[Doly]

Put some techno - fits the mood while making an interesting contrast between high-tech electronic sounds and the basic behaviour exhibited.

[eastbay]

My vote is for Buddhist chanting in Sanskrit, or maybe Mandarin, either one done to traditional percussion. Maybe if there was enough such chanting we could find non-violent rather than violent paths.

... just a quiet suggestion of peacefulness from me to all of you...

[jato]

Anything by Rage Against the Machine.

[OneLoneClone]

The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash

or maybe

The Cat Came Back - many have sung it

[Novus]

This is why Peak Oilers aren't taken seriously. There are not going to be food riots probably ever. Yes we need oil to plant, harvest, and transport food but it is not that much considering how much oil we use for other things. We are NOT dumping millions of barrels of oil based fertilizers on our fields every single day. It is much less then that. Oil allocated for food production will be the very last thing that gets cut as our oil depletes and that event it probably 50 years down the road.

Real awareness of this issue needs to be spread, not hyperboley. Peak Oil is not about our energy supplies falling to zero overnight but the end of our infinite pro growth paradime. In the very near term people are going to have to learn to get along without growth. The two centuries of industrialized social injustice that has been justified by super fast growth is going to come due. Most Americans even though poor don't consider them selves poor. They only see them selves as not wealthy yet. That ideal will soon be smashed by the realities of living on a finite Earth.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', ' ')The two centuries of industrialized social injustice that has been justified by super fast growth is going to come due. Most Americans even though poor don't consider them selves poor. They only see them selves as not wealthy yet.

[smiley]

Sorry guys - on this issue there is no discussion possible

Dead Kennedys - Riot

Rioting-the unbeatable high
Adrenalin shoots your nerves to the sky
Everyone knows this town is gonna blow
And it's all gonna blow right now:.

Now you can smash all the windows that you want
All you really need are some friends and a rock
Throwing a brick never felt so damn good
Smash more glass
Scream with a laugh
And wallow with the crowds
Watch them kicking peoples' ass

But you get to the place
Where the real slavedrivers live
It's walled off by the riot squad
Aiming guns right at your head
So you turn right around
And play right into their hands
And set your own neighbourhood
Burning to the ground instead

[Chorus]
Riot-the unbeatable high
Riot-shoots your nerves to the sky
Riot-playing into their hands
Tomorrow you're homeless
Tonight it's a blast

Get your kicks in quick
They're callin' the national guard
Now could be your only chance
To torch a police car

Climb the roof, kick the siren in
And jump and yelp for joy
Quickly-dive back in the crowd
Slip away, now don't get caught

Let's loot the spiffy hi-fi store
Grab as much as you can hold
Pray your full arms don't fall off
Here comes the owner with a gun

[Chorus]

The barricades spring up from nowhere
Cops in helmets line the lines
Shotguns prod into your bellies
The trigger fingers want an excuse
Now

The raging mob has lost its nerve
There's more of us but who goes first
No one dares to cross the line
The cops know that they've won

It's all over but not quite
The pigs have just begun to fight
They club your heads, kick your teeth
Police can riot all that they please

[Chorus]

Tomorrow you're homeless
Tonight it's a blast

[threadbear]

How about MacDonald's---You deserve a break today, or anything by Roger's and Hammerstein. "These are a few of my favourite things" from Sound of Music springs to mind.

[pup55]

Ride of the Valkyries

I know it's too obvious, but I'm not showing up to your riot unless you play it.

[woodies]

Excalibur. hard trance version to contrast with the searing melody. some mdma would probably make riot more palatable, till the next day of course

[sameu]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jato', 'A')nything by Rage Against the Machine.

[seldom_seen]

I think The Clash put it pretty succinctly with Armagideon Time:

A lot of people won't get no supper tonight

It's not Christmas time
It's Armagideon time

[PrairieMule]

"When the Shit hits the fan"-The Circle Jerks
"Freeforall and Dog Eat Dog"-Ted Nugent
"Chain Reaction"-Journey
"Mean Streets"-Van Halen
"Loss of Control"-Van Halen first 30 seconds where everyone is screaming
Anything of Public Enemy's Fear of a Black Planet

[PenultimateManStanding]

This thread has wandered far from its original premise, which was to contrast ugly urban riots with lovely classical music. Now everybody is trying to match the music to the scene. Sensible, I suppose, but out of keeping with the sick humor of jenab. How about Gymnopedie by Erik Satie? Or Claire De Lune by Debussy?

[threadbear]

Classical, or just the most mismatched music? The theme music to Sesame Street would work, in that case.

[holmes]

summer breeze seals and croft.
I found it PMS!
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See the curtains hanging in the window
In the evening on a Friday night
A little light a-shining through the window
Lets me know every thing's all right

/ Em G / D A E C / :

{Refrain}
Summer breeze, makes me feel fine
Blowing through the jasmine in my mind
Summer breeze, makes me feel fine
Blowing through the jasmine in my mind

/ Am - Bm - / C - G - / :

See the paper laying on the sidewalk
A little music from the house next door
So I walk on up to the door step
Through the screen and across the floor

{Refrain}

Sweet days of summer, the jasmine's in bloom
July is dressed up and playing her tune
When I come home from a hard day's work
And you're waiting there, not a care in the world

/ Em C Em C / / Am - Bm - / /

See the smile a waiting in the kitchen
Food cooking and the plates for two
Feel the arms that reach out to hold me
In the evening when the day is through

{Refrain}

[PrairieMule]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'C')lassical, or just the most mismatched music? The theme music to Sesame Street would work, in that case.

[Jenab6]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'T')his thread has wandered far from its original premise, which was to contrast ugly urban riots with lovely classical music. Now everybody is trying to match the music to the scene. Sensible, I suppose, but out of keeping with the sick humor of jenab. How about Gymnopedie by Erik Satie? Or Claire De Lune by Debussy?

[eastbay]

Now everybody is trying to match the music to the scene.


... uhhhhh PMS... not "everybody."

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', 'N')ow everybody is trying to match the music to the scene.


... uhhhhh PMS... not "everybody."