? of the Day: What's the best song for NEO today?

NEO in Schism, Tool makes the pieces fit

From the awesome Maynard lead Cleveland rooted/routed TOOL - from hands-down one of the greatest albums ever - Lateralus - very interesting website - they toured with a concert to die at... now, remember that the pieces fit:

I know the pieces fit cuz I watched them fall away
mildewed and smoldering, fundamental differing,
pure intention juxtaposed will set two lovers souls in motion
disintegrating as it goes testing our communication
the light that fueled our fire then has burned a hole between us so
we cannot see to reach an end crippling our communication.

I know the pieces fit cuz I watched them tumble down
no fault, none to blame it doesn't mean I don't desire to
point the finger, blame the other, watch the temple topple over.
To bring the pieces back together, rediscover communication.

The poetry that comes from the squaring off between,
And the circling is worth it.
Finding beauty in the dissonance.

There was a time that the pieces fit, but I watched them fall away.
Mildewed and smoldering, strangled by our coveting
I've done the the math enough to know the dangers of a second guessing
Doomed to crumble unless we grow, and strengthen our communication

cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion

between supposed lovers
between supposed brothers.

And I know the pieces fit.

More Human Than Human

Thank you Rob Zombie for this inspiring ditty of this OZoney kinda Cle'land day - coming to the Amp this Summer...

Rob ZombieMore Human Than Human

Yeah I am the astro-
Creep a demolition
Style hell american
Freak yeah - I am the
Crawling dead - a
Phantom in a box
Shadow in your
Head say acid
Suicide freedom
Of the blast read
The f**ker lies yeah -
Scratch off the -
Broken skin - tear
Into my heart make
Me do it again yeah
Yeah

More human than human
More human than human
More human than human
More human than human
More human than human
More human than human

Yeah I am the jigsaw
Man I turn the
World around
With a skeleton hand say -
I am electric head a cannibal galore a
Television said
Yeah do not victimize
Read the mother
F**ker-psychoholic lies yeah -
Into a psychic war i
Tear my soul
Apart and i
Eat it some more yeah
Yeah

More human than human
More human than human
More human than human
More human than human
More human than human
More human than human

I am the ripper
Man a locomotion
Mind love american
Style yeah I am
The nexus one i
Want more life
F**ker I aint
Done - yeah

More human than human
More human than human
More human than human
More human than human
More human than human
More human than human
More human than human
More human than human

Song of the day: Gonna Change the World

Thanks again to Bone Thugs N Harmony for keeping NEO real... with Gonna Change the World, on BTNHRESURRECTION

12. Change The World Featuring Big B   (ra | wav)

Raisin' hustlas, thieves, and prostitutes.
Young homie think before you shoot
Murderaaaaah.
Where will our children go,
When there no (nowhere, no!) place anywhere they can go?

And trouble may come and some time
You'll get pulled over by one-time
And when in 1999 rewinds didn even make any strides
Murder all around the whole world is nausiating
Everybody hatin' everybody over-rated
Why everybody actin' agitated?
I thought we graduated back in the saddle
Waitin' (board) aboard the battle station
Hation is a birth defect, and you know ain't nobody perfect,
And when the curtains close, open up the door, no more, no more.

See we's losing this world we love.
And it looks like the sinninwon't end.
So I'm reachinhigh up above.
Lord let Your blessings begin.

And let's change the world,
And let's change the world [worrrrld!],
Let's change the world,
Let's change the world [worrrrld!],
Let's change the world,
Let's change the world [worrrrld!]
Let's change the world, lets change the world [worrrrld!].

It got me ready to set off the riot.
Ridinwith my trues
Humbly united gathering souls.
Here we go, roll up some more Phillies.
My nigga let me hit it.
Niggas we thugginimmortalized,
Let's get high.
It's them niggas you most desire.
I could remember from way back in the day
Coming up out of the ghetto was a hell of a struggle.
For selling the fiends llello,
But it was my dream to kick flows to put my people on another level.
Like it'll be for the lust (lust).
Or could it be for the rush (rush)?
My niggas love when they bust (bust).
They steady buck and you duck (duck).
They'll put you deep in the dust (dust).
My niggas creepinon ah come up (come up).
Black nigga killa (killa).
Thuggish ruggish nigga.
Nigga pin it,
Nigga finna desend into a dawn of a new millennium.
Anticipatin,life without Satan.
Hatinand our enemies to hell I'm sendin' em.

