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| Iron Maiden – 2 Minutes To Midnight Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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@[quiffporn:49399] You obviously didn't grow up during the nuclear arms race, and I'm happy for you. But there was nothing "mythical" about the threat my generation grew up under, especially with war-mongering lunatics like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in power. (And on behalf of all of us, from all countries, who fought like hell to stop the insanity, you're welcome.) |
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| Iron Maiden – 2 Minutes To Midnight Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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@[Pennybags:49398] The Clock was developed by the Union of Concerned Scientists, and 11:58 pm happened after the Soviet Union first tested a hydrogen bomb. Otherwise, everyone is correct. |
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| Black Sabbath – TV Crimes Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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A high-powered slam at sleazy, money-grubbing TV preachers -- as if I needed another reason to love Sabbath/Dio! |
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| Twisted Sister – We're Not Gonna Take It Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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Great song, one of their best, but the one line I've never understood is "Your life is . . . confiscated". What the hell is that even supposed to mean? Anybody got a clue? |
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| Ozzy Osbourne – Over The Mountain Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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@[gerryLopez:46360] No. The album was released before they began the tour to promote it, and Randy was killed while they were on the road. |
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| Alice Cooper – Chop, Chop, Chop Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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@[jlb1987:46290] I've always thought the "M-A-R-Y -- Gail" thing was weird too, but considering your comment, I'm going with the hypothesis that he's so obsessed with wanting to kill Gail (whether he already has or not) that he's projecting Gail onto Mary, despite the direct evidence (the anklet) that she's not Gail. |
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| Alice Cooper – Gail Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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In concerts for the last few years (as far as I can tell), this song consists of Nita Strauss, alone on stage with a black shroud/veil on her head, playing an incredible guitar solo to the tune. |
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| Alice Cooper – Billion Dollar Babies Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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@[SonofSimmons1994:44298] But then again he chops up (or threatens to chop up) baby dolls during "Dead Babies", which is about a child accidently poisoning herself when her parents aren't watching. |
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| Judas Priest – United Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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@[hellfirecan:43922] hell yes, good to drink to! I first got drunk at my first concert, Judas Priest, when I was 14. Thanks for the reminder! |
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| W.A.S.P. – Animal (Fuck Like a Beast) Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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@[PineapplePrince:36613] - OK, maybe a consensual non-consent roleplay, a negotiated abduction/ravishment scene, but on the surface you have to admit it does sound non-consensual. |
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| Alice Cooper – I Love The Dead Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[uhjigali:28402] That's not entirely true. The one time I saw Alice live (heh heh), after the guillotine one dude made out with his severed head while the rest led the audience in a couple choruses of this. |
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| Ozzy Osbourne – Crazy Train Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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Other anti-nuclear war metal songs from the same period include "Fire in the Sky" by Saxon, "Two Minutes to Midnight" by Iron Maiden, "Stand and Be Counted" by Krokus, "China White" by the Scorpions, "Electric Funeral" and "Children of the Grave" by Black Sabbath, and I'm sure many others I can't remember at the moment. |
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| Ozzy Osbourne – Crazy Train Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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Yes, this song is about the nuclear arms race. It was written just as the Cold War was heating up, with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in office, and it was reasonable for those of us who were kids at the time to assume we'd be dead before we reached adulthood. "MAYBE it's not too late": there was only the slimmest hope at that time of surviving the politicians' insanity, the crazy train they were forcing us all to ride. "Heirs of the Cold War . . . inherited trouble . . . I just cannot bear . . . living with something that just isn't fair": spot-on description of how it felt to have been born into a desperate situation not of our own making, our lives threatened since birth by sheer stupidity. I'm a way, it's gratifying to me, as an '80s-era anti-nuclear protester, to see so many commenters miss the real meaning of the song, since it tells me they at least didn't have to grow up under THAT particular threat to our collective survival. May this generation carry on the good fight! |
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| Tim Minchin – Not Perfect Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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@[turricaned:19527] - Actually, my understanding is that gravity is caused by the local effect of an object's mass on spacetime, and the more massive and/or closer the object, the greater its gravitational effect on other objects, irrespective of the object's motion (rotational or otherwise). Am I mistaken? Thanks. |
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| The Rolling Stones – Sympathy for the Devil Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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@[viper67:12414] I might agree with you about most of these guys, but for the record, Alice Cooper is still a hardcore Christian, who sees his edgier stuff as sort of an ironic advertisement for the straight and narrow. (And it's entirely to Alice's credit that this atheist is still a huge fan.) |
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