Appropriate for today for many reasons.

"Ship of Fools" -- World Party

#WorldParty #KarlWallinger #RIP

https://youtu.be/B2nCugGQZO0

Some of my heroes are ghosts... (Word play on Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here").

#KarlWallinger #SineadOConnor #KleeBenally #TheRevolutionLivesOn

"Well it's got nothing to do with anything that is real you just believe and it's true
It can soothe like an angel or sigh like a saint you can dream it and make it true
But you're gonna have to put away your illusions burn all your beads and your pearls
Turn the other cheek, stay straight a few weeks and get yourself into the world party"

Original lyrics from #WorldParty by #TheWaterboys (#MikeScott, #KarlWallinger).

"Now he's sitting in the gardens
As the acid rain comes in
He got it covered full of rhino heads
And boots of leopard skin

He got the means, he make the harvest high
But you can count those hungry people die
We're all at the mercy
Of the greedy man within"
- From "The Ballad of the Little Man, by #KarlWallinger, #WorldParty, 1986

http://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/3/great_gatsby

#TrumpSucks #FascismInTheUSA #Oligarchy #Oiligarchy #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #Greed

The Waterboys, This is the Sea, 1985 on Ensign / Chrysalis

This was the third studio album from The Waterboys, produced by Mike Scott and Karl Wallinger with John Brand and Mick Glossop. Includes one of my favorite Waterboys songs “The Whole of the Moon” but the entire album is wonderful.

It’s a bit hard to see in the photos but the Waterboys emblem / logo is imprinted on the cover as kind of glossy mask.

My copy is a 1986 reissue on Chrysalis labels – in the UK it came out on Ensign, which was sold to Chrysalis in 1984 – but it was also released in 1985 in the US on Island Records labels. Via Slipped Disc at a Mill No. 5 record fair.

#1980s #1985 #Chrysalis #Ensign #IslandRecords #KarlWallinger #LowellMA #MikeScott #MillNo5 #Reissue #SlippedDisc #TheWaterboys #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds

"He sold love away from his children's hearts
And told them it was sin
Now we're all at the mercy, we're all at the mercy
Of that little man within..."
- #KarlWallinger, #WorldParty, 1986

Can #empathy lead to sin? Some #ConservativeChristians argue it can

By TIFFANY STANLEY
Updated 5:20 PM EDT, August 21, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — "Empathy is usually regarded as a virtue, a key to #HumanDecency and #kindness. And yet, with increasing momentum, voices on the #ChristianRight are preaching that it has become a vice.

"For them, empathy is a cudgel for the left: It can manipulate caring people into accepting all manner of sins according to a conservative Christian perspective, including #abortion access, #LGBTQ+ rights, illegal immigration and certain views on #social and #racial justice."

https://apnews.com/article/conservative-christians-sin-of-toxic-empathy-c9ab96faf99605e010f487df61d92d8f

#WWJD #WWRWJD #WhatWouldJesusDo #ChristianCoalition #ChristianNationalists #Racists #Hatemongers #ProBirth

So, I don't know how long this will stay up on YT, but here's the "unrestricted" video for the alternate version of #WorldParty's #TheBalladOfTheLittleMan! (CW - Contains some graphic b/w imagery of Nazis and people starving.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU3M2anr6Dk&feature=youtu.be

#RestInPowerKarlWallinger #KarlWallinger #FridayNightMusicVideos #FridayNightJukebox #FridayNightMusic #PrivateRevolution #80sMusic #ResistFascism #Resistance #TrumpIsANazi

So, until I get #PeerTube figured out, I'll be using YT for a while longer. And to commemorate everyone standing up to #Fascism, my goal tomorrow (Friday) is to upload a rare version of #WorldParty's #TheBalladOfTheLittleMan that was made into an "age-restricted" video (which requires YT registration to view). If that doesn't work, I might try another platform (Vimeo or DailyMotion), but I'm sure due the controversial nature of the video, whatever platform I use, it probably won't stay up long. If I'm successful, I'll post the link using the hashtags below.

#FridayNightMusicVideos #FridayNightJukebox #KarlWallinger #BalladOfTheLittleMan #TheBalladOfTheLittleMan #ResistFascism

First up, a rare demo version of #WorldParty's "The Ballad of the Little Man"

"He was doing fine in '39
Thank God he did not win
He kept playing on his fiddle
As he watched old Rome cave in
He sold love away from his children's hearts
And told them it was sin
Now we're all at the mercy, we're all at the mercy
Of that little man within

Now he's sitting in the gardens
As the acid rain comes in
He got it covered full of rhino heads
And boots of leopard skin
He got the means, he make the harvest high
But you can count those hungry people die
We're all at the mercy
Of the greedy man within

So if you're feeling lonely, baby
If you're feeling blue
If you listen to your little friend
You know he'll tell you what to do
But if you hear his words and you get confused
Start believing they're all true
Then you have just been fooled again
Who said we won't get fooled again?
By the little man within..."

- #KarlWallinger, #WorldParty, 1985

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm6YuQdT8bQ

#LittleManWithin #Fascism #Nazis #TheLittleManWithin #80sMusic #TheBalladOfTheLittleMan #RevolutionDanceParty #Authoritarianism #FridayNightMusicVideos #FridayNightMusic #MusicVideos #FridayNightVideos #JukeboxFridayNight