A Special Place In Hell - Four Years Under the Boot Heel of George W. Bush

Bill Jabanoski | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 1, 2004)
• Original Release Date: September 1, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Niawt
• ASIN: B0002ZH3FI
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,019,576 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. In The Court of Mad King George

2. The Girls They Left Back Home

3. America’s Backyard Barbeque Parties, On Memorial Day

4. There’s A Special Place In Hell Waiting For People Like You

5. These Dead Soldiers Are My Only Friends

6. Death Is Never Far Away

7. Reinstitute The Draft With NO Exceptions (And Let’s See How Quick You Are To Go To War THEN)

8. The Death of The American Dream

9. Children In The Baghdad Morgue

10. The Flag Of My Country Is Burning

11. For Pity’s Sake

Editorial Reviews

About the Artist

"Roadkill" Bill Jabanoski {an affectionate nickname he picked up from friends in Key West for how much traveling he did and what he looked like when he came back from every corner of the globe}, probably best known, these days, for his hit CDS, THE KEY WEST PARTY CD and BEACH BUM BOOTLEG, is also the author of one of the most popular internet fiction columns in the world, ROADKILL WEEKLY, and known for the thousands of journalistic works he’s filed from everywhere from Southern Africa to the four months he spent reporting on the war in Iraq between March and June of last year. Although he was born and bred just outside of New York City, where he "cut his teeth" as a journalist as a crime reporter for one of the city’s dailies, he’s called Key West, Florida his home for over twenty years now.

Product Description

Be forewarned, those of you who love the tropical, beach bum side of, as he’s come to be known, "Roadkill" Bill Jabanoski. You won’t find any of the hilarious, wild, party songs on this CD that have made [rightfully so] discs like THE KEY WEST PARTY CD and BEACH BUM BOOTLEG such popular hit records. The man, the genius performer and songwriter he is, is almost an impossible contradiction, as anyone who’s ever listened to THE KEY WEST PARTY CD and FLOENCE MARTUS on the same night, or ever heard him on stage knows. One minute he’s Jimmy Buffett, as good as Buffett was in the seventies, the next he’s Bob Dylan in his early years, singing eloquently and angrily about racism, injustice, and political greed. However, though he may remind one of those performers, the style of his music and singing are always distinctly his own.

This CD is Jabanoski the pure political animal, writing and performing songs with all the passion, rage, and hellish vision in his soul. It is a cry from the soldiers stationed, and dying every day, in Iraq, who he spent four months last year living with, it is a cry from the impoverished, the unemployed, and the forgotten millions here at home, all of whom have fallen victim to a corrupt and disgraceful presidency. In combination with the publication of his first novel, SCARECROW, this October [also about the horror of George Bush’s Iraqi War], it is a cry for change in this country, one which I, and millions of others, hope will be heeded.

- John Kiley

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brains and Brave!, September 10, 2004

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Mike Swift - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Special Place In Hell - Four Years Under the Boot Heel of George W. Bush (Audio CD)

If anything this CD is EVEN BETTER than Steve Earle's "REVOLUTION STARTS NOW". Because as brilliant and brave as as Earle's CD is, he does some times come up for air with a non-political song like "I Thought You Should Know" or just the really funny "Condi, Condi" a seduction song to Bush's ice princess. None of that here. This is someone writing and singing from the point of someone WHOSE BEEN THERE. This CD is un-relenting. There isn't a moment where you don't feel and hear the suffering and pleading of our soldiers or of the "OUTSOURCED" unemployed or the Iraqi children we've MURDERED for Bush and Cheney's LIES. I don't think I've ever heard ANYONE sing as passionately about anything as this man does.
My first cousin DIED IN THIS WAR. NOT to protect our country. But for Bush and Cheney's LIES so that "they could make a killing, While our soldiers are wounded and killed in Iraq". Steve Earle is RIGHT in calling this "the most important election of our lifetimes". But I think Jabanoski puts it even better on his Roadkill Weekly website where he says "Vote for John Kerry as if the fate of your children, the fate of our nation, and the fate of the world depend on it. THEY DO".

35 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank You Bill Jabanoski For Caring About My Children, September 17, 2004

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JaneK - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Special Place In Hell - Four Years Under the Boot Heel of George W. Bush (Audio CD)

Like the last song on this magnificent and frightening CD asks "For Pity's Sake Don't You Even Care About Your Own Children, And The Kind of a World Their Going To Have To Live In?" Well I Do care about my children and their futures. And I thank you Mr. Jabanoski for caring about them Too. So much so that you and your fellow artist Steve Earle are willing to stick your necks on the line to try to protect them from the hell George Bush is turning this country and the world into. Like I think someone before me already said, if you can listen to "The Girls They Left Back Home" or "These Dead Soldiers are My Only Friends" and not want to cry, then you either don't have kids or don't give a damn about anyone but yourself or are just one of these horribly mean and only interested in yourself people like George Bush and Dick Cheney.

34 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Even BETTER Than EARLE, October 8, 2004

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Harrant (Durham, North Carolina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Special Place In Hell - Four Years Under the Boot Heel of George W. Bush (Audio CD)

This CD is even better than Steve Earle's GREAT "Revolution Starts Now" (although if you go into a voting booth this November without listening to BOTH of them, you're a damn fool) because as great as Earle's CD is, he never mentions Bush or Cheney or the rest (not counting the comical "Condi, Condi") by name.

Jabanoski NAMES them and calls them EXACTLY what they are and tells you EXACTLY what they've done. I guess that's why the only "radio friendly" song they play, even on ALTERNATIVE radio is "The Girls They Left Back Home" because it's simply a beautiful song describing the misery of the soldiers in Iraq but doesn't name Bush by name. Don't expect that from the rest of this CD. This is ABSOLUTE, balls to the wall FIERCE protest music. Forget the perfect yet simple production that made "Florence Martus" such an all encompassing work of genius. This is just a GREAT singer - songwriter who, not surprisingly because he's a journalist who went to Iraq, has seen it all first hand and is trying to SCREAM to you to change it. There isn't any end to the great lyrics, but the one's that keep haunting me are

"Why Didn't You Just Stay in Your Daddys' Rich Boy's Palaces
Instead of (screwing)Up Our World, You and Osama, Mr. President?
And I Don't Believe In Heaven or Hell, But You SAY That You Do
And There's A Special Place in Hell Waiting For People Like You"

And if you think THAT'S HARSH, try sitting through "Children In The Baghdad Morgue" or "These Dead Soldiers Are My Only Friends" without feeling like you just got punched in the stomach. This CD is a WAKE UP CALL, America!!!!

As for the music and singing, try to imagine Woody Gutherie, Dylan at his greatest, and Kurt Cobain UNPLUGGED fused together with Johnny Cash and you'll get an idea of how this CD will overpower you with its fury, its intelligence, and its crying out for HUMANITY.