20 Protest Songs That Matter: No. 9
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--Pearl Jam (2006)
Rebelling Against: Operation Iraqi Freedom!
Like a lot of veteran rockers, Eddie Vedder has become a campaigner in middle age, trashing George Bush with an amusing baseball metaphor in "Bushleaguer" – "Born on third, thinks he got a triple." There's nothing metaphoric about 'World Wide Suicide,' which rages against the Bushies and their Iraq war: "Tell you to pray, while the devil's on their shoulder."
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Tedat 7-15-2007
idiot!!!!!
kv5350at 9-02-2008
C_nt
LoveYerWifeGuyat 7-31-2007
Middle-age? Wow, the slack-happy, lackadaisical, Generation X has reached middle-age? I think not!
Other than that, Pearl Jam rocks.
Jimat 8-27-2007
how about just pearl jam suicide.. what a moron, too bad too they have some good songs
bushwilldieat 8-28-2007
can't wait till bush isnt pres. anymore, maybe our world will improve.
airgoodyat 9-05-2007
Disagree with ed's politics, but absolutely the best rock band of the last 25 years
Maihemat 9-18-2007
Not a huge PJ fan, but thanks for including this song.
Danat 9-30-2007
Not completely about Op Iraqi Freedom, the first lines are about Johnny Ramone if i remember correctly
mattat 10-20-2007
the reviewer/ OP fails to give credit to the author of the "born on third" quote. It was originally said by Barry Switzer, one of the greatest NCAA football coaches ever.
JOhnat 12-12-2007
4. can't wait till bush isnt pres. anymore, maybe our world will improve.
bushwilldie at 7:56PM on Aug 28th 2007
Ok fucking moron! The world was perfect until Bush came into office. The muslims were not comitting terroists acts. China and the Soviet Union were not sponsers of terroism! WAKE the fuck up , get out of FANTASYLAND and get into reality you rertard!
Kyle J.at 12-12-2007
I guess the boys from Pearl Jam don't put any value on the lives of American civilians. Those who would wish the death of innocent Americans (i.e. Saddam Hussein) deserve to be destroyed.
elessarat 12-12-2007
Response to Kyle J:
When will you righties get it through your thick skulls that Saddam had nothing to with 9/11 and, to the best of my knowledge, never threatened the US--most likely b/c he recalls how we used to be friends with him.
BTW: do you place any value on the Iraqi civilians who've died as a result of this farce?
GGat 12-12-2007
Another ding dong Saddam loyalist who hasn't quite grasped that his rapist torture-loving hero is DEAD DEAD DEAD!!
russell darkat 12-12-2007
----------------------SPINNER STAFF--------------
Same old LIBERAL PROPAGANDA B.S. --- The "BUSHIES" WAR. Give me a break AOL!!!!!!!!
russell darkat 12-12-2007
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BTW do you place any value to the tens of thousands of women and children that have been LIBERATED because of "BUSHIES WAR"??????????
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----------IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY--------------
mark in vaat 12-12-2007
Pearl Jam is IRRELEVANT! Always have been always will be! Eddie Vedder would have been better suited to have been born in the 50s and lived as a dirty ass hippie in the late 60's! PJ SUCKS!
bretat 12-12-2007
Mark in Va with your head in your ass, Pearl Jam is one, if not the most important bands in the world. YOU are a piece of shit on your mom's computer, you short bus bitch. You must be one of the 25% of the Bush supporters. Talk about an idiot drunk of a president. Take the 'W' sticker off of your Hummer asshole and join the real world.
joeat 12-12-2007
All the Iraqis were liberated from Saddam, but who is gonna liberate them from the American Empire?
Tomat 12-12-2007
These guys never protest the problem. That is Muslim Nazi Fundamentalism. They are of the same breed as a generation or so ago who could not protest Mao or old Joe Stalin, the biggest mass murders ever. Maybe he should have balanced this out with a protest song about Clinton who allowed our people to die without much of a response. I would like to punch this guy.
amerikaat 12-12-2007
Matt, when you pull yer head out, make sure you are in isolation. The "pop" is going to be might loud since you have it so far up there! Bushwilldie was not talking perfection, merely improvement. And right now, there is no where to go but up. Matter of fact, that was true in 2001 as well. When your beloved bushies were tracking down porn instead of terrorists.