Not In Our Name

Not In Our Name Artist: Various Artists
Label: Broken Arrow Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 736748100121
EAN: 0736748100121
ASIN: B0001J2IYQ


Release Date: 2004-02-17

Not In Our Name


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Tracks:

  1. Oh My God (Michael Franti & Spearhead)
  2. War (Jonatha Brooke)
  3. Evolve (Ani DiFranco)
  4. Pa'Lante (Ozomatli)
  5. Whoop-Ass (Charlie Hunter Quintet)
  6. I Don't Have a Car and I Live in L.A. (Los Pachanga Pistols featuring Omar Sosa, Greg Landau & Manny Martinez)
  7. The Calling (Martin Luther)
  8. Connection (Shana Morrison)
  9. Manzanar - Band Remix (The Looters)
  10. David Makalaster II (Les Claypool's Frog Brigade)
  11. Home (Garrin Benfield)
  12. Stay Human - Stereo Steambath Remix (Michael Franti & Spearhead)

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Album Description

A compilation CD benefiting the Not in Our Name organization.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Great cause, great concept, good cd.......2007-02-04

In this benefit cd for the anti-war educational project "Not In Our Name", a diverse group of musicians ranging from hip hop to folk music and jazz artists have contributed an excellent selection of songs about peace and social justice issues. Most of the songs are great, and a few I'd even say are outstanding. I love the songs from Ozomatli and Michael Franti & Spearhead. I didn't however care so much for the contributions from The Looters and Les Claypool. But with musical taste being so subjective, who knows, you just may love their songs. Overall, this is a really good cd and a really worthwhile cause. Check it out.

3 out of 5 stars This is not the place to go on a tirade.......2005-11-10

I don`t come here to read tirades such as Mr. Cornwhathisface`s. I come here hoping for honest reviews. Keep it up and I will be doing all of my book/cd shopping at Powell`s. Peace.

3 out of 5 stars i'm looking for a real review.......2005-02-12

Mr. Cornwhathisface needs to step back with his wacky commentary - which, i'd like to point out is not a review of an albumn, but a review of a people group and an ideology opposite his own (if he has one). His raving has nothing to do with the music and only his warped view of what art and being a responsible artist is all about. Since the time of Aristophanes, the artist has been about giving voice to the people - not everyone liked what he had to say, but it was his responsibility to say it.

3 out of 5 stars Who Asked You, Anyway?.......2004-12-02

"Not In Our Name." What a great opportunity for the following musical acts -- Michael Franti & Spearhead; Jonatha Brooke; Ani DiFranco; Ozomatli; Charlie Hunter Quintet; Los Pachanga Pistols featuring Omar Sosa, Greg Landau & Manny Martinez; Martin Luther; Shana Morrison; The Looters; Les Claypool's Frog Brigade; Garrin Benfield -- to let the rest of us America-firsters, red-staters and Christian anti-choice fundamentalists know that no, they did NOT authorize this war.

I was kept awake nights with one nagging thought tugging at my brain: "Gee. I wonder if Manny Martinez is for the war. Is Ani DeFranco for or against our bombing Baghdad? I've GOT to find out!"

Well, now we finally know where these folks stand.

How would you like to wake up to this kind of Kafkaesque nightmare: Suppose that George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld authorized American troops to invade and beat the stuffing out of some tinpot dictatorship, and you didn't hold a press conference or release a themed-CD disclaiming any involvement? Wouldn't you feel misrepresented, smeared?

At any moment, and without warning, peace activists at Berkeley, Madonna, Noam Chomsky or Jean Cretien could give CNN a live feed:

"We, the civilised narcissists of good taste and celebrity erudition deplore the unilateral actions of an ill-spoken American president, his war-mongering Secretary of Defense and his puppet Secretary of State, who have invaded a harmless third-world nation, Iraq, which is headed by a peace-loving and benign leader, Saddam Hussein. But, what is even more deplorable, more cynical and more heinous is that the American people, including Michael Franti, Les Claypool's Frog Brigade and Jonatha Brooke authorized this violent pre-emptive strike. They, too, have blood on their hands, as do Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, Sylvia Plachy and Michael Moore. We are waiting to hear from these complicit warmongers to account for their sins of omission."

As a working artist, I can empathize with them, knowing that at any moment any and all of us can be personally blamed for Dubya's wanton acts.

Think of how horrible it must be to hear Jello Biafra proclaim, appropos of nothing: "This illegal, corporate war was authorized by Mrs. Janet Rudebek, an art teacher, and her 32 finger-painting minions, who added dozens of propagandistic canvases to their fascist portfolio, as they told the war pigs, 'We Support You,' 'Come Home Safely, and 'God Bless America.' It's enough to make you wretch!"

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  1. Live in Seattle USA ~ The Ventures
  2. Drops of Jupiter ~ Train
  3. Story Of Simon Simopath ~ Nirvana (UK)
  4. Outlandos d'Amour ~ The Police
  5. Outstanding Performer ~ Roy Wood
  6. Naninani II ~ Yamataka Eye , and John Zorn
  7. Whose Dog? ~ Jack Waterson
  8. Electronic Tribute to the Grateful Dead ~ Various Artists
  9. Spring Fever ~ Rick Derringer
  10. Maria Fatal ~ Maria Fatal

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News on the Rail ~ Marty Ehrlich

Monk, 'Trane, Miles & Me ~ Larry Coryell

Past Present & Future ~ Chick (New Trio) Corea

Classic Encounters! ~ The James Williams All-Stars

Faded Glory ~ Acrophet

Compilasian: World of Indipop ~ Various Artists

Muse of the Round Sky ~ Paul Avgerinos

Got S & Dis-Star: Best of Zigzo ~ Zigzo

Ganbaru Shika Naisa ~ Taka

Attentat ~ Koffi Olomide