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"Alice's Restaurant Massacree", commonly known as "Alice's Restaurant", is a satirical talking blues song by singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie, released as the title track to his 1967 debut album Alice's Restaurant. The song is a deadpan protest against the Vietnam War draft, in the form of a comically exaggerated but largely true story from Guthrie's own life.

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I probably heard this song the first time roughly around the age of 25 which was maybe some time after 2010-ish. It was when I really started my deep-dive into folk which was a heavy influence beginning with Arlo / Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and so fourth. This song really established my base (as well as the other aforementioned artist songs) of appreciated songs that were just peak, art.

[–] thisbenzingring 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I hate the song and one day when I was recovering from surgery I decided to watch the movie. JFC I was high and it was only fun to watch for the recording of the 1970s colors

I still think he should have gone to jail for littering! Those fuckers tossed a lot of shit out their car.

[–] lemmie689 4 points 3 weeks ago
[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Queues it up 3 times on the jukebox and leaves the bar

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I love this song lol

[–] happysplinter@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Except in Alice.

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

Am I right in saying that Rodney Alcala used part of this song when he took the stand in his own defense?