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FreakerzBall t1_j1amr8h wrote

Reply to comment by ASecularBuddhist in The Band Aid song “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” is offensive, and that was before I saw the cover art 🤨 by ASecularBuddhist

Were you even alive in 1984? It was a global charity event. If you could do better, do it and stop ripping on stuff you're obviously clueless about. Merry Christmas.

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ASecularBuddhist OP t1_j1aof4h wrote

I live in an isolated West African village for two years, helping them with local health care delivery, but I don’t know if that would necessarily qualify as ‘doing it better.’

But I can definitely play drums better than Phil Collins did at that embarrassing performance without practicing. But if I got the gig, I would practice every single day until I had every single note exactly perfect.

Because it’s Led Zeppelin.

Merry Christmas ❄️

https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=Z5bH5jGhN_I&feature=emb_logo

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FreakerzBall t1_j1ap4sz wrote

Peace Corps? I think you need to consider that what we did in the 1980's, 40 years ago, with no internet, almost no cable tv, was an attempt to ease the suffering in Africa. If you can't find that in yourself, keep in mind that in 2062 some kid is going to shit all over your gen's good deeds.

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ASecularBuddhist OP t1_j1at3xt wrote

It definitely raised awareness of the suffering in Africa. Maybe even inspired me in someway to eventually do it myself to try to help out.

I dare you to take a look at that cover art though.

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FreakerzBall t1_j1avlex wrote

I did. I don't know that I remember it from 1984, but my school had a fundraiser for it, and we watched it at home on our giant 24" console TV. It was eye-opening to me, and a decade later I studied eco development in Sub-Saharan Africa.

I hadn't made that connection until now. Huh. Thank you for that.

The artwork was meant to be confrontational. Extremely so. It was the ME decade, and it was far too easy to focus on the cola wars and peak Spielberg, and ignore the news about tens of millions of humans at risk of starvation. The artists behind the event and album weren't pulling punches.

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ASecularBuddhist OP t1_j1awgj8 wrote

It’s a mixed bag.

And Phil Collins should’ve practiced 🤨

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FreakerzBall t1_j1bd5py wrote

F that guy. BOOM BOOM, BOOM BOOM, BOOM BOOM, BOOM BOOM... BOOM, BOOM.

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ASecularBuddhist OP t1_j1bl2rj wrote

It’s like being a piano player and being asked to play a Mozart piano concerto without knowing or looking at the music.

“I’m just gonna wing it. I mean how hard can Mozart be?”

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