June 08, 2004

B-movie

Posted by Chris

Well, the first thing I want to say is.”Mandate my ass!”

The demise of Ronald Reagan made me dust off my copy of the magnificent Gil Scott-Heron’s B-Movie/R-Ron (double-A-side-single). I’ve not managed to find even the lyrics to Re-Ron anywhere on the web, but B-movie is here (right sidebar) and you can download the music too (with what legality I can’t say).

Posted on June 8, 2004 08:00 AM UTC
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Reagan won the U.S. presidential election in 1980.

This Ronald Reagan story is Crooked Timber story 1980 (001980.html).

Spooky!

(I hope story 001984.html is about him too!)

Posted by q · June 8, 2004 02:32 PM

That’s a great song, but in the version I have the lyrics are a bit different (I have a cassette copy of a live version from the “Tales of Gil Scott Heron” album — simply awesome). I’ll try to track that cassette down (then see if I still have a cassette player to play it on) and reproduce the lyrics here.

Posted by Jeremy · June 8, 2004 03:43 PM

Is Crooked Timber the clearinghouse for everything Hungarian on the web?

Posted by Kenny Easwaran · June 9, 2004 03:00 AM
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