And let's change the world,
And let's change the world [worrrrld!],
Let's change the world,
Let's change the world [worrrrld!],
Let's change the world,
Let's change the world [worrrrld!]
Let's change the world, lets change the world [worrrrld!].

Everyday the devil at me.
And I wish the Lord threw a hummer at me,
I ain't happy.
Me and Eazy-E in a B-E-N-Z
With my niggas right next to me.
It's my legacy,
We can't let it stop us,
Unh unh, not now.
The whole world endin' up the buck buck, pow!
Corruption, destruction, disaster,
Everybody tryin' to rap faster than the master.
Oh Lord, could you save my soul?
Nigga tryin' to go platinum around 40 years old.
The Lord knows we can do this shit.
It ain't no stoppin' us now 'cause we can prove this shit.
Nigga me, Stew, D's P.D., Freaky-G.
The whole world wanna be rappin' with me.
I'm in the flesh,
Let's talk about sex.
Babies havin' babies generation X.
With the AIDS epidemic we ain't pure no more.
And I know they got a cure for this shit,
We ain't rich.
First we lost Eazy,
Then we lost Pac,
Biggie got killled,
When this shit gon stop?
Everybody wanna know what's goin' on with the Thuggish Ruggish
Bone-Bone-Bone-Bone.
Tryin' to be prepared for the Y2K.
And if I don't die today,
I'm tryin' to change the world.

And let's change the world,
And let's change the world [worrrrld!],
Let's change the world,
Let's change the world [worrrrld!],
Let's change the world,
Let's change the world [worrrrld!]
Let's change the world, lets change the world [worrrrld!].

You need a message,
You could love our rappin',
But they tryin' to ban it
Realize it ain't gonna happen.
We done changed the world (world).
Ghetto voices bein' heard and felt,
You know it's funny.
Got my guns better arm yourself.
Most don't have a clue if it goes down what to do?
Don't you know this government ain't vote for me and you?
I have a dream,
No I have a wish,
If we can't save ourselves,
Damn, let's save the kids.
Let the world go on (go on),
Let these babies have something,
Let the world go on (go on).
Just don't blow this muthafucka up.
You kill him,
He'll kill you.
Some say it's stupid but violence really lives where I come from (come from).
Hungry little kids where I come from. (come from).
thugs like me where I come from. (come from, come from, come from)

See we losing this world we love.
And it looks like the sinninwon't end.
So I'm reachinhigh up above.
Lord let Your blessings begin.

And let's change the world,
And let's change the world [worrrrld!],
Let's change the world,
Let's change the world [worrrrld!],
Let's change the world,
Let's change the world [worrrrld!]
Let's change the world, lets change the world [worrrrld!].

BTNHRESURRECTION
BTNHRESURRECTION
Release Date: Feb 29, 2000
(Platinum Sales Status)
Track listing for CD
(EK 063581)

1. Show 'Em   (ra | wav)
2. The Righteous Ones Featuring David's Daughters   (ra | wav)
3. 2 Glocks   (ra | wav)
4. Battlezone   (ra | wav)
5. Ecstasy   (ra | wav)
6. Murder One   (ra | wav)
7. Souljahs Marching   (ra | wav)
8. Servin' Tha Fiends   (ra | wav)
9. Resurrection (Paper, Paper)   (ra | wav)
10. Can't Give It Up   (ra | wav)
11. Weed Song   (ra | wav)
12. Change The World Featuring Big B   (ra | wav)
13. Don't Worry   (ra | wav)
14. Mind On Our Money   (ra | wav)
15. No Way Out   (ra | wav)
16. One Night Stand **BONUS TRACK**

Crossroads

Crossroads, by the East Side's own Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, from E.1999 eternal - too bad we couldn't help them succeed here in Cleveland, and they couldn't keep it better together.

