'Open Your Eyes'

Actually, a corny song, complete with campy theatrics.

But then, with the level of political ignorance among today's youth, old Stiv might've been onto something.

The Lords of the New Churchs, "Open Your Eyes."

Video games train the kids for war. Army chic in high-fashion
stores.

Law and order's done their job. Prisons filled while
the rich still rob.

Assassination politics. Violence rules
within' our nation's midst.

Well ignorance is their power tool. You'll only know what they want you to know.

The television cannot lie. Controlling media with smokescreen eyes.

They play a politician's picture show. The acting's lousy but the blind don't
know.

They scare us all with threats of war. So we forget
just how bad things are.

You taste the fear when you're all
alone. They gonna git'cha when you're on your own.

The silence
of conspiracy. Slaughtered on the altar of apathy.

You gotta
wake up from your sleep. 'Cause meek inherits earth...six feet
deep.

Open your eyes see the lies right in front of ya.

Open your eyes...

Black Sabbath Tops Album Charts With '13'

At Telegraph UK, "Black Sabbath score first number one in 43 years":

They have waited nearly half a century for their big comeback but rock band Black Sabbath have shown musical “craft” can still beat “manufactured” pop.

The band has broken the record for the longest gap between number ones in the UK charts, as their album 13 reached the top this weekend.

It is their first studio album in 35 years, reaching number one an unprecedented 43 years after their last hit.

Ozzy Osbourne, the band’s singer now known for his reality TV show, has hailed the unexpected success and hinted it was an indictment of the industry today.

Saying the band “know our craft”, he condemned modern music as “all manufactured b------“.

“I'm in shock,” he said. “The success of this album has blown me off my feet. We've never had a record climb the charts so fast."

Continue reading.

Also at WaPo, "Black Sabbath to release new album, embark on world tour."

And at Rolling Stone, "Album Review: Black Sabbath, '13'."

Lady Gaga's Next Chapter

At New York Times, "Lady Gaga Has a New Album, 'Born This Way'."

And from the comments at Althouse:

Gaga: progressively more tiresome.

I'd say more like a cross between Madonna and the Spice Girls with some Marilyn Manson thrown in for good measure.

I posted on Gaga's "Judas" previously, and ace commenter Dennis was also unimpressed.

I Got No Friends 'Cause They Read the Papers...

Alice Cooper, "No More Mr. Nice Guy":



From yesterday morning's drive time, at The Sound LA.

Killer set, especially while getting slammed in some serious traffic:

9:37am You're My Best Friend by Queen

09:30am Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot

09:21am Mainstreet by Bob Seger

09:18am No More Mr. Nice Guy by Alice Cooper

09:15am Lady Madonna by Beatles (remastered)

09:12am Blue Morning Blue Day by Foreigner

09:05am Suite Judy Blue Eyes by Crosby, Stills, And Nash

09:00am One of These Nights by Eagles

08:51am Cold Shot by Stevie Ray Vaughan

8:46 - Empty Spaces / Young Lust by Pink Floyd

8:42 - Sunshine of Your Love by Cream

8:39 - Rock The Casbah by Clash

8:35 - Saturday In The Park by Chicago

8:26 - I Still Haven't Found... by U2

8:20 - Ready For Love by Bad Company

Disco Man — What Are You Doing, Your Life's in a Ruin...

The Damned are on Twitter, and the band's website's here.

Take my hand, disco man
Are you just a one night stand?
Have some fun, jump the gun
But what's left when it's all done
But who are you taking for a ride, disco man
Better to run or else to hide discoman, disco man
Tall and neat, watch his feet
Got the jist he's all complete
Understand discomans
Heading for the garbage can ....

What are you doing
Your life's in a ruin...

Where is the String That Theseus Laid...

How about some Gothic rock?

Bauhaus, "In the Flat Field."

A gut pull drag on me
Into the chasm gaping we
Mirrors multy reflecting this
Between spunk stained sheet
And odourous whim
Calmer eye- flick- shudder- within
Assist me to walk away in sin
Where is the string that Theseus laid
Find me out this labyrinth place

I do get bored, I get bored
In the flat field
I get bored, I do get bored
In the flat field ...

And for your reading pleasure, the blogosphere's top atheist, PZ Myers links: "New rules: there are some things you are not allowed not to say anymore."

From what I gather, this dude is an in-your face kind of atheist.

And to think: I thought the Elizabeth Edwards backlash had died calmed down. Obviously not yet, and she's moldering by now.