Author Janis Ian
1776
Back in seventeen hundred seventy-six
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Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2017/11/29 - 14:12
Song Itineraries:
Donald Trump
Younger Generation Blues
[1967]
Parole e musica di Janis Ian
Dal suo album d’esordio, eponimo
Parole e musica di Janis Ian
Dal suo album d’esordio, eponimo
I was standing on the corner, I was smoking on the sly
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(Continues)
Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2017/11/29 - 13:53
(Too Old to) Go 'Way Little Girl
[1967]
Parole e musica di Janis Ian
Dal suo album d’esordio, eponimo
Parole e musica di Janis Ian
Dal suo album d’esordio, eponimo
Don't go out in the street, little girl
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(Continues)
Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2017/11/29 - 13:43
Song Itineraries:
Violence on Women: just like and worse than war
New Christ Cardiac Hero
[1967]
Parole e musica di Janis Ian
Dal suo album d’esordio, eponimo
Parole e musica di Janis Ian
Dal suo album d’esordio, eponimo
Yesterday's preacher, today's bikini beacher,
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(Continues)
Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2017/11/29 - 13:33
Song Itineraries:
Antiwar Anticlerical
Danger Danger
Parole e musica di Janis Ian
Nell’album “Folk Is The New Black”
Nell’album “Folk Is The New Black”
Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2017/11/29 - 13:16
The Great Divide
[2006]
Parole e musica di Janis Ian
Nell’album “Folk Is The New Black”
Parole e musica di Janis Ian
Nell’album “Folk Is The New Black”
Come good people and gather 'round
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Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2017/11/29 - 12:53
God & the FBI
[2000]
Parole e musica di Janis Ian
La canzone che dà il titolo all’album
Nel secondo dopoguerra, gli anni della “minaccia comunista”, della “caccia alle streghe” e dell’inizio della “Guerra Fredda” (che tanto fredda non fu nemmeno, anzi), il padre di Janis Eddy Fink (il vero nome di Janis Ian), un semplice allevatore di pollame, partecipò ad un raduno sindacale sul prezzo delle uova, e questo allora bastava per essere attenzionato dai servizi di J. Edgar Hoover. Ma forse, in quegli anni bui, bastava ancora meno, anche solo ascoltare un disco di Pete Seeger…
The album's title is taken from the song "God & the FBI", about Janis' early life with her parents and the FBI's effect on her. "My dad was a chicken farmer who made the mistake of going to a meeting about the price of eggs; they picked him up for questioning the next day. We were on the watch list from then on. It took me nine... (Continues)
Parole e musica di Janis Ian
La canzone che dà il titolo all’album
Nel secondo dopoguerra, gli anni della “minaccia comunista”, della “caccia alle streghe” e dell’inizio della “Guerra Fredda” (che tanto fredda non fu nemmeno, anzi), il padre di Janis Eddy Fink (il vero nome di Janis Ian), un semplice allevatore di pollame, partecipò ad un raduno sindacale sul prezzo delle uova, e questo allora bastava per essere attenzionato dai servizi di J. Edgar Hoover. Ma forse, in quegli anni bui, bastava ancora meno, anche solo ascoltare un disco di Pete Seeger…
The album's title is taken from the song "God & the FBI", about Janis' early life with her parents and the FBI's effect on her. "My dad was a chicken farmer who made the mistake of going to a meeting about the price of eggs; they picked him up for questioning the next day. We were on the watch list from then on. It took me nine... (Continues)
Mama's making mimeos. Pete's on the stereo
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Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2017/11/29 - 12:44
Mary's Eyes
[2004]
Parole e musica di Janis Ian
Nell’album initolato “Billie's Bones”
Parole e musica di Janis Ian
Nell’album initolato “Billie's Bones”
Mary's eyes are startling blue
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Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2017/11/29 - 10:31
Song Itineraries:
Conflicts in Ireland
Matthew
[2004]
Parole e musica di Janis Ian
Nell’album initolato “Billie's Bones”
Con And Saddness Will Sear e Scarecrow, un’altra canzone dedicato al giovane Matthew Shepard, brutalmente assassinato nel 1998 a Laramie, Wyoming, soltanto perché gay.
I suoi assassini, tali Aaron McKinney e Russell Henderson, furono subito arrestati e marciranno in galera per tutta loro squallida vita.
Parole e musica di Janis Ian
Nell’album initolato “Billie's Bones”
Con And Saddness Will Sear e Scarecrow, un’altra canzone dedicato al giovane Matthew Shepard, brutalmente assassinato nel 1998 a Laramie, Wyoming, soltanto perché gay.
I suoi assassini, tali Aaron McKinney e Russell Henderson, furono subito arrestati e marciranno in galera per tutta loro squallida vita.
Footsteps on gravel at the neighborhood bar
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Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2017/11/29 - 10:19
Song Itineraries:
LGBTQIA+ community and homophobia: love against violence and prejudice
Seaching for America
They herded us like so much meat
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Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2017/11/29 - 09:58
Song Itineraries:
The War of Labour: Emigration, Immigration, Exploitation, Slavery
Black & White
We were marching from Montgomery,
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Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2017/11/29 - 09:56
Song Itineraries:
Racism and Slavery in the USA
Tattoo
[1993]
Parole e musica di Janis Ian
Nell’album “Breaking Silence”
Parole e musica di Janis Ian
Nell’album “Breaking Silence”
Her new name was tattooed to her wrist
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Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2017/11/29 - 09:38
Song Itineraries:
Extermination camps
His Hands
Una delle più belle canzoni di denuncia sulla violenza di genere.
Written by: Janis Ian
Performed by: Janis Ian
Appears on: Breaking Silence-1993 [1] & Best of Janis Ian: The Autobiography
Collection-2008.
Written by: Janis Ian
Performed by: Janis Ian
Appears on: Breaking Silence-1993 [1] & Best of Janis Ian: The Autobiography
Collection-2008.
His hands were made of lightning,
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Contributed by Franca Cecchinato 2008/11/6 - 10:24
Song Itineraries:
Violence on Women: just like and worse than war
Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)
(1967)
This is the song that put Janis Ian on the map. She composed it at age fifeteen, about observation she had made within her neighborhood. The original title was "Baby I've been Thinking". After the song had been turned down by twenty-two record companies, Verve/Folkaways rekeased it. Most radio stations found it too hot to handle, with its message about interracial romance. It took Leonard Bernstein's featuring Janis and the song on his show Inside Pop: A Rock Revolution for the song to take off and make its way up the Billboard charts. She remembers being a teenager and receiving numerous threats, "a lot of bomb threats, a lot of envelopes with razor blades. It was scary. I didn't understand people wanting to hurt me". It was years before she felt comfortable performing in the South.
(Jeff Place, liner notes from Classic Protest Songs from Smithsonian Folkways)
(Jeff Place, liner notes from Classic Protest Songs from Smithsonian Folkways)
Come to my door, baby,
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Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2005/3/28 - 22:43
Song Itineraries:
Anti War Love Songs, Racism and Slavery in the USA
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Parole e musica di Janis Ian
Una nuova canzone il cui video ufficiale, firmato da Christine Lavin, Janis Ian ha commentato così: “Honoring our country's return to the dark ages, we hope this video will enlighten you!”