Hey ho! Let's go! A week of listening to your rallying cries was a stirring experience. I swear I was moved to rise up and do something spectacular. Then I got tired and sat down again.
I didn't expect the definition of rallying cry to be stretched quite as far as it was, but that's the fun of this kind of topic. It invites debate. (On which note, I enjoyed the spontaneous Miles Davis symposium. It felt like a party at four in the morning when almost everyone's gone home apart from a couple of people debating loudly in the kitchen.) My dictionary says you need more than one person for a rally, so I stuck to songs which addressed a large number of listeners and explicitly called for action.
I was delighted to discover the Chameleons' Don't Fall, but according to Mark Burgess himself, it's about having a wobbly time on magic mushrooms and not Britain under Thatcher at all, so that was out. As was Fugazi's brilliant, but not quite applicable Merchandise. So the B-list looks like this: Eddie Cochran (C'mon Everybody), Curtis Mayfield (Move On Up), Dizzee Rascal (Stand Up Tall), Fairport Convention (Come All Ye), Rage Against the Machine (Take the Power Back), Pulp (Mis-Shapes), the Last Poets (Wake Up Niggers), the Alarm (Sixty Eight Guns), the Sex Pistols (Anarchy in the UK), Spacemen 3 (Revolution) and Primal Scream (Come Together).
I'm away next week so I'll be handing over to Maddy Costa, who did such a faultless job last time. As requested by Raindog2, the topic is babies and childbirth, which includes pregnancy but excludes childhood beyond the first few months. Hopefully the resulting thread will provide a vital resource for all future parents pondering what to put on that new-baby CD. (In the event, it's funny how it's the songs you don't choose that hit hardest. When my daughter was born, I was emotionally ambushed by the radio playing the Velvet Underground's Pale Blue Eyes. But I digress.)
This way for the A-Z and the Readers recommend archive. All suggestions by midday on Monday please.
