[Sunday Video Club] The Stranger Song

Posted on August 30, 2010 by stacyherbert| 80 Comments

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  1. Dee | September 1, 2010 at 3:56 am |

    A glistening example of the control that is placed on free though and expression on the modern day media. Imagine Simon Paula and Randy and how they would react to a truly gifted and innovative artist such as Leonard here.
    I can see Simon frowning and rolling his eyes and Paula suppressing a giggle.
    The music industry has been hijacked and we are left with a vanilla one size fits all reality financed by Rupert and Co.

  2. Peter Karwacki | August 31, 2010 at 10:27 pm |

    I’m surprised you didn’t pick”Democracy” by Leonard Cohen, much more pertinent and a better tune in my opinion:

    “I love the country – but I can’t stand the scene”

    It describes you and Max.

    “Democracy is coming…. to the USA”

  4. stockholmer | August 31, 2010 at 7:04 am |

    10 years later (’77) , its music to riot by, (and very timely subject for today)

    Chelsea – Right To Work

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Er9gt3Zcsc

    just say no to hippy shite in all its forms

  6. Johann Strauss | August 30, 2010 at 1:15 pm |

    Another meaningful song I found listening to Leonard Cohen was Democracy. Here is the link to that song.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OETwbVBPI1U

  8. papa chango | August 30, 2010 at 11:32 am |

    chArles— I love the Concrete Blond stuff. They are not that well known in the UK.

    Your point about Marx and revolution is wrong. Marx in Capital Vol 1. was talking about Adam Smith’s invisible hand and a totally Free Market. Marx simply said ok lets take the logic of Adam Smith and David Ricardo and see whre it takes us. Well he said back then that it would lead to a massive crisis and it has. The workers were exploited and they need to understand this but Marx said that capitalism would swing from massive explotation (Neo-Liberalism) to times when there would be less exploitation( Post war settlement). Revolution was up to the Leftist intellectuals to lead or to let the fascists win. Are we at that point in history now? Abd what role are we to play? The eoconomis crisis is Class War, it is not just about money.

  9. F. Beard | August 30, 2010 at 10:30 am |

    Blown away

    The Climate Change Secretary, Ed Miliband, timed his jibe impeccably last week when he said that opposing wind farms is as “socially unacceptable” as “not wearing a seatbelt”. Britain’s largest windfarm companies are pulling out of wind as fast as they can. Despite 100 per cent subsidies, the credit crunch and technical problems spell an end to Gordon Brown’s £100 billion dream of meeting our EU target to derive 35 per cent of our electricity from “renewables” by 2020.

    Meanwhile the Government gives the go-ahead for three new 1,000 megawatt gas-fired power stations in Wales. Each of them will generate more than the combined average output (700 megawatts) of all the 2,400 wind turbines so far built. The days of the “great wind fantasy” will soon be over. from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5067351/Rise-of-sea-levels-is-the-greatest-lie-ever-told.html

    It’s good to see the bird chopper scam start to collapse.

  10. Jahilea | August 30, 2010 at 10:30 am |

    To all the children of the late 60s and 70s that grew up wondering where their workaholic fathers were.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OqwKfgLaeA

  12. flicks | August 30, 2010 at 10:13 am |

    silverfuterist reply to jberni interview :-

    http://www.youtube.com/user/silverfuturist

  13. F. Beard | August 30, 2010 at 9:50 am |

    I just read a bit about “energy amplifiers”. Basically they use a particle accelerator to trigger a nuclear reaction in thorium. Shut off the particle accelerator and the reaction stops. Neat idea but I think it is probably overkill.

  14. What-me-worry? | August 30, 2010 at 9:40 am |

    “Blair to avoid book protests with US trip”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/tony-blair/7971212/Blair-to-avoid-book-protests-with-US-trip.html

    “Last week, it emerged that he had acquired his ninth property, which will be used by his daughter Kathryn and it was reported yesterday that he was seeking a Caribbean retirement home.”

    Polite dinner conversation with Obama and Netenyahoooo more civilised than dodging rude comments from angry UK mob. Fish or meat? Caribbean or Mars……decisions decisions. Wodduck Hunt.

  15. F. Beard | August 30, 2010 at 9:25 am |

    Future battle ground fast approaching tech addiction needs:- flicks

    Thorium is a “waste” product of rare earth mining. I’m kinda excited about thorium reactors, The so-called energy crisis is getting on my nerves. We were told in the 50′s and 60′s that atomic power would make electricity too cheap to meter. I can’t tell you how much I loathed Jimmy Carter and his sweaters. No wonder Reagan won. Americans are not defeatists.

