Current Events > I bought, downloaded, and listened through the Bernie Sanders Folk Album

(+) Yeah! (+)

This is legitimately the most pure Bernie thing one might ever be exposed to. I don't think I've heard him sing anything he hasn't said in debates, policies, or statements of beliefs. At the very least, it's stuff you can 100% believe that Bernie genuinely believes.

Track Listing:
01 - Oh Freedom (feat. Nancy Beaven, Jon Gailmor & Danny Coane)
02 - The Banks of Marble (feat. Jon Gailmor, Pete R. Smith, Dick McCormack & Nancy Beaven)
03 - Where Have All the Flowers Gone (feat. Robert Sterzinger)
04 - This Land Is Your Land (feat. Jon Gailmor, Dick McCormack & Nancy Beaven)
05 - We Shall Overcome

I'm a bit of a sucker for how gospel music is sung, so I really liked the intro and outro tracks. The songs do kind of go on for a little too long. Overall I'd give the album like 7/10 if you like Bernie, a 5 or 6 if you don't.

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Wait, Sanders actually sings on this?

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pkmnlord posted...

Wait, Sanders actually sings on this?

'sings'

i wouldn't quite call it singing, but Bernie is always stuck in 'giving a speech' voice so...

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a relisten confirms the 7/10.

I do wonder why it hasn't found a place on youtube though. It has the preview video of the tracks, but the only versions of some of the songs is from the 1987 video, with questionable audio quality

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wackyteen posted...

'sings'

i wouldn't quite call it singing, but Bernie is always stuck in 'giving a speech' voice so...

So it's like political spoken word? lol

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So... is it redistributed to the masses, or is Bernie a hypocrite about this, too?

Questionmarktarius posted...

So... is it redistributed to the masses, or is Bernie a hypocrite about this, too?

you probably thought this was clever, didn't you?

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pkmnlord posted...

So it's like political spoken word? lol

Yeah

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Also if you go looking for it, you can walk away from the album with a weird sense of... Propaganda?

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