Here's one of the best songs of all time, about life in Cleveland still today, for so many:

Bone bone bone bone bone bone bone bone bone
Now tell me whatcha gonna do when there ain't no where to run
When judgment comes for you, when judgment comes for you
Tell me whatcha gonna do when there ain't no where to hide
When judgment comes for you 'coz it's gonna come for you

Let's all bring it in for Wally, Eazy sees uncle Charlie
Little Boo, God's got him and I'm gonna miss everybody
I only roll with Bone my gang look to where they lay
When playing with destiny, play too deep for me to say
Lil' Layzie came to me, told me if he should decease well then please
Bury me by my grand-grand and when you can, come follow me

God bless you, working on a plan to heaven
Follow the Lord all 24/7 days, God is who we praise
Even though the devil's all up in my face
But he keeping me safe and in my place, say grace
For the case to race with a chance to face the judge
And I guess my soul won't budge
Grudge because there's no mercy for thugs
Oh, what can I do it's all about our family and how we roll
Can I get a witness? Let it unfold
We living our lives to eternal our soul

Hey, and we pray and we pray and we pray and we pray
Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday
And we pray and we pray and we pray and we pray
Still we laced, now follow me roll stroll
Whether is tell of his heaven
Come let's go take a visit of people that's long gone
Wally, Darris, Eazy, Terry, Boo
It's steadily creeping up on the family
Exactly how many days we got lasting
While you laughing we're passing, passing away
So y'all go rest y'all souls
'Coz I know I'ma meet you up at the crossroad
Y'all know y'all forever got love from them Bone Thugs, baby

Now Eazy's long gone
Really wish he could come home
But when it's time to die
Gotta go bye-bye
All a thug could do is cry, cry
Why they kill my dog and man
I miss my uncle Charles y'all
And he shoudn't be gone, in front of his home
What they did to Boo was wrong
Oh so wrong, oh so wrong
Gotta hold on, gotta stay strong
When the day comes
Better believe bone got a shoulder you can lean on

Hey and we pray, and we pray, and we pray, and we pray
Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday
And we pray, and we pray, and we pray, and we pray
Everday, everyday, everyday, everyday

Chorus
See you at the crossroads, crossroads, crossroads
So you won't be lonely (4x)

And I'm gonna miss everybody
And I'm gonna miss everybody when I'm gone (3x)

Living in a hateful world sending me straight to Heaven
That's how we roll (3x)
And I'm asking the good Lord "why?" and sigh
It's I he told me we live to die

What's up with murder y'all, see my little cousin was hung
Somebody was really wrong, everybody want to test us dawg
Then Miss Sleazy set up Eazy to fall, you know why we sinning
And Krayzie intended on ending it when it ends
Wanna come again, again and again
Now tell me whatcha gonna do

Can somebody anybody tell me why?
Hey, can somebody anybody tell me why we die, we die?
I don't wanna die

Oh so wrong, oh wrong

Round & Round (It Won't Be Long)

From one man who understands "Ohio"... Neil Young... next, check out "Living with War"... too bad he left Cleveland off his tour this summer (can you blame him?)...

"Round & Round (It Won't Be Long)"

Round and round and round we spin,
To weave a wall to hem us in,
It won't be long, it won't be long
How slow and slow and slow it goes,
To mend the tear that always shows.
It won't be long, it won't be long.

It's hard enough losin'
the paper illusion
you've hidden inside,
Without the confusion
of findin' you're usin'
the crutch of the lie
To shelter your pride when you cry.

Round and round and round we spin,
To weave a wall to hem us in,
It won't be long, it won't be long
How slow and slow and slow it goes,
To mend the tear that always shows.
It won't be long, it won't be long.

Now you're movin' too slow
and wherever you go
there's another beside.
It's so hard to say no
to yourself and it shows
that you're losing inside,
When you step on your pride and you cry.

Round and round and round we spin,
To weave a wall to hem us in,
It won't be long, it won't be long
How slow and slow and slow it goes,
To mend the tear that always shows.
It won't be long, it won't be long.

How the hours will bend
through the time that you spend
till you turn to your eyes,
And you see your best friend
looking over the end
and you turn to see why,
And he looks in your eyes and he cries.

Round and round and round we spin,
To weave a wall to hem us in,
It won't be long, it won't be long
How slow and slow and slow it goes,
To mend the tear that always shows.
It won't be long, it won't be long.

"One come a day, the water will run"... STOP

Stop: Jane's Addiction

from Ritual de lo Habitual


Save the complaints
For a party conversation.
The world is loaded,
It's lit to pop and nobody is gonna stop...

No one...
No one!
No way!
Gonna stop,
Now; go!

