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Apr 22 2007

Top 100 Songs Countdown

according to Eric_Mack on his Lens

Here’s what he had to say about music of today and why he went with music from yesterday….

As you undoubtedly know, music today (for the most part) sucks. This stems from the fact that music hasn’t progressed at all since the Beatles. How do I know this? Because when I was 15 I heard the Beatles’ 1 CD, consisting of music made four decades ago, for the first time and absolutely loved it. Their music is entirely listenable because it isn’t really different than the music I was used to. It was just better.

#100: “Ohio” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Released as a single in 1970

More than anything else, I love what this song is about: the Kent State University shootings on May 4, 1970. The Kent State students were protesting America’s invasion of Cambodia and the Vietnam War in general when the Ohio National Guard shot four students and wounded nine others.

Tin soldiers and Nixon’s coming
We’re finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
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