Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Carl Remick wrote:
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> >As Ochs said, "A protest song is a song that's so specific that you
> >cannot mistake it for bullshit."
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> But protest songs are mostly so tedious. I'd rather listen to
> Shostakovich preludes & fugues. You can even hear the Stalin in them.
Pope's _Epilogue to the Satires_ is tedious? I don't think so. And it's every bit as polemical as _The Stone Flower_.
Carrol