| The Psychedelic Furs – President Gas Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Ronald. Reagan. The most gaseous (as in insubstantial) president of my lifetime … until Shrub. (Hence the "no there there" biography, "Dutch.") Yes, it's about politicians in general, but it's about Reagan in particular. Reagan hooked the nation on an opiate of sunny "Back to the Future" denialism -- selling a "return" to an idealized, warm and fuzzy past that never existed in the first place ("Every day is happy days"). The Furs had moved to the US and recorded this album in the US with an American producer (Todd Rundgren) in an attempt to break through in the American market. If it had been about Maggie Thatcher the song would have been called "Prime Minister Petrol." | |
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