Eagles of Death Metal Discuss Paris Terror Attacks

As I watched the interview I prayed that God would fill this void they have recently discovered!

I think they appreciate how close they came to the other side of eternity....
.....would that someone can tell them about Jesus.....
Please pray for them.

I think the lyrics are meant to be a parody of metal music or probably more precisely - a parody of what some uptight and ultra religious folks probably think rock and especially metal music is all about. The band and the band members are not Satanists and the lyrics of the song are not meant to be an endorsement of the Devil. They are not truly a "metal" band but incorporate many musical styles including blues and bluegrass and pop rock and "easy listening rock", i.e. The Eagles, but with a "metal" edge but also at the same time being very satirical. Perhaps not everyone's cup of tea but with an amazing line up of some great rock musicians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagles_of_Death_Metal

The band outside of founding members - Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme (Queens Of The Stone Age) who grew up together are good friends; the band has a revolving line up of musicians including Jack Black and Dave Grohl and I think on occasion Jack White and many other well known studio musicians.

At age 7, Hughes' mother, Jo Ellen, moved him to Palm Desert, California. In high school, he became friends with Josh Homme (later of Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age). They became good friends after Homme stopped a bully from picking on Hughes. Hughes graduated from the Greenville Technical College with a degree in journalism and worked as the manager of a video depot in Palm Desert for several years.

In a 2007 interview, bandmate Josh Homme stated "Jesse Hughes and I have a theory; we're socially liberal but government conservative guys".[1] Hughes has also said "I wanted to be a Republican politician, for God sakes. I'm a conservative, dude".[2]

Hughes and Homme formed Eagles of Death Metal in 1998. Hughes credits Homme with saving his life, claiming that during the recording of the second Eagles of Death Metal album Death By Sexy, he fell into serious drug addiction and that Homme not only drove him to rehabilitation, but paid for it as well.[3]

Homme is from what I understand a great guy and that he helped his best friend through such a difficult time and not only insisted on and drove his friend Hughes to rehab but then also paid for it, I think says a lot about his character.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Hughes_(musician)

FWIW, just the other day I was watching a "Behind The Music" show on Pat Benatar. She and her husband Neil Giraldo were talking about the song they, along with another band mate wrote and recorded for Crimes of Passion album - "Hell Is For Children" and how some religious groups at the time objected to the song as they thought it was a call for children to become Satanists and devote their lives to Satan based for what it seemed, only on the title of the song - "Hell Is For Children".

But the reason they wrote the song was to make a statement against child abuse after reading an article about several children who had been locked in a closet for years and suffered terrible from physical, sexual abuse and horrible neglect and other articles at the time about child abuse. Neil Giraldo said he was dumbfounded how anyone could listen to or read the lyrics to the song they wrote and come out thinking that they thought that Hell was a good place for children or that it was an endorsement for children to join Satanism. It was actually quite the opposite.

Pat Benatar - Hell Is for Children - Live 2001

I think the lyrics speak for themselves.

“Kiss The Devil”

Who’ll love the devil?...
Who’ll sing his song?...
Who will love the devil and his song?...
I’ll love the devil!...
I’ll sing his song!...
I will love the devil and his song!...
Who’ll love the devil?...
Who’ll kiss his tongue?...
Who will kiss the devil on his tongue?...
I’ll love the devil!...
I’ll kiss his tongue!...
I will kiss the devil on his tongue!...
Who’ll love the devil?...
Who’ll sing his song?...
I will love the devil and his song!...
Who’ll love the devil?...
Who’ll kiss his tongue?...
I will kiss the devil on his tongue!...
Who’ll love the devil?...
Who’ll sing his song?...
I WILL LOVE THE DEVIL AND SING HIS SONG!...

___________________________________________

How silly of us, we should have known they were really singing about JESUS.

Oh, I remember the Benatar idiocy very well.

These guys seem to be of the same ilk as Spinal Tap.

Or this bit of silliness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADj7TISP-YI&list=PLwTwT9UPfBAsLr3mmCwkXWuM_vcIwaZWH

Anyone else old enough to remember the madness surrounding Tull’s Aqualung album?

That one ended up in *lots* of “album burnings”.

And for nothing.

Ian was defending God against those who take His name in vain.

But why bother reading the lyrics when a song title will do?

Not to mention “Alice Cooper Goes to Hell”.

That album was pretty much a sermon but few noticed.

:-\

Alice, singing as Satan

I know all your desires
Your heart is so full of pain
Is there something I can provide?
When you feel like life’s passed you by

I’m on your side
Gimme this, gimme that
Gimme this, gimme that
Gimme this, gimme that
Gimme this, gimme that

Gimme this, gimme that
Gimme this, gimme that
Gimme this, gimme that
Gimme this, gimme that

Please don’t ask me my name
Does it matter I’m just here for you
Trust me, just let yourself go
And that’s all you need to know

I’m on your side, sincerely
I’m your only friend
Yes, I’m on your side
Sincerely

Don’t you wish you had it all?
Don’t you deserve to have it all?
Kneel down and tell me what you need
Fame and money all for you
I can make your every dream come true

Gimme this, gimme that
Gimme this, gimme that
Gimme this, gimme that
Gimme this, gimme that

Tell me whose more important than you?
You’re the apple of my ancient eyes
How could the world be so cruel
I’ll make you my own precious jewel

