Singer/songwriter Mike Doughty has released a music video for his second single “
“Fort Hood†Streaming Video:
Windows:
http://easylink.playstream.com/ato_records/md_fort_hood_128.wvx (lo)
http://easylink.playstream.com/ato_records/md_fort_hood_300.wvx (hi)
Quicktime:
http://easylink.playstream.com/ato_records/md_fort_hood_128.mov (lo)
http://easylink.playstream.com/ato_records/md_fort_hood_300.mov (hi)
Audio intro from Mike:
Windows:
http://easylink.playstream.com/ato_records/fort_hood_intro_lo.wax (lo)
http://easylink.playstream.com/ato_records/fort_hood_intro_hi.wax (hi)
Quicktime:
http://easylink.playstream.com/ato_records/fort_hood_intro_lo.mov (lo)
http://easylink.playstream.com/ato_records/fort_hood_intro_hi.mov (hi)
Download Mike Doughty photos and the Golden Delicious press release and cover art here:
http://www.specialopsmedia.com/assets/ATORecords/MikeDoughty/MikeDoughtyAssets.zip
Mike Doughty discusses his song “
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The first verse is about guilt. That I can go about my daily life without thinking of the violence and the fear in
The first part of the second verse is about frustration with political pissing matches, instead of unity among our elected representatives to serve these guys. The second half is about how the war haunts me; how I see dudes in uniform in airports and wonder what’s going on in their heads, what they’ve witnessed.
The bridge is about lost innocence. The lyrics are about what I wished a guy in his 20s was doing instead of being scarred by a fucked-up war. One line is, “You should blast Young Jeezy with your friends in a parking lot.” I changed it from “You should blast Toby Keith with your friends in a parking lot” — mostly for reasons of singability. But also because I realized everybody would take it as a snobby dis on the soldier. I actually meant it in passionate sympathy; it’s better to be a teenage jingoist than to come back with your consciousness or body shattered, knowing the tragic naivete of jingoism. Young guys go over there and come back scarred — bodily, often, but also psychologically, such that so many of them will have the burden of post-traumatic stress disorder, nightmares, haunting images.
I grew up an Army brat on Army bases — pretty much all the adult men had been in
My dad never talked about
The genesis of my song was: I downloaded from WFMU.org an mp3 of the Japanese cast of Hair doing “Sunshine.” It was surreal and fun through the verses, which were in Japanese, but when it came to the end, the chorus was in English — it was chilling, and so apt, and my eyes moistened up on the subway.
I moved to
Official Site:
http://www.mikedoughty.com   Â
MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/mikedoughty
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