    Also, it infuriates me that war may result because of energy shortages. Totally unnecessary.

  16. feral | August 30, 2010 at 9:22 am |

    @ youri

    Molycorp – US company, are starting production again, of rare earth metals.

    http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-rare-earth-restrictions-2010-6

  17. The Fool on the Hill | August 30, 2010 at 9:17 am |

    Listen with eyes closed….

  18. The Fool on the Hill | August 30, 2010 at 9:15 am |

    Ohhh nice Music showcase!!
    From my home town…Warning this will give you chicken skin!!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isUq218aKYg

  19. feral | August 30, 2010 at 8:59 am |

    Hi people

    Just a little song for you all

    Take it as a compliment

    Good njght to some, good morning to others

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPvRsLWlDXw&feature=related

  20. flicks | August 30, 2010 at 8:48 am |

    Tofu Charlie – good link to Ellen Brown talk

    She hedges her bets cus her daughter lives next to the fascists. Ellen say it like it is Blair and Brown are criminals – Blair – war – mass killings of Iraqi people. Brown implemented Greenspan’s doctrine of no regulation on bankers in the UK and ruined many hundreds of thousands of lives through 10 years of fraud.

  21. Jayme | August 30, 2010 at 8:33 am |

    @ Geoff

    Scanned the article. Brings to mind a common method of control:

    Law 31
    Control the Options: Get Others to Play with the Cards you Deal
    “The best deceptions are the ones that seem to give the other person a choice: Your victims feel they are in control, but are actually your puppets. Give people options that come out in your favor whichever one they choose. Force them to make choices between the lesser of two evils, both of which serve your purpose. Put them on the horns of a dilemma: They are gored wherever they turn.”
    The 48 Laws of Power
    by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers

    People actually write and read books like this.

    Afflicting the planet with “A PERMANENT ECONOMIC EMERGENCY” is like the permanent war on terror or the permanent war on drugs. It looks like another game to keep the players dancing to the tune being played.

    The article mentions:

    “…deciding with whom to fall in love, cannot be love.”

    I don’t know much about finance and economies but I can agree with this statement. The idea of an idiot “quant” savant running market numbers for the sake of numbers alone kills the whole purpose of a market which is to bring satisfaction between two people (consenting adults) making a good and fair exchange. The market has become financial pornography (mentioned on one of Max’s shows). A person who games the system because it can be gamed, is sleazy. Simply put, “permanent economic emergency” is a crime against humanity.

  24. Marc Authier | August 30, 2010 at 8:14 am |

    Arrogant german racist fucker from the Bundesbank. Naturally it’s always the fault of the damn foreigners for some Germans. Bou ! The Ghost of Hitler is well and alive. Not just in Germany. In the UK and in the USA also. Don’t worry.
    In USA it’s the big bad Aaaaaaaraaaaabs and Muslims. Well in Europe it fluctuates. And in Israel, land of ‘tolerance’ guess who’s to blame for all the troubles ? The scapegoat principle is always useful. In Canada it’s always the fault of Québec French. Demonization of ‘foreign’ elements are always the preferred arm of mass delusion. I am sure that the depression will soon be blamed in United Snakes of America on Iran. In Germany it’s the fault of the other ‘inferior’ races.

    http://prudentinvestor.blogspot.com/2010/08/bundesbank-executive-attacks-jews-turks.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ThePrudentInvestor+%28The+Prudent+Investor%29

  25. In the end, we are all damned | August 30, 2010 at 7:44 am |

    How about the Doors!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELCSNl851HU

  26. In the end, we are all damned | August 30, 2010 at 7:43 am |

    How about the Beatles!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAoi_-_EVio

  27. In the end, we are all damned | August 30, 2010 at 7:40 am |

    @Stacy

    Egads, Leonard Cohen…
    Anyway, I am being told this song was a treasure:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

  28. In the end, we are all damned | August 30, 2010 at 7:39 am |

    @Jayme

    JOHNNY CASH! There we go!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho

  29. jon | August 30, 2010 at 7:37 am |

    I just want to do what ever the big media tells me. But I don’t trust those ashholes.

