Some personal favourites of mine:
- The masochism tango
- Vatican rag
- So long mum
- Wernher Von Braun
- Who's next
Funny guy, seemed like someone who wanted people to basically be decent to eachother and not get bent out of shape over propaganda. Naturally that meant he was highly controversial in his time.
I just can't get over the line from one of his live performances: "China, who we call 'red' China, exploded a nuclear bomb, which we called a device"
I don't think I've seen as pithy a skewering of the insane distortions of red scare era propaganda.
RIP to Tom
iirc he stopped performing when they gave kissenger the nobel peace prize, saying: satire is dead
Nooooooo
I knew this was coming but damn this guy was so cool
Yeah I thought he put his work into the public domain and then kicked it a couple months later.
You can really draw a straight line from the Cold War gallows humor of Tom Lehrer through the “Dirtbags” to Hexbear.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
