Bill Callahan "America!"
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- Опубліковано 18 лип 2011
- Music video for the song "America!" by Bill Callahan, from the album "Apocalypse" (2011). Video by Sterling Allen, Peat Duggins, & Ryan Hennessee of Okay Mountain. Video produced by Dave Bryant.
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Wild Wild Country brought Me here!
SteelerY360Nation me too
Hells yes
Me too.
He'll y❤️
Same here!
The way it was picturized in wild wild country was brilliant !
RIGHT
This is mesmerizing. So many years later, Bill Callahan continues to create music that is both individualistic and totally un-ostentatious. He's ambiguous, strange, and always beautiful and true. Thanks Bill Callahan.
"so many years" c'mon now, I was thinking I was being pretty contemporary listening to something only from 2011.
Really, I'd rather not. “So many years later” from when he began is career, is what the handsome Chris is saying.
Cant wait for the new album!
I love the simplicity of this song. It’s really good, thank you Netflix for showing me this song.
Wild Wild Country?
Yet another banger from Bill Callahan. Certified hood classic. As his progeny I can say that this man deserves everything he can get. Amen god bless aemrica
For some reason, what happened on the Capitol yesterday reminded me of this song.
This reminded me of a t shirt I saw: if you have a problem with this....🇺🇸...I'll help you pack
Who ever threw that cowboy hat put one hell of a spin on it.
'merica!
Vete a la verga teemo
7years later I know… some kinda strange pride ain’t it.
Every year around this time I get a chuckle out of this.
This is the most brilliant thing I've ever heard.
Golden voice.
My friend got me into this song years ago and I played it one time and my son (3 at the time) absolutely loved it. He's 7 now and now his baby brother who is 2 loves it. Gets played at least one a week in the house. Any time UA-cam puts it in my suggestions it's got to be played. This is not a complaint 😄
Bill wrote this after he was on tour in Europe and noticed a lot of anti-American sentiment. It's a celebration of American culture as well as a searing indictment of inequality within the nation ('the lucky suckle teat/others chaw pig knuckle meat') and it's past misgivings ('Afghanistan, Vietnam, Iran, Native American'). It seems he has a love/hate relationship with his country; he watches David Letterman in Australia , says it's 'grand and golden', but also sings about the wars and militarism inherent in American culture. This is written in a wry, ironical tone, like much of Bill's work. It can be compared to Springsteen's 'Born in the USA' in the way it critiques American militarism and imperialism.
There's also some degree of respect for the armed forces though in the segment where he lists famous country singers and their original military rank. I wouldn't say this reaches into Springsteen territory - there's a bit of having it both ways, but also showing how ridiculous the military gun toting mindset can go
I was trying to figure this song out and I think your commentary really got down to the bone. Nicely done ;)
We don't love our country, we love what it could be. I love my countrymen, but I hate my government.
Thanks fir the insight. I wondered what made him write this unconventional sounding gem. Thanks again
I think the line 'watching David Letterman in Australia' is about American cultural imperialism, and the stuff about Kristofferson et al is that they are notable for what they did as artists rather than anything they did in the military. I like the line about everyone being allowed a past... but they never talk about it; much as right wingers are trying to stop teachers telling pupils about slavery and genocide of native Americans.
This song is so simple but brilliant. Pure golden! I love it!
Wild Wild Country brought me here.
The music is something of the best. Provoking and thrilling.
I like the part where he says America.
murca
Bill Callahan is a brilliant electronic western musician.
Wild Wild West brought me here. What an epic song
Thank you Nicolas Jaar from years ago & Wild Wild Country to bring the tune back to memory.
This is the kind of song where irony meets reality. WTF, yet here we are. Thanks. Duke
Absolute gem.
Wild wild country brought me here
So reminds me of J J Cale's Troubadour- that guitar!
I hear some JJ Cale in this song
Well it's hard to rouse a hog in Delta-a-a
And it can get tense around the Bible belt-a-a
Nicolas Jaar brought me here.
Such a great video. After listening to this song a bunch I can't imagine a better video.
layers and layers of brilliance here. or maybe I'm reading too much into it. either way, always good to find a song like this. cheers.🤘
Love these Bill Callahan vids
I never served my country. AMERICA!
Ain't enough teat
Ain't enough t'eat
Awesome ❤
Beautiful song!
Dark Dark Dark song
Where can I hear more of that guitar solo
What brought me here-heard it on my local college radio station WIDR FM
love the Bill Callahan´s songs and the animation is really great!
As an American I love this. Points out the bad and the good. Amazing song
Sublime!
Man this is a great song. Why have I never heard it before?
Then I go to hit the like button. It's already blue. Huh. Ok, why didn't I remember hearing this great song?
really, really great
Thumbs up if the documentary on Netflix about Osho made you discover this great tune
NonDualiteit straight from Netflix 😀
It made me rediscover this jam! How rad is that soundtrack tho? Kevin Morby and Damien Jurado too!
haha yep
Just wish it was in Spotify
NonDualiteit yesss
EXCELLENT WORK.
Wild Wild Country
Belongs in the great American songbook with Cole porter
the best. aint enough to eat aint enough to eat aint enough to eat
Perfect vid for the song
This is so good.
really great
Thanks for the dance
GREAT video!
wow!
