My City Was Gone

PissBottleMan

I have to travel quite a bit from city to city during the day so I listen to a lot of talk radio.

Usually, I stay on ESPN radio and listen to "The Herd" or "The Dan Patrick Show".

However, whenever they go into commercial, I flip over and listen to the conservative talk radio station. I've noticed that Rush Limbaugh uses My City Was Gone as a bumper back into his program a lot.

I actually just downloaded it off iTunes as it's been stuck in my head for the past 3 days.

It's strange to me, concidering Chrissy's stance on certain issues, that Rush uses this song so freely.

It's now become one of those songs that I associate with Rush. :(

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libragirl

News Radio was a good show...


http://www.amazon.com/NewsRadio-Complete-First-Second-Seasons/dp/B0000ZMH8S/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/104-6941931-1660748?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1175090388&sr=8-2

tybird

That could be a sign that Chrissy does not have control over the licensing of her back catalog?????

PissBottleMan

tybird wrote:

That could be a sign that Chrissy does not have control over the licensing of her back catalog?????

My thoughts were:

a.) Since it's a bumper (less than 30 seconds), it's fair game to use

b.) If she does give permission, she sees it as getting money from right wing radio (which, she in turn, could donate to charity).

I'm going to look into this a little more...it's just a little interesting.

I associate that song with Rush a lot...I wouldn't think Chrissy had that in mind when she wrote it.

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PissBottleMan

It's from Wiki...so take it with a grain of salt:

"The message of the song, interpreted by conservative listeners as a stab at the problems associated with changing American values, was used without permission for many years. After some negotiating Hynde decided to let Limbaugh continue to use it, with Hynde donating royalties received from Limbaugh to the animal rights organization PETA."

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libragirl

It's messed up what happened to Phil Hartman...

another good season to check out

http://www.amazon.com/NewsRadio-Complete-James-Burrows-II/dp/B000DZ854A/ref=pd_bbs_4/104-6941931-1660748?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1175091585&sr=8-4

tybird

PissBottleMan wrote:

It's from Wiki...so take it with a grain of salt:

"The message of the song, interpreted by conservative listeners as a stab at the problems associated with changing American values, was used without permission for many years. After some negotiating Hynde decided to let Limbaugh continue to use it, with Hynde donating royalties received from Limbaugh to the animal rights organization PETA."

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Egads, Rush, quit using it if PETA is getting the loot!!!! P.S. I don't like PETA

PissBottleMan

tybird wrote:

I don't like PETA

I understand the dislike...there are extremists. However, I think they're are some really intelligent, level headed folks within PETA that want to see better regulations in the meat industry.

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tybird

PissBottleMan wrote:

I understand the dislike...there are extremists. However, I think they're are some really intelligent, level headed folks within PETA that want to see better regulations in the meat industry.

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I know that we part ways on this issue....better regulations in the meat industry is a good goal, but there are other PETA efforts that I strongly with which I disagree.

PissBottleMan

tybird wrote:

but there are other PETA efforts that I strongly with which I disagree.

There are going to be folks like that on just about every issue.

However, if memory serves, Chrissy is pretty active (i.e. being arrested) with PETA.

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libragirl

Wikipedia isn't an accurate source. There was a story on the news how a lot of students are using it for research papers and wind up finding a lot of wrong info.

PissBottleMan

libragirl wrote:

Wikipedia isn't an accurate source.

Yeah...that's why I wanted to preface my post with a warning about where it came from.

I will try to find a more concrete source.

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PissBottleMan

http://www.nndb.com/people/428/000022362/

Since Limbaugh's Sacramento days, his show's theme song has been an endless bass-beating loop snipped from a 1984 song by The Pretenders, "My City Was Gone." The song, though, has potent and openly liberal lyrics, written by Chrissie Hynde to protest over-development: "I went back to Ohio / but my pretty countryside / had been paved down the middle / by a government that had no pride." Limbaugh never sought permission to use the music, never paid royalties, and Hynde, living in England, heard only occasionally about her song's hijacking. She had no comment until 1997, when Limbaugh answered a reporter's question about the song by explaining that it was "icing on the cake that it was [written by] an environmentalist, animal rights wacko and was an anti-conservative song. It is anti-development, anti-capitalist, and here I am going to take a liberal song and make fun of [liberals] at the same time." Upon reading that, Hynde had her representatives contact Limbaugh and demand payment. At Hynde's request, Limbaugh's royalty checks for using her song are now made payable to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

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