  30. In the end, we are all damned | August 30, 2010 at 7:35 am |

    Oh…just off the top of my head, I can think of about 1000 songs that I would rather spend 5 minutes with. Hate it when this site becomes the “Hippy Channel.” Hey Max — for you, it peaked in 1969…that was a long time ago! Time to move up to Justin Bieber! Anyone know when his new CD drops??

    And Stacy, wasn’t this before your time?

  31. harry_w | August 30, 2010 at 7:24 am |

    @Golden Spider,
    Thanks, it’s a very evocative piece of music set against those pictures, especially for anyone who’s seen war.

    This one is one is more fragments of a time and place since swept away, but more upbeat and rock n’ roll:

    Hờn Anh Giận Em Hùng – Cường & Mai Lệ Huyền
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lmt77QX0Cw

    @gussy,
    As best I can tell, Yêu Ai (Who Love), Yêu Trọn Đời (Love All Life).

    I like the Skibereen song (even if it’s contrary to the town’s local reputation), half my family are from west Cork. I prefer a later vintage though. Two for Joe McCann:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q3-Qx6ULIA
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X5j2GL8h4c

    I remember this one being belted out on the lower Ormeau the night we faced down the Orange Order:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH-QklYldy4

  32. IceIce baby | August 30, 2010 at 7:07 am |

    Stephen Colbert on everything

    http://www.colbertnation.com/home

  33. Jayme | August 30, 2010 at 6:52 am |

    Greg Brown ~ Two little feet (album Further In)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzFZ5_iEmCs&feature=related

    “We have no knowledge and so we have stuff, and stuff with no knowledge is never enough to get you there…”

  35. Wahrheit | August 30, 2010 at 5:41 am |

    I don’t understand
    Symbols from made-up god tales
    Who’s this Joseph then?

  37. Youri Carma | August 30, 2010 at 4:52 am |

    Not China, not Russia, not North Korea, not Iran, not terrorists…According to Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the “single biggest threat” to American national security is the US national debt, which is either $8.85 trillion (public debt), $13.4 trillion (total national debt), $20 trillion (total debt including GSE debt), or $124 trillion (total debt including unfunded obligations), depending on one’s definition of the word “debt.”

    “Tax payers will be paying around $600 billion in interest on the national debt by 2012, the chairman told students and local leaders in Detroit.” The Chairman (the real one, not his pale imitation over at Marriner Eccles) politely forgot to add that the successful rolling of nearly $600 billion in debt per month is likely an even greater threat to national security.

  38. Youri Carma | August 30, 2010 at 4:46 am |

    Chairman Of Joint Chiefs Of Staff Says National Debt Is Biggest Threat To National Security http://www.zerohedge.com/article/chairman-joint-chiefs-staff-says-national-debt-biggest-threat-national-security

  39. dan valley | August 30, 2010 at 4:45 am |

    Richard Russell – Fiat Money To Meet Its End http://bit.ly/amAQOG

  40. Youri Carma | August 30, 2010 at 4:33 am |

    Romania May Ditch Yield Cap `Illusion’ as Investors Shun Longer-Term Debt http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-29/romania-may-ditch-yield-cap-illusion-as-investors-shun-longer-term-debt.html

    Romanian inflation accelerated after the government increased the VAT to 24 percent to help bring the 2010 budget deficit within the IMF’s target of 6.8 percent of GDP. The central bank this month raised its year-end inflation outlook to 7.8 percent from 3.7 percent. Its target is 3 percent.

  41. Jayme | August 30, 2010 at 4:27 am |

    JAN AKKERMAN ‘HOCUS POCUS’- love the sound of singing steel, nice.

    Johnny Cash – God’s Gonna Cut You Down
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJlN9jdQFSc&ob=av2e

    Johnny Cash – Sixteen Tons
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfp2O9ADwGk&feature=channel

  42. Youri Carma | August 30, 2010 at 4:18 am |

    China defended its controls on exports of rare earth after Japanese officials raised concerns about supplies of the raw materials used in the manufacture of products from cell phones to radar.

    China cut its export quotas for rare earth by 72 percent for the second half of this year, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce on July 8. Shipments will be capped at 7,976 metric tons, down from 28,417 tons for the same period a year ago.

    China controls 97 percent of production of the materials, known as rare earth elements, giving it “market power” over the U.S., the Government Accountability Office said in a report in April. China restricts exports of the elements through quotas and export taxes of as much as 25 percent, the GAO said.

    Rare earths are a group of 17 chemically similar metallic elements, including lanthanum, cerium, neodymium and europium. The U.S. was self-sufficient in the materials until the mid- 1980s, when lower labor and regulatory costs helped China’s climb to dominance, the U.S. Geological Survey said in a report.

