Sixto Rodriguez-Establishment Blues

[95mundy5]

you know a song is brilliant when everything he has written about is still relevent 41 odd years later...only 16 yet listening to him makes me feel wiser and smarter than any "teeny-bop" these days. He was the lost Bob Dylan almost

[JackBurrows231]

@95mundy5 16 too man

[icpchic369]

this song is relevant with these wall st protests

[sagaza91]

Garbage ain't collected, women ain't protected

Politicians using people, they've been abusing

The mafia's getting bigger, like pollution in the river

And you tell me that this is where it's at

[Bundeisgn]

The systems gonna fall soon, to an early young tune. Occupy Wallstreet....

[NucDoc58]

THIS IS NOT A SONG IT'S AN OUTBURST: OR THE ESTABLISHMENT BLUES

Woke up this morning with an ache in my head

I splashed on my clothes as I spilled out of bed

I opened the window to listen to the news

But all I heard was the Establishment's Blues.

Gun sales are soaring, housewives find life boring

Divorce the only answer smoking causes cancer

This system's gonna fall soon, to an angry young tune

And that's a concrete cold fact

[ianjo10]

Forgot how much I enjoyed listing to Rodriguez. Friend gave me a tape in early 90s & somebody borrowed it.

[PinkcoltheGIRL]

AH to be 17 again

[SuperMaggie08]

yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy­yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy­yyyyyyyyyyy

[SuperMaggie08]

ghghtyh

[SuperMaggie08]

thats what i am talkin about,,,,,,,,,,yeah

[ScorpionJC7]

Funny he mentioned Rorschach test while I was starring at my bottle of ink, thinking about making some... WOAW

Good song.

Nothing really changes lol.

[ScorpionJC7]

Funny he mentioned Rorschach test while I was starring at my bottle of ink, thinking about making some... WOAW

Good song.

[mssssVicki]

first heard this man and his words in 1972 - started reading summaries of the recent Wikileaks and by the end I was humming Establishment Blues...and so it goes. Nothing is as it seems, except perhaps for the sweet smile of a baby and sometimes even that is just wind.

[iborrada]

I woke up this morning with an ache in my head, I spashed on my clothes as I spilled out of bed, I opened the window, to listen to the news, but all I heard WAS THE ESTABLISHMENTS BLUES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wikileaks is coming, the pentagon is running

the truth is slowly winning, dictatorships are falling

Theres a new booooooooyyyyy in town!

[1979rickfukingjames]

the systems gonna fall soon....

[mcspeel]

cmon now

[vaguelyhumanoid]

Nothing's changed, except the war's in the Middle East now and no one writes these awesome hippie songs any more. 

[Sanghoma]

@vaguelyhumanoid no.... the wars in the middle east have been happening for millenia

[mcspeel]

pleasent...

[holeinthehat]

2010 and what has changed............smokeing can harm your baby .....smoking kill.....butn still we smoke ,,,,,,,,,, talk of legalising the good stuff ,,,the green stuff hey!!!!!!!!!!.

[durbanoak]

crying shame this guy didnt go global...funny how only in sa???at least we were/are priviliged(spelling sux...too pissed too care)....to hear him

[Sanghoma]

@durbanoak he did well in Australia as well

[missinglina]

What?! And I don't know this cat? Impossible.

[rayochapin]

@missinglina Maybe he was hiding in your barn.. : D. Good thing you've found him right? Because this cat is cool...!

[GROUP1GAV]

Now this is a song! One of his best...

Woke up this mornin with an ache in my head... I splashed on my clothes as i spilled out of bed... I opened the window to listen to the news - but all i heard was the "Establishment Blues!!!"

[kungfujones1]

RON PAUL 2012

[nevilleprinsloo]

this guy rocks!

[hvdsss]

This is but only the BEST

[HeshPrinceOfBelAir]

such a sick song! kind of reminds me of a slowed down tombstone blues eh? maybe it's just me

[vinciboy715]

love this track awesome from a awesome album cold fact.

[EarpJohn]

This album is a masterpiece

Sixto I love you !

[jerryandauntie]

And you tell me this is where it's at?

[8shanzy8]

parents got me on him when i was like 10 im 22 now

[iloveknitting1]

brillant. thanks for posting. Same shit, different generation!

[dontfearthereefer85]

smoking causes cancer

[ehpl]

top banana - all the music and everything else - will one day help us off our arses to bring the changes we want to see.

[greenstarlite]

Incredibly intelligent lyrics. I was recently inspired to buy this album. Wickedly good..and timeless!

[BiGdigGa98]

my dad got me into this guy a couple months ago, some of the freshest, and realest stuff out there. love it

[nickersinatwist]

but frankly i couldnt care less, wicked song so true even our days

[runinwitdadevil]

This is thirty years old and is still relevant today this guy was well ahead of his time and is a lyrical genius, all you guys out there posting on youtube, much respect .

[Tzaosirus7]

One the best written tracks ever.... Why oh why id Rodriguez not on poster like Jimi, Jim, John, Kurt etc etc?

[64g15csr]

well frankly i couldnt care less

[MsKelliemaree]

new war in the far east; nothing has changed much do we ever learn

[luciacannella]

i dont think we do, really...

[gilbertosullivan01]

Ahead of his time, great.

[methuselus]

Gun sales are soaring, housewives find life boring

[stubrother]

not unlike "it's alright ma, im only bleeding"

[treadmill666]

couldn't agree more

[onlysativa]

krema!

[nickersinatwist]

this is the music i listened to with my mum on the way to long flat n.s.w Australia 25 years ago and thats still to young.

[MsKelliemaree]

good to see another aussie knows the good shit .

[ShowBizComic]

Grabbed my picket sign, protest buttons, leaflets, and ran out into the streets. Cop clubbed me on the head, arrested me and threw me in the paddy wagon. Flipped 'em a peace sign and he gave me the finger. Lord, I got's da anti-establishment, empty-pocket, nuthin' ta git high on, hippie blues.

[M15577]

@ShowBizComic

hardly ahead of its time mate, he was singing about real shit....

That was actually relevant to his time.

This wasn't meant to be some kind of crystal ball.

Thinks it probably more vise verse tbh.