Farm people,
Book wavers, soul savers,
Love preachers!
Lit to pop and nobody is gonna stop.

No one...

One come a day, the water will run,
No man will stand for things that he had done...
Hurrah!
And the water will run...
One come a day, the water will run,
No man will stand for things that he had done...
Hurrah!
And the water will run...
Will Run!
Will Run!

Gimmie that!
Gimmie that - your automobile,
Turn off that smokestack
And that goddamn radio
Hum... along with me...
Hum along with the t.v.

No one's
Gonna
Stop!

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"Flight of the Bumble Bee"

For an ideal NEO July Fourth, warm and sunny, birds singing, flowers blooming, picnics in the grass with friends and family and watching fireworks in the evening, Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumble Bee" seems perfect to me. Classical music is so NEO!

The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest

This is personal choice, inspired by the great Dylan documentary on PBS rerun today - I love Dylan and he makes me think of my older son, so is all good, and his lyrics and music are as good as has ever been... and in them I find a message to my former partner Peter Holmes, a Frankie Lee, and I hope he learns from this Judas Priest before life takes him out in jest, everything revealed...

The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest

They were the best of friends.
So when Frankie Lee needed money one day,
Judas quickly pulled out a roll of tens
And placed them on a footstool
Just above the plotted plain,
Sayin', "Take your pick, Frankie Boy,
My loss will be your gain."

Well, Frankie Lee, he sat right down
And put his fingers to his chin,
But with the cold eyes of Judas on him,
His head began to spin.
"Would ya please not stare at me like that," he said,
"It's just my foolish pride,
But sometimes a man must be alone
And this is no place to hide."

Well, Judas, he just winked and said,
"All right, I'll leave you here,
But you'd better hurry up and choose
Which of those bills you want,
Before they all disappear."
"I'm gonna start my pickin' right now,
Just tell me where you'll be."

Judas pointed down the road
And said, "Eternity!"
"Eternity?" said Frankie Lee,
With a voice as cold as ice.
"That's right," said Judas Priest, "Eternity,
Though you might call it 'Paradise.'"

"I don't call it anything,"
Said Frankie Lee with a smile.
"All right," said Judas Priest,
"I'll see you after a while."

Well, Frankie Lee, he sat back down,
Feelin' low and mean,
When just then a passing stranger
Burst upon the scene,
Saying, "Are you Frankie Lee, the gambler,
Whose father is deceased?
Well, if you are,
There's a fellow callin' you down the road
And they say his name is Priest."

"Oh, yes, he is my friend,"
Said Frankie Lee in fright,
"I do recall him very well,
In fact, he just left my sight."
"Yes, that's the one," said the stranger,
As quiet as a mouse,
"Well, my message is, he's down the road,
Stranded in a house."

Well, Frankie Lee, he panicked,
He dropped ev'rything and ran
Until he came up to the spot
Where Judas Priest did stand.
"What kind of house is this," he said,
"Where I have come to roam?"
"It's not a house," said Judas Priest,
"It's not a house . . . it's a home."

Well, Frankie Lee, he trembled,
He soon lost all control
Over ev'rything which he had made
While the mission bells did toll.
He just stood there staring
At that big house as bright as any sun,
With four and twenty windows
And a woman's face in ev'ry one.

Well, up the stairs ran Frankie Lee
With a soulful, bounding leap,
And, foaming at the mouth,
He began to make his midnight creep.
For sixteen nights and days he raved,
But on the seventeenth he burst
Into the arms of Judas Priest,
Which is where he died of thirst.

No one tried to say a thing
When they took him out in jest,
Except, of course, the little neighbor boy
Who carried him to rest.
And he just walked along, alone,
With his guilt so well concealed,
And muttered underneath his breath,
"Nothing is revealed."

Well, the moral of the story,
The moral of this song,
Is simply that one should never be
Where one does not belong.
So when you see your neighbor carryin' somethin',
Help him with his load,
And don't go mistaking Paradise
For that home across the road.

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Ubu dance party preview for Rocket From The Tombs!


