My Top Ten Songs For Idiots

This week, ten songs dedicated to idiots everywhere. Especially those in positions of power. Because, like a lot of people in the UK right now, I'm angry.

We need Woody Guthrie's guitar more than ever, it seems.

I think I'm going to let the songs do the talking this week...



10. NOFX - Idiots Are Taking Over

There's no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated
Political scientists get the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred
Majority rule don't work in mental institutions
Sometimes the smallest softest voice carries the grand biggest solutions

9. Meat Puppets - Hour of the Idiot

This is the hour of the idiot
That was a time when the crime could take command
This is the mirth of human brilliance
A wonderful hour of the idiots at hand

8. John Wesley Harding - Idiot's Delight

Power's aphrodisiac, addicts die of thirst
The new El Presidente saw his bubble finally burst
And the king returned from exile, by request to break the curse
He fulfils election promises with temporary cures
And everything's worse than it once was without the same allure
And his stepson is on squad inspection making overtures
It's alright
It's alright
It's alright tonight
Because it's all performed for the idiot's delight
It's all performed for the idiot's delight
Because it's all performed for the idiot's delight

Power's aphrodisiac, addicts die of thirst
The new El Presidente saw his bubble finally burst
And the king returned from exile, by request to break the curse
He fulfils election promises with temporary cures
And everything's worse than it once was without the same allure
http://www.lyricsofsong.com/w/kjmlji
And his stepson is on squad inspection making overtures
It's alright
It's alright
It's alright tonight
Because it's all performed for the idiot's delight
It's all performed for the idiot's delight
Because it's all performed for the idiot's delïght

Power's aphrodisiac, addicts die of thirst
The new El Presidente saw his bubble finally burst
And the king returned from exile, by request to break the curse
He fulfils election promises with temporary cures
And everything's worse than it once was without the same allure
http://www.lyricsofsong.com/w/kjmlji
And his stepson is on squad inspection making overtures
It's alright
It's alright
It's alright tonight
Because it's all performed for the idiot's delight
It's all performed for the idiot's delight
Because it's all performed for the idiot's delïght

Power's aphrodisiac, addicts die of thirst
The new El Presidente saw his bubble finally burst
And the king returned from exile, by request to break the curse
He fulfils election promises with temporary cures
And everything's worse than it once was without the same allure
http://www.lyricsofsong.com/w/kjmlji
And his stepson is on squad inspection making overtures
It's alright
It's alright
It's alright tonight
Because it's all performed for the idiot's delight
It's all performed for the idiot's delight
Because it's all performed for the idiot's delïght

7. The Auteurs - Idiot Brother

They were keen philosophers
They were keen on hurt
They were like a pair of dumb dogs
Rolling in the dirt

You and your idiot brother
Waiting in the wing
Which one holds up the other?
Which one pulls the string?

6. Jane's Addiction - Idiots Rule

I got a lie
A fat fuckin' lie
About a law
Idiots obey
They made it easy
Now cheaters have their way
You hi-di-ho's
You're living on your knees

5. Green Day - American Idiot

Headline from The New Yorker on Friday: 

British Lose Right to Claim That Americans Are Dumber

Take it away, Green Day...

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alienation.
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.

4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Idiot Prayer

If you're in Heaven then you'll forgive me, dear
Because that's what they do up there
If you're in Hell, then what can I say?
You probably deserved it anyway
I guess I'm gonna find out any day
For we'll meet again
And there'll be Hell to pay

3. Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind

It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us apart
You tamed the lion in my cage but it just wasn’t enough to change my heart
Now everything’s a little upside down, as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped
What’s good is bad, what’s bad is good, you’ll find out when you reach the top
You’re on the bottom

2. Radiohead - Idioteque

Who's in bunker, who's in bunker?
Women and children first
Women and children first
Women and children...

We're not scaremongering
This is really happening, happening
We're not scaremongering
This is really happening, happening

1. The Supernaturals - Idiot

Don't agree with this post? I'll let the Supernaturals answer that one...

So don't think that you will get an apology 
'Cos that's the last thing you'll get out of me...

Of course you're entitled to your opinion. I'm just letting off steam through music. And like the Supernaturals say... I'm just an idiot, sweetheart.

But at least I know it...