Posted on 08/03/2023 9:54:17 PM PDT by algore
Revolution 1-The Beatles-1968
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You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it’s evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don’t you know that you can count me out
Don’t you know it’s gonna be all right?
Don’t you know it’s gonna be all right?
Don’t you know it’s gonna be all right?
You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We’d all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We’re all doing what we can
But if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is brother you have to wait
You say you’ll change the constitution
Well, you know
We’d all love to change your head
You tell me it’s the institution
Well, you know
You better free your mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow
Perfect setup in 1998 for the coming 24 hour news and the internet of showing the sleaze and narcissism of Washington DC or any other world capital. Rinse and repeat.
Sorry 1988
Bump
1988, four years later
yes.
later there was a movie about 28 days
one of the best albums. Queensryche was a really good band. Saw them live a couple of times good shows.
We did go see them live on this tour. Denver's Big Mac arena. Great show!
Big blowup full of lawsuits would later take place between their operatic lead singer Geoff Tate and the rest of the band.
Guess I had stopped listening to current “music” a couple years before that.
Because Happiness is a warm gun (Bang, bang, shoot, shoot)
-PJ
Asylum, 1985 another very precient album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gO2QNreVyU&ab_channel=2666-TheArtOfListening
Michael couldn’t understand,
Why people shook him by the hand,
Then laughed at him and talked behind his back.
Michael didn’t know the rules,
Abused, confused at all the schools they sent him to - gave him the view to leave.
Michael’s got a gun,
Now he’s living on the hill.
Watch the people run,
Shooting down the kids at play,
He’ll teach them all to stay away.
Mothers screaming, running round
No-one laughs at Michael now!
Out the classroom window stood a hill which made him feel so good,
He thought he’d like to have it as a home.
People never spoke to him,
Ignored, deplored, he got so bored,
He ran away and bought himself a gun.
Michael’s got a gun...
Michael lay down in the sun,
Perhaps he’d put away the gun if only they would leave him quite alone.
No-one heard his point of view,
The crowd of vigilantes grew,
So Michael used the gun just one last time...
Michael’s got a gun,
Now he’s buried on the hill...
Heck Yeah!
Operation Mindcrime is an incredible masterpiece album. It’s unfortunate that Queensryche went the way of the dodo soon after. Nothing they ever did could reach the brilliance of this album. But I guess that’s what makes an epic album.
Their album “The warning” was very end time oriented.
To be repeated....
“But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow”
Bkmk
Bfl
I worked a lot of concerts in that place. Red Rocks, Rainbow, Mile High Stadium and Folsom Field, Boulder too. Those were the days. ;O)
I never saw them live with Geoff Tate. I did see them with new singer Todd Latrobe twice in 2019 and 2021.
Latorre* autocorrect strikes again.
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