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Re: N.C.'s official state rock song?

gstead25 — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:44:07 -0400

Gone to Carolina -- Shooter Jennings

Re: N.C.'s official state rock song?

claymaniac — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:55:51 -0400

Oh My Sweet Carolina by Ryan Adams

Re: N.C.'s official state rock song?

MelodyLynn — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:33:29 -0400

Southern Culture on the Skids!

Re: N.C.'s official state rock song?

dahedgehog — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:09:51 -0400

Raise Up!!

Petey Pablo - Raise Up
by Mustafu

Re: N.C.'s official state rock song?

Gosh — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:41:06 -0400

Re: N.C.'s official state rock song?

jonathanl — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:12:02 -0400

I see a few possibilities:

Angels of Epistemology: "Vile and Disgusting/William Campbell"
Chew Toy: "You Smell, and I Love You"
Flat Duo Jets: "Theme for Dick Fontaine"
Pressure Boys: "Where the Cowboys Went"
Blue Chair: "Punkrocksnotdeadjustyourbrain"

Actually the best choice might be Eugene Chadbourne's "Constellation 'Rake'":

Re: N.C.'s official state rock song?

scharrison — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:33:54 -0400

Well, it's more folk than rock, but...

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Re: N.C.'s official state rock song?

iamjoed1 — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:33:35 -0400

Highway to hell by AC/DC.

Re: N.C.'s official state rock song?

Gosh — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:05:27 -0400

Any cover by Sha Na Na. Imitation is the best form of flattery, and we fake it real good.

Re: Confusing excerpts, RTB

Isaac136 — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:47:02 -0500

You can appreciate, I'm sure, that without knowing a person or his/her background well, one could not readily assume that s/he is being sarcastic on such a subject.

And anyway, I think ya stuck it in here to rile up some traffic from your more reliable die-hard Southerners in here.

Re: Confusing excerpts, RTB

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:02:03 -0500

Apologies. She's parroting the line of argument that she's attacking. It's meant ironically, or at least sarcastically.

— RTB

Confusing excerpts, RTB

Isaac136 — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:59:12 -0500

I'm not entirely sure from the excerpts whether it is the Florida professor or Kromm of the Institute of Southern Studies or perhaps someone either might be addressing who who seems to indicate that the South can be defined by its stereotypes, but that's the impression I get when I hear derisive references to an "anti-education" outlook and Jesse Helms. I've been as critical of Helms as anyone else, but the suggestion that he actually despised universities, labs or libraries or that Southerners don't "cotton to book learning" tells me that the commenter is more interested in dwelling in stereotypes than serious contemplation of what the South is, was or is becoming.

It reminds me a little bit of African Americans being told they aren't "black" if they don't speak a certain jargon or hold a specific political perspective. It isn't that a given person isn't African American (or that North Carolina isn't in the South); it's that the person making that suggestion is him or herself lacking in perception of what it means to be an African American or what it means to be part of the South.

The quotation marks around the text in blue suggest that those are the remarks being quoted from Kromm. Is the final paragraph in blue (which is not contained in quotation marks) from Roberts?

The New South Meets The Greater Depression

AquaMan — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:57:18 -0500

a lot of the transplants who moved here during the boom years are now leaving beause of the collapse of the job market.

Re: Hagan did well in California, Act Blue

greenswamp — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:48:43 -0500

Again, she was not privy to the whole proposal. My comment was not to attack Dole, but to point out the qualities of Hagan. When you start bringing out the old talking points and hot button issues of the campaign, then meaningful dialogue ends there.

Re: Hagan did well in California, Act Blue

CitizenOpinionated — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:52:36 -0500

The same due diligence she took on her position on the first bailout...wait until the vote was already cast and Chuck Schumer could call her to make sure her stance was one of political value. By the way...what campaign were you watching...Kay Hagan is the opposite of an academic that studies the issues. She voted 99% of the time with Marc Basnight...she is nothing more than a pawn. A good academic would have never traveled to Boston to accept the Godless America money, given the Dole campaign showed their cards three weeks prior. Plus...she should not be making her votes based on her opinion...rather the opinion of us North Carolinians...