Monday, June 18, 2012

1000 SONGS - DAY 218 SONG #249

Day 218: Some versions of a song that combines a political message w/h the dancefloor

Inner City Blues (Make me wanna holler) is a song (co-) written and first recorded by Marvin Gaye. As there is a link to the Wikipedia-entry on this song to be found here, I do not need to explain it. It is simply great. Here are three versions (there are so many others I could have chosen, I apologise). The original by Marvin Gaye, maybe unmatched by any other recording of the song;  the cover  by Working Week, a neo-club-jazz-dance-combo from the early 80ies or so, and the one without words by the KING OF FUNK himself, Maceo Parker. You can dance to it, at least to the instrumental version by Maceo (which is really great'n'funky).



Rockets, moon shots 
Spend it on the have nots 
Money, we make it 
Fore we see it you take it 
Oh, make you wanna holler 
The way they do my life
Make me wanna holler
The way they do my life 
This ain't livin', this ain't livin'

Inflation no chance
To increase finance
Bills pile up sky high
Send that boy off to die 
Make me wanna holler 
The way they do my life 
Make me wanna holler
The way they do my life

Hang ups, let downs
Bad breaks, set backs
Natural fact is
I can't pay my taxes
Oh, make me wanna holler
And throw up both my hands
Yea, it make me wanna holler
And throw up both my hands

Crime is increasing
Trigger happy policing
Panic is spreading
God knows where we're heading
Oh, make me wanna holler

They don't understand Mother, mother
Everybody thinks we're wrong
Who are they to judge us Simply cause we wear our hair long





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