I’m on your side, sincerely
I’m the only one that cares
Yes, I’m on your side
Sincerely

Don’t you wish you had it all?
Don’t you deserve to have it all?
Kneel down and tell me what you need

Fame and money all for you
I can make your every dream come true

There is one thing
I mean everything has a price
I really hate to repeat myself
But nothing’s free

Yes, I’m on your side, sincerely
I’m the only one that cares
Oh, I’m on your side
Sincerely

Don’t you wish you had it all?
Don’t you deserve to have it all?
Kneel down and tell me what you need

Don’t you deserve to have it all?
Don’t you wish you had it all?
Don’t you deserve to have it all?
Kneel down and tell me what you need

Fame and money all for you
I can make your every dream come true

Gimme this, gimme that
Gimme this, gimme that
Gimme this, gimme that
Gimme this, gimme that

Looks pretty bad until you see what he’s really trying to convey.

https://vimeo.com/124049907

Nice little tune written after Columbine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eIlDycrnfU

“Devil’s little tools”

FYI, Alice always gets “executed” after this song, because justice.

Oh, I remember the Benatar idiocy very well.

Yes. It was very stupid as while the song lyrics were hard to listen to, it was a statement against child abuse and had nothing to do with recruiting children to follow the Devil.

Anyone else old enough to remember the madness surrounding Tull's Aqualung album? That one ended up in *lots* of "album burnings". And for nothing. Ian was defending God against those who take His name in vain.

Honestly I don't recall that but it doesn't surprise me.

Many people think that the song Aqualung is about a pedophile - a disturbed, vile and disgusting man and someone deserving to be shunned and despised and spat upon, but according to Ian Anderson - "The lyrics give a description and backstory of Aqualung. He is described as a dirty, paedophilic, homeless man. This, however, is merely the view of average passerby. By viewing Aqualung as a disgusting paedophile, we can excuse ourselves with not helping him. In verse two and three, the truth of Aqualung is told. He is simply an old man, who is lonely, sick and in pain, whom nobody cares for." "But for the Grace of God, go I"

The song is about having compassion for those less fortunate and not judging based on appearance or misfortune. I don't think Ian is a "Christian" per se - he describes himself as being "somewhere between Deist and Pantheist" religiously, according to his foreword to the pamphlet for his 2006 St Brides charity concerts for the homeless, he none the less seems to have a very kind heart and soul, something that people would not necessarily know from his stage persona.

The idea came about from a photograph my wife at the time took of a tramp in London. I had feelings of guilt about the homeless, as well as fear and insecurity with people like that who seem a little scary. And I suppose all of that was combined with a slightly romanticized picture of the person who is homeless but yet a free spirit, who either won't or can't join in society's prescribed formats.

So from that photograph and those sentiments, I began writing the words to "Aqualung". I can remember sitting in a hotel room in L.A., working out the chord structure for the verses. It's quite a tortured tangle of chords, but it was meant to really drag you here and there and then set you down into the more gentle acoustic section of the song.

And Ian Anderson, while admitting to be a "liberal" and having many political disagreements with, had a very close and long time personal friendship over the years with Tony Snow and wrote a very nice tribute to him when he died which was posted here:

Tony Snow: A Tribute -- by Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull

Tony Snow and Ian Anderson - Flute duet

Jethro Tull Ian Anderson Aqualung Classical

But why bother reading the lyrics when a song title will do? Not to mention "Alice Cooper Goes to Hell". That album was pretty much a sermon but few noticed. :-\

While I liked the Alice Cooper songs "I'm Eighteen" and "School's Out For Summer" as those songs got heavy airplay at the time, I have to admit that wasn't a big Alice Cooper fan back in the late 1970's or of the whole shock or glam rock genre - or of Black Sabbath or KISS...at the time I was more into Southern Rock or California Rock - Little Feat, Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, and bands like Boston, Styx, Heart but also more progressive bands like Rush and Queen and ELO and in the very late 70's, the Talking Heads, Elvis Costello and Blondie and The Ramones, The Clash and Bob Marley, but at the same time I "discovered" the music my older brother was into - EL&P, the Beatles and The Beach Boy's - their classics but also their "Pet Sounds" LP. I also liked classical music and jazz of all types and of classic swing music, i.e. Benny Goodman and of Motown and the Blues - Moody Waters and others lesser known Blues and Jazz artists going back to the 1920's and of instrumental blue grass and classic country like Pasty Cline. I developed very broad and eclectic tastes and appreciation of various musicals styles back then that I still have today.

But I do recall the controversy when Alice Cooper released the song "Only Women Bleed" (which was about as close to a "sensitive ballad" as Alice may have ever done - LOL!) and how that many radio stations refused to play it and how both feminists and religious groups objected to and called for it to banned from the airwaves, because, well to the overly religious folks, it sounded like he was singing about female menstruation and that's something that can't ever be talked about and the feminists who thought he was signing in praise of "wife beating". Neither group evidently ever listened to the lyrics of the song in its entirety and completely overlooked that the song was a statement against domestic violence and not advocating for it.

Alice Cooper - Only Women Bleed

The song has perhaps even more poignancy when he performs it today, after Alice got clean and sober and was "Born Again" as we know of Alice's past struggles with drug addition, alcoholism and womanizing.