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Musically I think in the sixties there were loads of songs reflecting viewpoints today I can't immediately think of any except perhaps rap or should that be spelt with a c.
Roy: Well, just for example, there's also Green Day's album named "American Idiot" - it's very far from rap anyway... not that i advise or recommend you to listen to it, but... just an example.

Cap, Roy?

Sorry Dane, but if you have a scratchy pot on your bass you are in the wrong topic. This is guitars not basses!

Tsk, tsk, Roy...I remember the old farts in the sixties hated everything about rock-n-roll: the sound, the clothing, the message, and how it made 'us kids' think and behave. We wouldn't want to become exactly the same kind of old farts for today's youth, would we?

If, as you're asserting, rap is the only music reflecting viewpoints at the moment, it could be because 'people of color' are the ones feeling the oppression most strongly right now, and are therefore compelled to speak about it. The sixties unfolded in precisely the same way...although, as Paul W. points out, the rest of us are starting to wake up a little...

Ooops, darn it! There I go again...it's worse than f***ing Tourette's Syndrome...

...as i once said to my father, "Hey, Dad, didn't your mother tell you, way back in the 60s, that your hair was too long and the music you listened to reminded of cats' meowing?"
As i pointed out already, not only rap, but sometimes modern "version" of punk rock bands too, Dane...

Alright, in the interest of lightening things up:

If you have scratchy pot problems, try not smuggling it in your underwear...

or, perhaps:

"I've noticed smoke coming from my pot...is this normal?"

Is is normal, but don't inhale!

I remember my EX-mother-in-law running into the room the first time I put "Subterranean Homesick Blues" on the old Zenith console.

"Who's calling that horse race?" she asked...

I suppose that I was one of the lucky ones, my parents were really into rock and roll.

My father insisted that I buy the 375 over a sonic blue Strat that I was interested in. Even though he was not a musician, he knew something that I did not at the time. Rickenbackers were (and still are) great instruments.

Peter...your kind advice has reached me too late, I'm afraid...

Let's not forget, in all of our happy (primarily Caucasian) bantering about it, who brought us Rock-n-Roll in the first place...not to mention Jazz and Rhythm and Blues...or, for that matter, rhythm, period...

The authorities hated the Waltz when it first caught on...I suppose I'm just the kind of guy who would have gotten myself arrested for 'swing dancing' on a German train in the '30's...

Should've seen my parents reaction when they got home from church early and caught me blasting "F*** You" by the Subhumans at full volume.

Lots of socially conscious music still out there, not even limited to rap or punk. Just stop listening to Kasey Kasem.

This affords me with an opportunity to present my Kasey Kasem joke:

"Honey, I'm home. Fix me a drink...and start thinking about a sexual position from 1963..."

Editor of Playboy magazine. Is that a sexual position?

I am not suggesting rap is the domain of Coloured Americans, hell those who bothered to vote just chose some white bloke from Liverpool performing rap as the UK's entry for that institiution called the Eurovision song contest.

I fully except that I may ell be out of touch with music of today and you know what I don't care. Perhaps I'm stuck in a time warp.

Man, the times they are a-changin', indeed... a bloke from Liverpool, huh...
Okay, Roy... if you weren't you, and if i weren't me, i'd probably say: "How can you say you don't care if you may not know well what you don't care about?" But... some young friends of mine (i mean about my age & sometimes even younger) tried to "teach" me into modern sounds aggressively ("You SHOULD listen to that, this is what EVERYBODY should listen to" etc) - and i sort of developed immunity for those "lessons", and i don't care. Gee... i wish i could be stuck in the 60s - or late 70s perhaps! (not that i totally ignore music of today, but for the most part, the modern music i listen to is 60s-fashioned...)