The Only Survivor of the National Peoples Gang...

Legend has it that David Bowie wrote "Panic in Detroit" - one of the great hard-driving masterpieces of Bowie's 1973's Aladdin Sane - in homage to Iggy Pop's tales of urban revolutionaries during the late-'60s riots in Detroit. The studio recording is miles-away better than live cuts, so please enjoy this YouTube montage featuring an iconographic history of the song's origins and impact:

Police departments across the country are readying for urban unrest on Tuesday, which may be triggered by the dramatic circumstances surrounding this year's election (a close Obama defeat with electoral irregularities is my worst case scenario for violence).

I've been listening to the song quite a bit during my morning drive-time (thinking of all the crazed Obamaniacs in a panic across the land), so now's as good a time as ever to post it:

Ah oooh...
He looked a lot like che guevara, drove a diesel van
Kept his gun in quiet seclusion, such a humble man
The only survivor of the national peoples gang
Panic in detroit, I asked for an autograph
He wanted to stay home, I wish someone would phone
Panic in detroit (oh oh oh aahh, oh oh oh aahh)...

I'll have more tomorrow, dear readers.