Mumford & Sons - Dustbowl Dance
Mumford & Sons fucking rule. I certainly hope your neighbours like this song too! Their debut album, Sigh No More, was one of the biggest of all time (especially considering it came out in the 21st century, during the death of the CD). The album spawned several hit singles and there really isn't a bad track on it. Almost entirely acoustic, Mumford & Sons have forged a sound that is at once old-time folky yet ready for grand arena rock spectacle. The banjo has never sounded so thrilling! These guys are definitely on my must-see band list. I only hope that they don't fuck it up and play Rogers Arena when they come here (they definitely could if they wanted to). I'm hoping for something like Deer Lake Park but could also see them headlining Sasquatch which would be even better.
The song I have chosen to represent this excellent band and their debut album is "Dustbowl Dance". It is not necessarily my favourite and is quite unlike a lot of their banjo and acoustic driven tracks. This song is just pure fucking badass. Marcus Mumford pours his heart out into the singing, belting the dooming lyrics before the rest of the band joins him for the intense chorus. The band then thrashes away, raging against the corporate machine that has taken the farmer's land from his son. The son does not lie down in defeat and takes on the bank with violence (the final crazy instrumental) before pleading guilty in court at the end.
It is this furious anger towards the man (banks, the 1% etc.) that puts normal men and women in situations where they have nothing left to do but rage against the machine. Right now in the USA millions are being forced into this situation where they are being told to lay down yet they want to get up and fight. The key fucking tool in all of this is likely the next President of the United States, Mitt Romney. If Americans don't smarten up the next leader of the free world will be the same man who created its doom.
Basically, with a lot of fancy financial mumbo-jumbo, Mitt Romney has spent his career working for a private equity firm, Bain Capital, and profitting off the destruction of failing companies. I still don't completely understand it (I barely passed finance lol) but from what I gather, through Bain, Romney would find a struggling company that needed financial help. He would then put down about $5 million of the company's money and add an additional $250 million dollars of borrowed money from big banks to refinance the company, and giving Bain the power to do what they want with its assets. He was able to do this by convincing top managers and executives that they'd get a fat bonus. So with the bosses happy, Bain would then turn to liquidating the assets which, at this point were just the employees and regular work force. These people were often fired and let go without pensions or benefits etc. At this point the taken over company is now bankrupt because of the lack of anything proper done by Bain (they usually have no clue how the industry they just purchased works) then Romney and his boys would cash out, often making $100's of millions of dollars, and leaving the company to pay back the banks the loan that Bain had taken. Sounds completely fucking ridiculous doesn't it??? Yet this is what he and numerous others at Bain and other similar Wall Street firms spent most of the last 30 years doing.
In doing so, manufacturing towns and jobs have disappeared and America is so completely fucked up financially right now. And this is who they want to run the country?!?!?!?
Romney has taken a shit load of money from struggling companies and the American people and then pays a minute amount back in taxes (13.9 percent to be exact, less than teachers, firefighters, cops, and nurses, actual important people) through some bogus loophole in tax laws. He doesn't see that he's done anything wrong because to him, exploiting the tax code is "entirely legal and fair". What a fucking joke! And the absolute worst and most sickening part of this is that NOBODY has called him out on this. He's fucking running for fucking President of the fucking United States!!! And he's got a GREAT chance of winning.
"Romney is the frontman and apostle of an economic revolution, in which transactions are manufactured instead of products, wealth is generated without accompanying prosperity, and Cayman Islands partnerships are lovingly erected and nurtured while American communities fall apart" (Taibbi, Rolling Stone 1165).
WOW Americans, wake the fuck up and actually think about then people you vote for! It SHOULD NOT just be "Oh, well I'm a Republican, so I vote Republican" what the fuck is that shit!?!?! Have a brain and think for yourself you dumbass. Romney is working his ass off to protect the US elite, the several billionaires at the top who profit off the misery and destruction of normal Americans.
I know very well that Obama really hasn't done a great job (because of the power of the Tea Party and stupidity of the entire US Political system... but that's another rant for another time). But Holy Fuck is he ever a better option than Douche Romney! This election in November is coming fast and America needs to act with their brains and elect a guy who does not profit on the destruction of the global economy. As a Canadian I can do nothing about this yet it will certainly affect the next few decades here on planet earth.
Get informed and read this article now: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-20120829 (don't worry, TMZ and the score in the game will be waiting for you...).
Get informed and read this article now: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-20120829 (don't worry, TMZ and the score in the game will be waiting for you...).
Wow this track is sick to write rants to!