One of my favorite musicians is John Wesley Harding, whose song below should practically be the Slope anthem – sites like ZeroHedge and SOH dare to share the truth with a deluded world. Enjoy the music!
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
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A Young Girl Discovers the Slope of Hope
Bummer
I happened across this song today, which took me back to my childhood and the oh-so-bummer 1970s (maybe that's why my personality is so bearish……) It's amazing that a song like this was actually a hit. I guess it speaks to the social mood of the times.
Incredibly, the artist lightened up the lyrics to make them less suicide-inducing. ("Jacks' revisions tended to add a bit of ambiguity as to the nature of the storyteller's demise, allowing listeners the option to choose whether the death is from suicide over a failed life – quite possibly to escape drug addiction – or someone accepting death from natural causes, or cancer. References to a cheating wife were also removed.")
Cool and Appropriate 80s Song
My musical knowledge stopped building around 1991, and my favorite music is, of course, from the 1980s (I’m dating myself, I know; but it’s not like anyone else would date me).
I don’t have the actual music video – – embedding of it doesn’t seem to be allowed – – although I have fond memories of the bad-ass bald drummer wailing away in it. Here’s the music, though…..
UPDATE! A kind Sloper sent him the embed code for the actual music video – check it out!!
