"Despicable" is one of those Hitchens-y words that are hyperbolic 95% of the time and make me shut my ears when I hear it.
--- James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> An Die asks whether I really mean to call Pete
> Seeger 'Despicable'? No. I
> mis-typed. I meant that the song was despicable
> (which it is). Seeger, I
> think is a bit one-note, but by no means despicable.
> Dylan might have been
> beastly to those around him, but let's face it, they
> were a bit complacent.
> I do like Woody Guthrie, especially on the Gran'
> Coulee Dam (and of course
> the Big Rock Candy Mountain). Right now, the Arctic
> Monkey's 'Riot van' is
> pretty evocative for me, being sung in the Yorkshire
> accent and attitudes of
> my childhood. But perversely, my playlist is all
> environmental theme songs
> which make me laugh out loud - 'Mercy mercy me, oh
> the ecology'; 'Village
> Green Preservation Society'.
>
>
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