From the greatest band in Cleveland History, Pere Ubu, still a major force in the art music world, led by Clevelander now Londoner David Thomas, who is just plain amazing in many ways... they still make a point to stop in Cleveland when they tour - I saw the concert for the timeless album I pulled these lyrics from, Dub Housing, in 1979, seen them in SFCA and NYNY, and I saw David just a few years ago for the amazing Rocket From the Tombs show... and they'll be back with another Rocket From The Tombs in a few weeks - WOW... start the Ubu Dance Party now

Ubu Dance Party

I did not see the darkened sky
I did not feel the pressure drop
I walked down the primrose path
I strolled along the garden walk
The rain fell and washed away
I built on sand
I got swept away

I went out and stirred the air
(My soup was steeped in strange ideas)
I breathed in,
I breathed out
I breathed in,
I breathed out
The rain fell and washed away
I built on sand
I got swept away

I went out and looked around
I went out
And I came back!
I walked down the primrose path
I strolled along the garden walk
The rain fell and washed away
My bed of sand got swept away

Writers:
Herman-Krauss-Maimone-Ravenstine-Thomas
© 1978 EMI Music (ROW), Bug Music (US/Can)
Lyrics by David Thomas

Song of the day: The Patient - Tool

Always #1 for making me patient - NEO rooted Tool

THE PATIENT

A groan of tedium escapes me, startling the fearful.
Is this a test?
It has to be. Otherwise I can't go on.
Draining patience. drain vitality.
this paranoid, paralyzed vampire act's a little old.

But I'm still right here, giving blood and keeping faith. And I'm still right here.
But I'm still right here, giving blood and keeping faith. And I'm still right here.

I'm gonna wait it out

If there were no rewards to reap,
no loving embrace to see me through this tedious path I've chosen here,
I certainly would've walked away by now.

I'm gonna wait it out

If there were no desire to heal
The damaged and broken met along this tedious path I've chosen here,
I certainly would've walked away by now.

I still may. And I still may.
Be patient.

I must keep reminding myself of this...

If there were no rewards to reap,
no loving embrace to see me through this tedious path I've chosen here,
I certainly would've walked away by now.
And I still may. And I still may. And I still may.

I'm gonna wait it out.
I'm gonna wait it out.
Gonna wait it out.
Gonna wait it out.

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Pigs in Zen - Jane's A... "Some People Should Die"

This is one of may fav' songs of a fav' album by fav' Janes's A (addiction, duh), and it is amazing thet the lyrics have been perverted my society - the album version is below, with the "Some People Should Die" rant, but when you do a normal search for the lyrics, at dozens of sites, even official, you find a cut-down version... how lame is this society? Here's the be real version, with the cut version below - are you a pig in zen?... even know what that means?


Jane's Addiction - Pigs in Zen

Entry Last Modified: 2005-09-19



Nothing's Shocking Version

Pig goes in the mud
When he tires
Pig's in zen
Pig's in zen
Pig is nude
Unashamed
Pig's in zen
Pig's in zen

Talkin' bout the pig
the pig
the pig - uh
pa-pa-pa-pa-pig
oh yeah,
the god damn pig!
Lets go!

Pig mounts sow
When he's wound
Pig's in zen
Pig's in zen
Pig eats shit
But only when he hungers
Pig's in zen
I know, the Pig's in zen

Talkin' bout the pig
The pig
The pig - uh!
The pa-pa-pa-pa-pig, yeah
The god damn pig
Lets go!

Yeah, so roses are red
I made up the rest
If you got some big fucking secret
Then why don't you sing me something?
I'm in the midst of a trauma
Leave a message- I'll call you back
Leave it by the bed
Some people should die
That's just unconscious knowledge
Because, because the bigger you get
The wider you're spread
You gotta depend on me
Now your vision is dead
The more your dream is dead
Visions...
It gets sucked from my eye
Like an eagle's claw

The pig
The pig
The pig
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pig


Jane's Addiction Version

Get up!
Yeah, yeah, yeah!

Pigs in the mud
When he tires
Pigs in zen
Pigs in zen
Pig is nude
Unashamed
Pigs in zen
Pigs in zen

Talkin' bout the pig
The pig
The pig - uh
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pig
Yeah! A god damn pig!
Lets go!

Pig mounts sow
When he's wound
Pigs in zen
Pigs in zen
And pig eats shit
But only when he hungers
Pig's in zen
I know
The pigs in zen

I'm talking talkin' bout the pig
The pig
The pig - uh
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pig
Yeah, goddamn pig
Lets go!

