just trying to parse the graphic.

But RATM's music and lyrics just sound ponderous and preachy to me. Most explicitly political popular music sounds that way to me, except the Mekons, with their boozy wit.

Doug



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