Comments on: ‘We’ve Lost More Than We’ll Ever Know’

By: Michael Ruskin

Michael Ruskin — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:59:51 +0000

Excellent choice of music. I appreciate the sentiment, would have never discovered them! Also congratultions on a very interesting site.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:54:43 +0000

Your description of “Roots” is a little off. The singer isn’t lamenting that English culture/music is being replaced by Afro, Celtic and Asian music/culture.

Instead, he respects the fact that those groups still have some connection to their traditional culture and can “dance all night long” to their music, and why can’t the English have something like that.

Just thought I’d point that out. They’re all great songs.

By: Charles A. Coulombe

Charles A. Coulombe — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:58:03 +0000

Great stuff!

By: Jason Reese

Jason Reese — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:17:35 +0000

I think the end of Degeneration is important too. Reactionaries all to often are portrayed as dour but the celebration of partying in the last stanza is closer to the truth. As a Southern Catholic, I have always been intrigued by the Quebecois.

By: gabriel

gabriel — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:48:51 +0000

I’m enormously grateful for you bringing Dégénération to my attention. It’s heartbreaking, but enormously encouraging that it seems to have struck a cord with my countrymen in Quebec.

By: Andrew Cusack

Andrew Cusack — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:40:50 +0000

Then again, you are probably the only Jewish Communist who’s been to a Latin Mass!

By: Andrew Cusack

Andrew Cusack — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:38:09 +0000

Simon, surely as a Jewish Communist you must object to the terribly Catholic reactionary thoughts expressed in such a song?

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:48:20 +0000

A pub which installs televisions ceases to be a pub. 'Tis then a bar, which is a different place entirely. I once read an essay by Michael Aeschliman entitled "The Cold Grey Glow." It describes the decline of hospitality which followed the introduction of television into a small European village. The sterile buzz and glow of the machine soon replaced the art of conversation and the cozy light of the hearth fire. Josef Pieper even goes so far as to suggest that "the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul"

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:11:30 +0000

degeneration is a great song. I’m glad it’s being noticed outside of Quebec

By: Athos

Athos — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:24:32 +0000

C. S. Lewis’ prescient vision of the N.I.C.E. taking over and “sanitizing” England in That Hideous Strength is shown to be spot on. May all the “St-Anne’s-on-the-Hill” rebels, musicians, and worshipers keep faith, hope, and charity well and alive.