Territorial Pissings

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Nirvana 'Territorial Pissings'

Come on people now, smile on your brother and everybody get together, try to love one another right now
When I was an alien, cultures weren't opinions
Gotta find a way, to find a way, when I'm here Gotta find a way - a better way - I had better wait Never met a wise man, if so it's a woman(x2)
Gotta find a way, to find a way, when I'm hereGotta find a way - a better way - I had better wait Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you (x4) Gotta find a way, to find a way, when I'm here Gotta find a way - a better way - I had better wait
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Recorded right into the mixing deck during the Nevermind sessions, this song is a 2 and a half minute punk lambasting of the typical "Macho Man."

Along with "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Nirvana played this on their first Saturday Night Live appearance, after which they destroyed their instruments.

The beginning features Krist Novoselic singing part of the 1967 Youngblood's song "Get Together." "Maybe some baby boomers will hear that and wonder what happened to those ideals," said Novoselic. (thanks, Matt - Millbrae, CA, for all above)

Nirvana appeared on the British TV show Tonight With Jonathan Ross show and were told to play "Lithium." Instead they ended up playing this song before smashing their equipment and leaving the stage. (thanks, JT - Tullahoma, TN)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUPz3YWXIbI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnW31Emk4vM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la6KStpyehs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWHBz-5Vp2Y&feature=fvw

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Youngbloods 'Get Together'

Love is but the song we sing, And fear's the way we die
You can make the mountains ring Or make the angels cry
Know the dove is on the wing And you need not know why
C'mon people now, Smile on your brother Ev'rybody get together Try and love one another right now
Some will come and some will go
We shall surely pass
When the one that left us here
Returns for us at last
We are but a moments sunlight
Fading in the grass
C'mon people now,Smile on your brother Ev'rybody get together Try and love one another right now
If you hear the song I sing, You must understand You hold the key to love and fear All in your trembling hand
Just one key unlocks them both It's there at your command
C'mon people now, Smile on your brother Ev'rybody get together Try and love one another right now Right now Right now!
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This was written in 1963 by Dino Valenti (Chet Powers) from Quicksilver Messenger Service. He signed away rights to it when he was imprisoned for marijuana possession. The Youngbloods recorded it and gave the composer credit to Chet Powers.

When this was released in 1967, it flopped. It became a hit in 1969 when The National Conference of Christians and Jews distributed it to radio and TV stations to support "Brotherhood Week."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jnsrpbIvz8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtiCOKd3F7s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qNsqJeXjSM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjZcDGKnkqc
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Selling Kurt

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Semiotics
http://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/semiotics_and_ads/contents.html

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Sign => connotations, associations, meanings to us
Syntagm = group of signs (present)
Paradigm = related signs (not present)

From our experiencing groups of signs we form cultural expectations
These cultural expectations form Codes

When codes become stories we tell ourselves they become Myths

Myths are then principle in forming our belief system
Our belief system can be known as our Ideology

But our ideology can change as we incorperate new myths and or discount old ones.