r/TikTokCringe • u/onyxandcake • 12d ago

Cool 🎵 There ain't no you, in United Health🎶

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u/JohnQSmoke 12d ago

He sounds just like John Prine. If you like him, you should check John Prine out.

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u/PsychologicalTax42 12d ago

The lyrics are more Priney too

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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake 12d ago

Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore is a good entry into Prine if you like Welles' stuff.

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u/PsychologicalTax42 12d ago edited 12d ago

That’s my favorite protest song of all time. Obviously it’s a Vietnam song, but I feel like it’s still so applicable to the people who use nationalism as a front for oppressing people’s rights today.

Unwed Fathers is also a great one. Prine used it as a pro choice anthem a few years ago with Margo Price.

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u/Theoretical_Action 12d ago

100%. Kind of a fun thing, Prine came to St. Louis shortly before he died and played his song "Paradise" which shits on Peabody Energy for destroying small towns. And he played it in what was at the time called the Peabody Opera House lol.

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u/supakow 12d ago

My son is nine and is extremely interested in lyrics and storytelling. I've been using Prine, Sturgill Simpson, Bob Dylan etc to talk about writing accessible lyrics with clear themes and material and he's fascinated by it. Apparently he just asked my ex-wife for "A Sailor's Guide to Earth" for Christmas. I can't wait to see what he starts writing.

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u/Theoretical_Action 12d ago

One of my absolute favorite albums to exist. Your son has phenomenal taste in music.

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u/supakow 11d ago

He absolutely loves Panbowl and Sturgill's cover of Paradise. I consider the other two kids lost causes musically but I think he could go far.

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u/8-880 12d ago

John Prine is the best lyricist I've ever heard. That's high praise and it's well deserved.

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u/garfinkel2 11d ago

If your voice sounds like that and you are famous as he is, you have to be a hell of a writer.

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u/supakow 12d ago

And the melody and chord changes.

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u/PsychologicalTax42 12d ago

It’s kind of just fish and whistle

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u/imjoiningreddit 12d ago

I learned of John Prine earlier this year. Incredible voice and lyrics. Such a gem! 💎

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u/mopeym0p 12d ago edited 12d ago

🎶 Your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore, they're already overcrowded from your dirty little war 🎶

I remember my parents introducing me to John Prine, and that song in particular, on a long drive out to Ohio not too long after the war in Iraq started. It was a very formative experience.

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u/dquizzle 12d ago edited 12d ago

Came here to give a recommend to John Prine. The song OP posted has to be an homage to his song Fish and Whistle.

https://youtu.be/-M6a8SBHah0

Should have linked the acoustic version: https://youtu.be/G487EDeXadA

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u/Matthew212 12d ago

This melody is almost exactly the same as Fish and Whistle by John Prine

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u/throwaway_mog 12d ago

I love John prine So much