Oh baby!
I know about war!
But I just wanna fuck!
I know about pain and suffering and being cold
But I just wanna fuck!
Pig is led to the slaughter
Pig is led to the sla....
This he said, is the price some pay
For a simple life oh!

How he feels
That's proof for him
Talking 'bout the pig
The pig
The pig
The pig
The pig
The god damn pig
The pig - uh
Pa-pa-pa-pa pig!

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Song of the day: of Velvet Underground

 

 

Best of the best - Velvet Underground (1969) - lyrics by Lou Reed:

 

Beginning to see the light

Well Im beginning to see the light.
Well Im beginning to see the light.
Some people work very hard,
But still they never get it right.
Well Im beginning to see the light.
Well Im beginning to see the light.
Now Im beginning to see the light.

Wine in the morning
And some breakfast at night.
Well Im beginning to see the light.
Here we go again
Playing the fool again.
Here we go again
Acting hard again.
Well Im beginning to see the light.
Well Im beginning to see the light.
Now Im beginning to see the light.

Well Im beginning to see the light.
Im beginning to see the light.
I wore my teeth in my hands
So I could mess the hair of the night
Well Im beginning to see the light.
Hey Im beginning to see the light.
I met myself in a dream
And I just wanna tell you - everything was alright
Im beginning to see the light.
Here comes two of you,
Which one will you chose?
One is black, one is blue.
Dont look just what to do.
Well Im beginning to see the light.
Well Im beginning to see the light.
Now Im beginning to see the light.

Well Im beginning to see the light.
Well Im beginning to see the light.
Some people work very hard
But still they never get it right
Well Im beginning to see the light.
There are problems in these times
But none of them are mine
Baby, Im beginning to see the light.
Here we go again,
I thought that you were my friend.
Here we go again,
I thought that you were my friend.
How does it feel to be loved?
How does it feel to be loved?

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Song of the day: Final Solution

The girls won't touch me cause I got a misdirection,
and livin at night isn't helpin my complexion
The signs all say it's a social infection
A little bit of fun's never been an insurrection

Mom threw me out til I get some pants that fit
She just don't approve of my strange kind of wit
I get so excited I always gotta lose it,
then they pack me off & make me take the cure
But I don't need a cure,
don't need a cure
don't need a cure,
need a final solution

Buy me a ticket to a sonic reduction
Guitars gonna sound like a nuclear destruction
It seems I'm the victim of natural selection,
or maybe just another slide in another direction
I don't need a cure,
don't need a cure
don't need a cure,
need a final solution

Solution!

Writers:
Thomas-Bell-Pere Ubu
©1978 EMI Music (ROW),
Bug Music (US/Can)
Lyrics by David Thomas

Final Solution is considered to be one of post-punk band Pere Ubu's finest songs. It was their second single, and proved to be a massive success, helping propel them to a recording contract. The song itself dates back to the precursor of Pere Ubu, Rocket From The Tombs. When the members of Rocket From The Tombs split into the artistic Pere Ubu, and the punk The Dead Boys, Ubu took the songs Final Solution, Life Stinks, and 30 Seconds Over Tokyo. It ended up on the set list when Rocket From The Tombs reunited in 2003.

The song itself, however, deals with a case of suburban isolation. In Ohio, during the early 70s, the generation gap had begun to grow. While the rust belt began to form, disaffected youth took over the unwanted, abandoned downtowns of cities like Akron, and Cleveland. They helped rise to a new culture, spawning art and music movements. Music was especially prominent in the Ohio scene, creating some of the most legendary bands of any era, Devo, Pere Ubu, The Numbers, The Dead Boys, Rubber City Rebels, and a host more that never made it.

Of course, outside of the cities, in depressed suburbs, teenagers living with their folks were unaware of what was brewing in town. Either through their own ignorance, or parental disapproval, there was a rift between the youth of the suburbs and the cities. When someone in the suburbs was turned on to the growing scene, it was liable to distance them from not only their parents, but their peers as well. The lyrics of Final Solution deal with the narrator's reactions to his peers, his parents, and the world at large.

Because he's weird, the girls aren't interested. He stays out at night, and is pale. He doesn't understand the reaction, either. He just wants to have a little bit of fun! Even worse, is the reaction of his parents. He's thrown out for flaunting the fashion of the punk scene. They try and pack him off to military school to make him conform to society's demands. The lyrics draw a parallel between parental disapproval and Hitler's Final Solution to deal with the Jews. Just taking care of one punk isn't enough. They had to destroy the society.

