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6. It was released in 1986

Reply to keep_left (Reply #5)

Mon Nov 18, 2024, 08:01 AM

Nov 18

From Rolling Stone:

Jimmy Guterman, in his 1986 Rolling Stone review of the Lives in the Balance album, wrote approvingly of the lyrics of the song: "For Browne, our crimes in Central America are the clearest example of the wrongheadedness of U.S. foreign policy. 'Who are the ones that we call our friends?' Browne asks on the scathingly trenchant 'Lives in the Balance' and sadly answers himself: 'Governments killing their own.'"

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Jackson Brown - Lives In The Balance [View all] surfered Nov 16 OP

Oh how I wish this were less on point Easterncedar Nov 16 #1

I had forgotten it, too. Sadly, it will always be timely surfered Nov 16 #2

The lines about selling us a president are devastating Easterncedar Nov 16 #3

It's shocking and disappointing surfered Nov 16 #4

Didn't this come out during the time of the Reagan administration's adventurism... keep_left Nov 17 #5

It was released in 1986 surfered Nov 18 #6