Something about the beginning of this song makes me really uneasy. Its a great song, great lyrics but something about it gives me the creeps. I was half asleep when watching Wild Wild Country on Netflix and this song woke me right up, and freaked me out. I dont get it.
i think that was done intentionally and i love it, almost like a dark subtone of america or something like that
@@Vultzzzz This is, imo, precisely the point of the dark ominous undertone of the song. "America" is golden as long as the lights are on and the roaches are hiding under the fridge.
@Thomas Hancock yes, great point. Its chilling.
Awesome video, sirs.
MMUUURRIIICCAAAA!!!
He put his foot in this.
Smog brought me here, and then Squid did... Boom for Real.
Brutal.
Are you deaf?
Yessuhh
Tune ! :)
fucking Masterpiece! 9.5/10 ! the documentary is GREAT!
Dammit, I was hoping Fritz the Cat would make a cameo. Great song and vid.
Hello its 2021 and this absolutely has a Crumb vibe
Love this animation, absolutely brilliant well done chaps!
America
America
America
America
You are so grand and gold, golden
Oh, I wish I was deep in America tonight
America
America
I watch David Letterman in Australia
Oh, America
You are so grand and gold, golden
I wish I was on the next flight
To America
Captain Kristofferson
Buck Sergeant Newbury
Leatherneck Jones
Sergeant Cash
What an Army
What an Air Force
What a Marines
America
I never served my country
America
America
Afghanistan
Vietnam
Iran
Native American
America
Well, everyone's allowed a past
They don't care to mention
America
America
Well, it's hard to rouse a hog in delta
And it can get tense around the Bible belt
America
America
All the lucky suckle teat
Others chaw pig knuckle meat
Ain't enough teat
Ain't enough teat
Ain't enough teat
Ain't enough teat
Ain't enough teat
Ain't enough to eat
In America
America
America
In America
Now
Mega Burner!
great
Darrel coopers Martyrmade podcast brought me here
Yup!
Did they collaborate? Much love to both of them.
Güzel parçaa netfilikş
POV: It's a later month in 2020, you're up late because you just discovered a documentary on Netflix called Wild Wild Country, got to the end credits of the first episode and the song caught your ear's attention, so that's what brought you here. And 2020 still sucks, but at least you're discovering new things to watch on Netflix still 🤷♀️😂🙃
All in all, like some comments said before me, this song gives me Springsteen's "Born In The USA" vibes. A love/hate of the country he calls home.
Man, I feel that. Sometimes I love it here, but literally 85% of the time I'm so ashamed that a majority of the stupidity in the world is congregated in this country, or so it seems anyways lol 😂🙃😂
pov. watched wild country the first day it came out. Not yet any websites with song info on the show. Year later watching Animals from h.b.o. Hear the song again and finally find it :)
Kinda like Rammstein’s Deutschland video
Happy July the 4th
Definitely not my cup of tea, but I can respect it
Wild Wild Osho
el mas odiado songwriter de América. y el mas mejor.
Martyrmade Podcast brought me here!
🚬✌🏻
Who's else got brought here by Wild Wild Country ???
Started out with WWC, then this, then wiki'd Kris Kristofferson's life, which was epic in it's own right.
What a fucking rabbit hole.
AMERICA!! F YEAH !!!!!!!!!!!
Prove to me that Mike Judge didn't have some influence on this.
Sheela and osho brought me here
WILD WILD COUNTRY
amiracla
There's pizza on the bottom of the ocean . . . that could be a song in itself, just sayin'.
Scribe 69 A country one.
native america
If this is your first time hearing Bill Callahan please do yourself a favor and listen to all of his Smog albums. It will change your life. Please thumbs up this comment if you know what I'm talkin about. AMERICA!
Hail rajneesh
Can anyone tell me what the lyrics implies?
Well it's hard to rouse a hog in delta
And it can get tense around the Bible belt
All the lucky suckle teat
Others chaw pig knuckle meat
It's reflecting upon religion and the racial tension in the South. Basically, it's difficult to wake those pigs (humans in the Bible belt).
All of the "lucky" sucking teat is a bit of satire - meaning that breast milk is the most human and organic way to go.
"Others chaw pig knuckle meat" is a reference to poverty and using all of the meat of the animal.
In the end, both are somewhat the same.
moon2SMUG
666th like \m/
Osho brought me here
HBO's Animals brought me here.
Rad
Osho is the best
Dédicace au gens de l'anglais approfondi à Val2
It only just now occurred to me that the beginning of the video was a copy of the start of Mj's Billy Jean. +1
Not really.
Did 21 Savage make this song?
first
Navy???
Lol good one!
Percent of nationals willing to fight for their country:
Pakistan: 89%
India: 75%
Turkey: 73%
China: 71%
Russia: 59%
US: 44%
UK: 27%
Germany: 18%
Japan: 11%
Source: Gallup
Who comissioned?
Turkey
66% of the U.S. population is overweight/obese. I'm going to go out on a limb and infer that more than a few of the Americans who said they 'would' fight are not physically able to actually do so.
44% seems high considering that "fighting for our country" has little to nothing to do with protecting our loved ones and our freedumb and everything to do with liberating resources for the corporate elite. ✌
Hell yeah! The United States rules.
Jeremiah Brittain it's not a love song