In the end, our narrator sneaks to a concert, and escapes the drudgery of suburban life. He is among his own kind, in another world. This is his own final solution. It is a story in which any teenager who has felt ostracized for being in a subculture can relate to. Be they a geek or a goth or a punk, Final Solution is a timeless classic that will always speak to the disaffected.

Final Solution can be found on the Pere Ubu singles compilation, Terminal Tower, and in the box set Datapanik In The Year Zero.

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W.A.N.D.

my nomination for best neo song.  The W.A.N.D. by the flaming lips

these crazies headlined blossom at the innaugural kuyahoga festival.  it was a steamy feverish night that broke after a thunderstorm

unfortunately, i had to work, but the freetimes reported and the photo of wayne coyne says it  all 

It looks as if I can no longer upload files, so please email me if you want to me to email the mp3.  oUtStAnDInG!!

The song The W.A.N.D.
Will Negates All Defeat

"(You've got the power in there)
(Waving your wand in the air)

Time after time those fanatical minds try to rule all the world
Telling us all it's them who's in charge of it all
I've got a tricked out magic stick that will make them all fall
We've got the power now, motherfuckers; that's where it belongs

You've got that right
(Power in there)
You know that it's...
(Wand in the air)

They've got their weapons to solve all their questions, they don't know what it's for
(Cause they don't know what it's for)
Why can't they see it's not power, just greed, to just want more and more?
(Just want more and more)
I got a plan and it's here in my hand but it's all made of rights
We're the enforcers, the sorcerer's orphans, and we know why we fight
(And we know why we fight)

You've got that right
(You've got the power in there)
(Waving your wand in the air)

(You've got the power in there)
(You've got the power in there)
(You've got the power in there)
(Waving your wand in the air)

You've got that right
You know that it's..."

from the freetimes review:

"Coyne's intuitions were right: When he saw the line-up for Kuyahoga, he said he thought, "Fuck, that's gonna be the greatest festival anyone can put on."

Song of the Day for NEO: Lay My Love

Since the earlies days of Roxy Music through all music-time since, Brian Eno has been one of my favorite forces. The following song, Eno acknowledges as a self-portrait (inteview note floows lyrics), is perfect for NEO and REALNEO today... "Lay My Love"

I am the crow of desperation
I need no fact or validation
I spin relentless variation
I scramble in the dust of a failing nation
I was concealed
Now I am stirring
And I have waited for this time.

I am the termite of temptation
I multiply and fly my population
I am the wheel I am the turning
And I will lay my love around you.

I am the sea of permutation
I live beyond interpretation
I scramble all the names and the combinations
[I] penetrate the walls of explanation
I am the will
I am the burning
And I will lay my love around you.

I am the will
I am the yearning
And I will lay my love around you.

Interview notes about the song:

References:

Michael Engelbrecht: You have written some kind of ironic 'self portrait' in LAY MY LOVE? And it's a love song, too.

Brian Eno: Well, it's quite interesting, that you are the first person that noticed that it's a self portrait (laughs), which was so obvious to me. But I never said it to anyone, because I don't like to tell people things like that. Nobody else ever mentioned it. And I mean, it says: every line begins "I am", "I", "I", "I", "I", "I". So that song was kind of a joke on myself. I've always said in the past, I don't like to write songs in the first person singular. There are so many rock songs with "I do this", "I want", "I need", "I woke up this morning", "I gotta get next to you, girl" - that kind of thing, "I gotta feel your body". And I've always said, I don't want to write songs like that, 'relationship songs' I call them. So I had this idea, I didn't want to write songs that started with "I". I didn't want to write songs that ended with "you" - that was the other thing I didn't want. And I didn't want "love" in between. So I didn't want "I love you" as a message, how ever it was filled out and disguised. I didn't want that as a message.

