This is a song about preachers who send young people to war and to their deaths.
"Sky pilot" is rude slang for armed forces chaplains. "Pejorative (20th century, Wobbly lingo) for a member of the clergy who counsels passive acceptance of existing sociopolitical structures."
One of the original anti-nuclear war songs (1962), it's a story about life in the postwar ruins.
Covered by The Grateful Dead and Nazareth among others. My favorite version is by The Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart singing lead.
"Where have all the people gone today?
There's no need for you to be worrying about all those people
You never see those people anyway"
The U.S. government has opened detention centers all over Georgia - all over the U.S. They are trying to open one about 30 miles away in Social Circle.
There are no trials. There is no legal recourse for the men, women and children held there indefinitely. No one, not even congresspeople, are allowed in to see what is going on.
Oud and percussion instrumental. Good listening.
From the 2014 Liberian Ebola outbreak.
Forgotten children conform a new faith
Avidity and lust controlled by hate
For SubGenius Spice who understood the proper use of metal.
Trying to explain to humans that funk is revolutionary...
Queens, NY, Lower Manhattan (Chinatown & Dumbo)... makes me kind of homesick. But one can never go back.
Queens is the most ethnically diverse area in the United States. Where I live now, Gwinnett County, Georgia is the 2nd. And that's what I like about it.
The way I'm seeing it, the "atomic clock" is microseconds away from at least a limited nuclear weapons exchange. And I think everyone will be surprised when they find out exactly who has nuclear weapons.
Yes, it's calypso.
I come and stand at every door
But no one hears my silent tread
I knock and yet remain unseen
For I am dead, for I am dead
Because something is happening here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?
The geriatric resistance...
RIP Clarence Carter, 1936-2026. Atlantic (label), Alabama soul. Allegedly Duane Allman on guitar.
Also known for Patches. A lot of his stuff was too risque for airplay.
For the soundtrack as the world descends into war. Abaddon is the place of destruction and the name of the Angel of the Abyss.
Glorious prog overkill.
"Chimera is the third and last video of the trilogy that started with Furia, continued through Irae, and that ends here." From the YouTube description. A beautiful video, extremely well-done and imagistic.
Italian band. I hesitate to use the label "neo-pagan" - more of a current that includes bands like Heilung. "A Tergo Lupi" is taken from an Italian folk saying - "Before us, the precipice; behind us, the wolf."
Testament is an 80s anti-nuclear war film starring Jane Alexander. It's about a small suburban community caught in the aftermath of a nuclear war.
It's a small movie, not as powerful as Threads or as Hollywood as The Day After, but its small scale and smaller cast make it more effective than the latter.
tl:dw >!They all die slowly, one by one.!<
You poisoned my sweet water
You cut down my green trees
The food you fed my children
Was the cause of their disease
Ancient hippie stuff.
We may all have to very soon. So get real funky - and stay that way.
A great song about inflation, but it's reggae, not funk. Time Tough by Toots and the Maytals.
I just realized that "doom mood" was a palindrome.
Is this a bossa nova?