17th July, 2006
Music Monday #7
Monday, 10:44 pm in Music
So the whole world is going to hell in a handbasket. It would be so much easier if it were demons or aliens, but instead the only ones we’ve got to blame for all the shit are ourselves. I think that in lieu of writing about the dawning of World War III, I will instead continue on with the regularly scheduled Music Monday. This week’s theme? Songs to end the world by.
31. Van Morrison, “Bright Side of the Road”
Yeah, into this life we’re born
Sometimes we don’t know why
It seems to go by so terribly fast
In the the twinkling of an eye
No matter what portable media player I happen to be currently using, it always has this track on it. Just so that when the Ragnarok/Apocalypse/Armageddon comes, I can hike up to the top of th nearest hill, jack the sound up really loud and dance as the flames come down. Incidentally, this is not quite as far-featched as it sounds. Several years ago, we had some very, very bad bushfires race through the city; so bad, in fact, that the sky turned literally black in the middle of the day. From our upstairs back porch, under the bloody red sun, we watched the fires come up behind and eventually over Mt. Taylor; the hill I used to walk up as a child when we lived in our previous home. The radio was tuned to the local ABC, and in between the air-raid sirens announcing the suburbs to be evacuated they played music like this. If the world is going to end, you might as well kick back and enjoy it.
32. TISM, “Greg! The Stop Sign!” (watch)
So kids, yeah, you can do it; you can be your best
Girls can do anything; you can pass the test
I’m okay, you’re okay, we’re okay, we’re fine
I thought I heard a semi-trailer
“Greg, you missed the stop sign!”
Many, many years ago (about the time this song was written, in fact) there was an ad on TV showing a young couple in a car getting wiped out by a semi-trailer after not stopping at a stop sign. The title of the song was what the girl in the car yelled to the driver. A song about fatalism.
Ask not what you can do for your country,
ask what your country did to you.
The only reason you’re still alive
is because someone has decided to let you live.
We owe so much money we’re not broke we’re broken.
We’re so poor we can’t even pay attention.
Of course, sometimes I think that even if the Ragnarok did come no-one would notice; they’d all be too busy watching fucking MTV or Big Brother. Why bother to learn to think for yourself when you can just buy the lines force-fed to you by the pundits? It’s not like anyone trusts the media anymore anyway, what with the constant pushing of the liberal Marxist agenda and all. Hah!
34. Tadpole, “Better Days” (watch)
Sometimes I feel guilty and I wish I could absolve it
I miss peace it’s nice, haven’t had much of it ‘round here lately
I miss peace, it’s nice.
A lament for the lost. Because it’s easier to insist you’re right than admit the other side might have a point. No weakness in a happy medium*.
35. SASH!, “Halleluja”
Thank you; for a lighter lifestyle
Thank you, for the Internet
Thank you, for shopping malls
Thank you, for one way streets
Thank you, for global warming
Thank you, for rainy, hotter days
Thank you, for better understanding
Thank you, for the GPS (yeah hey!)
Thank you, for the radio, yeah
Thank you, for the yellow press (yeah hey!)
Thank you, for plastic surgery
Thank you, for safer sex
I thank you; for the World Cup finals
Thank you; for radar control
Thank you; for a brilliant future
In a peaceful world
Fuck me we’re all gonna die. (And I mean like, sooner rather than naturally.)
This post bought to you by global instability. Last week ~H [h] was planning something with his Music Monday; I’m sure it’s much less depressing, so head on over to semi-transparent and check it out.
* Cough. Sorry.
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