And so, partly through John Cale's influence, he said "Oh, come on. Just do it!" And so I thought "Well, maybe I break my own rules for a change. And not only will I use the word "I", I use it at the beginning of every single sentence!" (laughs) So I realized this was going to be some kind of a love song. But I thought "How could you do something with the love song form that is maybe original?" The first part of the song that I had written was "I'm gonna lay my love around you", which in English has a nice feeling: it's like someone laying a bouquet of flowers around somebody else, or laying a cloak over the shoulders, or something like that - this notion of surrounding someone. But I thought "That's nice, but it's too sweet alone, it's too simply romantic". So these other images starting coming up, and they were kind of nice, because they undermine the romantic quality. You start thinking "Would I really like to have this person laying his love around me, this person who is 'the termite of temptation' and 'the crow of desperation'?"

And then, of course, I should say, there are all the autobiographical parts of it. The way that the song is written is described within the song: "I spin relentless combinations", "I multiply and fly my population", because within the song I'm spinning, I'm shuffling the same cards over and over again. So it's not only an autobiographical song, it's a - what do they call it - a self-referential song.

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In honor of Tax Junkies and Community Art junk

Tax junkie CPAC - Community Partnership for Arts and Culture - is on the Cuyahoga County art junk again, so I thought this was the perfect song for the day...

Heroin
Lou Reed - Velvet Underground

I dont know just where Im going
But Im gonna try for the kingdom, if I can
cause it makes me feel like Im a man
When I put a spike into my vein
And Ill tell ya, things arent quite the same
When Im rushing on my run
And I feel just like jesus son
And I guess that I just dont know
And I guess that I just dont know

I have made the big decision
Im gonna try to nullify my life
cause when the blood begins to flow
When it shoots up the droppers neck
When Im closing in on death
And you cant help me not, you guys
And all you sweet girls with all your sweet silly talk
You can all go take a walk
And I guess that I just dont know
And I guess that I just dont know

I wish that I was born a thousand years ago
I wish that Id sail the darkened seas
On a great big clipper ship
Going from this land here to that
In a sailors suit and cap
Away from the big city
Where a man can not be free
Of all of the evils of this town
And of himself, and those around
Oh, and I guess that I just dont know
Oh, and I guess that I just dont know

Heroin, be the death of me
Heroin, its my wife and its my life
Because a mainer to my vein
Leads to a center in my head
And then Im better off and dead
Because when the smack begins to flow
I really dont care anymore
About all the jim-jims in this town
And all the politicians makin crazy sounds
And everybody puttin everybody else down
And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds

cause when the smack begins to flow
Then I really dont care anymore
Ah, when the heroin is in my blood
And that blood is in my head
Then thank God that Im as good as dead
Then thank your God that Im not aware
And thank God that I just dont care
And I guess I just dont know
And I guess I just dont know

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Anarchy in NEO?

Sex Pistols... Anarchy in the UK

Right ! now ! ha ha ha ha ha

I am an antichrist
I am an anarchist
Dont know what I want but
I know how to get it
I wanna destroy the passer by cos i

I wanna be anarchy !
No dogs body

Anarchy for the u.k its coming sometime and maybe
I give a wrong time stop a trafic line
Your future dream is a shopping scheme cos i

I wanna be anarchy !
In the city

How many ways to get what you want
I use the best I use the rest
I use the enemy I use anarchy cos i

I wanna be anarchy !
The only way to be !

Is this the m.p.l.a
Or is this the u.d.a
Or is this the i.r.a
I thought it was the u.k or just
Another country
Another council tenancy

I wanna be an anarchist
Oh what a name
Get pissed destroy !

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Dead Can Dance - Don't Fade Away

When I saw a friend at Ed hauser's funeral she said "They Killed Him", and that is certainly true.

To those who killed Ed, I believe his spirit lives on - the Dead Can Dance - and Ed shall not fade away, and has the last dance.

Dead Can Dance - "Don't Fade Away"...


Dont fade away
My brown-eyed girl
Come walk with me
Ill fill your heart with joy
And well dance through our isolation
Seeking solace in the wisdom we bestow
Turning thoughts to the here and everafter
Consuming fears in our fiery halos

Say what you mean
Mean what you say
Ive heard that innocence
Has led us all astray

But dont let them make you and break you
The world is filled with their broken empty
Dreams
Silence is their only virtue
Locked away inside their silent screams

But for now
Let us dance away
This starry night
Filled with the glow of fiery stars
And with the dawn
Our sun will rise
Bringing a symphony of bird cries

Dont bring me down now
Let me stay here for awhile
You know lifes too short
Let me bathe here in your smile
Im transcending
The fall from the garden

Goodnight

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