We Don't Measure The Blood We've Drawn Anymore

[queenbookwench]

Bruce Springsteen's album Magic, which came out in the early 2000s, feels uncannily, disturbingly relevant in 2020, from "Radio Nowhere" to "You'll Be Coming Down" to "Last to Die."

Especially that last one. I don't know if there are any fanvidders out there who have considered turning their skills to politics, but "Last to Die" would work really well for that, and I doubt Bruce would mind.

Frank Turner's _Be More Kind_, also currently in heavy rotation at Casita de la Bookwench, has several tracks that would do well too, notably "1933," "Little Changes," "Get Better," and "Brave Face,"

I texted likeadeuce on Friday night after I blithely went on social media right before bed and got slapped with the RBG news that "put on your brave face honey and get ready for the end of the world" had never felt more accurate.

The one I catch myself humming along to as I bike commute, though, is "We can get better/because we're not dead yet."

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[likeadeuce]

<3<3

[starlady]

Bruce has this trick of writing albums that are underappreciated when they come out because they're 20 years too early. The Ghost of Tom Joad was met with shrugs at the time but after the 2008 recession it was eerily apt. (Rage Against the Machine does not cover your song if you aren't going hard!)

That said, I was planning a Captain America vid to "Livin' in the Future" for quite a long time. Maybe in 2021 I'll feel able to make it.

[likeadeuce]

'Livin in the Future' was the one that gut punched me when i listened to it again in 2017. How little we knew