    From: China Defends Control of Rare Earth Exports as Move to Protect Environment http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-29/china-defends-control-of-rare-earth-exports-as-move-to-protect-environment.html

  45. chArles | August 30, 2010 at 3:48 am |

    @ the underfundedmentalist

    Finished watching the documentry…thanks for the link…Bookchin makes the bruutal point I saw early in life the regimintation in modern industrilism could never hope to yeild a true revolutionary force, Marx was mistaken there, I new this intuitivly as a child in the 70′s everytime I walked into the textile mill my mommie was a machinist at

    he also is right, one can never hope to lead an anarchist life inside a Capitolist system, just can’t be done

    Thanks for Link Undie….when the Dead Kennedys started playing a broad smile crossed my face as I remember being a young teenage radical and sneaking out to tag the barren landscapes of the South

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjMptzRVjw0

    thanks

  46. Youri Carma | August 30, 2010 at 3:43 am |

    Tapped Out: When Water Bills Force Foreclosure http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59cOz05Ovdk

  47. Frans | August 30, 2010 at 3:42 am |

    @ Youri: Akkerman: Magic isn’t it?
    Nice how he emulates the “jodeling”of Thijs van Leer on the guitar!

  48. alister | August 30, 2010 at 3:32 am |

    @Stacy- not a problem, anytime I receive a PERSONAL response from YOU to a post I make, my face just lights up with irrepressible JOY, cutie!!!!! (naughty cutie consider your little white lies recently !!! tut tut tut)

  49. zzmoore | August 30, 2010 at 3:32 am |

    The joy of not working -Zelinski

  50. Youri Carma | August 30, 2010 at 3:28 am |

    According to the Belgium Financial Paper DE TIJD (4 August 2010 page 24) George Soros and Jim Rogers Quantum Fund in the 70-ties were able to genereate returns of 4,000%

  51. dan valley | August 30, 2010 at 3:08 am |

    The Moneyless Man: How Did Mark Boyle Spend A Year Without Spending A Dollar?

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/28/moneyless-man-dollar_n_697279.html

  52. Common Sense Canada | August 30, 2010 at 3:07 am |

    Russian Gold Rush
    http://silverandgoldcoinblog.com/2010/08/23/russias-gold-rush/

    Russia’s central bank bought 500,000 ounces of gold in July, reports Ed Steer, “bringing their total holdings to date up to 23.3 million ounces… or 724.7 tonnes. So far this year they have socked away 2.8 million ounces of the stuff… over 10% of their entire holdings in just the last seven months!”

  53. dan valley | August 30, 2010 at 3:06 am |

    Inflation Deflation Debate Rages on: 2010 Economic Collapse

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0Dh4RVPaWc&feature=player_embedded

  54. Geoff | August 30, 2010 at 3:03 am |

    Beautiful Song. For some philosophical insight into the current times, check out Slavoj Zizek’s short essay called A Permanent Economic Emergency.

    http://www.scribd.com/doc/36304137/Slavoj-Zizek-A-Permanent-Economic-Emergency

  55. Youri Carma | August 30, 2010 at 3:01 am |

    AKKERMAN, ‘HOCUS POCUS’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy-27U13jHc

  56. Youri Carma | August 30, 2010 at 2:58 am |

    Max & Stacy Truth About Markets USA 08.28.2010 http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=184979.0

  57. Jayme | August 30, 2010 at 2:58 am |

    Leonard Cohen – wonderful lyricist.

    Tom Waits Waltzing Matilda live 1977
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrkThaBWa5c

  58. gussy | August 30, 2010 at 2:40 am |

    Nice one Harry-W, just listended to that tune, not quite sure what it was about, but I guess it’s some sort of resistance number (in a funky 70′s stylee), it got me thinking of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpW6C56VQUY Irish resistance spagetthi western style, and this one is well not sure if we’re up to it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jxSHV_CaDU, and these one’s are for a giggle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7yiUxCmqrI
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBa-bRyWjaU&feature=related

  59. Golden Spider | August 30, 2010 at 2:34 am |

    @Harry _w

    I remember. Although my tour was from 69 to 71 [5th Group] it reminded me. Thanks.

  60. Youri Carma | August 30, 2010 at 2:33 am |

    Some Important highlights:

    The central bank will probably expand its 20-trillion yen ($234 billion) bank-loan program and extend the term for the credit from three months, Nishioka said.

    “BOJ monetary policy alone will only stop the yen’s advance temporarily,” said Mari Iwashita …

    … policy makers were “well aware” that a strong yen would dampen corporate confidence and hurt economic growth.

  61. chArles | August 30, 2010 at 2:28 am |

    thanks undi….watching it now

  62. Youri Carma | August 30, 2010 at 2:24 am |

    Japan Plunges Even Deeper Into Deflation 27 august 2010, by Vincent Fernando (Business Insider) http://www.businessinsider.com/japan-plunges-even-deeper-into-deflation-2010-8

    CNBC Video: Japanese Deflation Persists http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1575918269&play=1

  63. the underfundedmentalist | August 30, 2010 at 2:24 am |

    ayn rand, emma goldman

    libertarianism vs anarchism
    Anarchism in America Documentary (Part 2 of 8)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLdBean1AGM&feature=related

  65. gussy | August 30, 2010 at 2:12 am |

    Good oul Dave Allen he had the banks sussed ,funny fucker http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5y_gE1Rb1Y

  66. the underfundedmentalist | August 30, 2010 at 2:07 am |

    sup chArlie
    seen this one
    ‘anarchism in america?’
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-TeGrv32Ig

  68. ronron | August 30, 2010 at 1:56 am |

    love a good singsong. with dancers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYzy8gWLkt0

  69. Youri Carma | August 30, 2010 at 1:55 am |

    What I still don’t understand, and somebody who knows the answer please explain, why Americans who resisted the “High Tea” posh talkin cocky English should have a “Tea Party”?

    Shouldn’t it be a Uptight Hot Coffee party?

  70. John Robb | August 30, 2010 at 1:49 am |

    That was strangely sweeter than the fictional “Suzanne”, but fact is sweetly stranger than Cohen. I digress, but here’s a historical glimpse into the true origin of the Tea Party…
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW42PzDyPmA

    Then came Beck…
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7DKiIQ5L4E

  72. gussy | August 30, 2010 at 1:46 am |

    Haven’t got a lot to say on global finacial collaspe, so I thought of this instead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y

  73. harry_w | August 30, 2010 at 1:46 am |

    Very, very nice gussy. 5*

    PiL – (This Is Not A) Love Song, Live in Finland
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcfT9G6jJ6s

    I’m going over to the other side
    Happy to have, not to have not
    Big business is very wise
    I’m inside free enterprise
    This is not a love song (repeat)

    I’m adaptable and I like my new role
    I’m getting better and better
    And I have a new goal
    I’m changing my ways where money applies
    This is not a love song (repeat)

    “And the f*cking Finns went wild” :D

  74. gussy | August 30, 2010 at 1:30 am |

    I leave the site to go on a bit of well deserved R&R and when I return I find no TAM NZ, no TAM London, and no TAM USA, huh whats that about, bone bleedin idle if ye ask me, oi M&S pull yer finger out, and shake a leg

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avw50zY4fxc

  75. chArles | August 30, 2010 at 1:26 am |

    the greatest Leonard Cohen song by one of the last great punk bands

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axnCMV-on9Q

    because we all know we live forever once we done a line or two

  76. BlackSwan | August 30, 2010 at 1:13 am |

    Dear Max and Stacy,

    Would you please consider imposing reasonable rules for the comments section as so many are nonsensical plus frequently cryptic notes are detracting from the quality of your site. There are ‘way too many idiotic and poorly composed comments. I would like to see fewer but better quality comments to enhance understanding of the issues you bring to our attention. Please edit and eliminate, emphasizing pithiness, originality, and clear thinking and composition. Thank you, Russell

  77. the underfundedmentalist | August 30, 2010 at 1:08 am |

    the clash- london is calling- live paris 1980
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4V5twvIUDc

    ‘cuz london is drowning,
    and i,
    live by the river’

  78. harry_w | August 30, 2010 at 1:02 am |

    Yêu Ai Yêu Trọn Đời – Hương Lan

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92wIT_DOCAQ

  79. Golden Spider | August 30, 2010 at 12:59 am |

    Stacy you are improving. Shades of Don McLean and Simon and Garfunkel – Now how about the most famous singer in the world? The crossover opera pop singer Andrea Bocilla in Vivo por ella with Sanchez.

  80. Mike/Liverpool | August 30, 2010 at 12:58 am |

    Max
    NO SINGING!
    Mike