Planet Health

I love this song so much. It's like someone took what was so bad about the eighties, and made it good, musically.

And as to the meaning, that quote is exactly what I thought, but not so straight forward or literal. I was thinking it was just a reflection on the modern view of body image and health. It's a testament that the perfect, healthy lifestyle just isn't healthy for the mind. This is an idea I have always been adamant about. I love the lilting, dreamy tone of this song, as if everyone singing it is in a trance. Then the chanting of "Stop Drop and Roll." It's as if everyone is repeating it as a prayer to safety, and that the cry of "Stop!" is either a break from the mold of perfection, or a frenzied zealot of this "Planet Health" cult.

I think the song is trying to make kind of a stabbing and sardonic representation of societal expectations. A lot of people would assume that being healthy and making healthy children and leading a "healthy life" is something to really try to strive for right? As a means of preservation of life. The problem with this methodology of existence though is that it outcasts all people who do not fit into the criteria of being entirely fit to live on "Planet Health", or by society's expectations of a person living their life the "right way". Thus, they are sent into the cold abyss of nothingness so as to preserve the "perfect" utopia, Planet Health.

very dreamy song, definite 80's feel

love this song, helps me get straight :)

the meaning of this song? rehab?

btw, great song!

Maybe a near-death experience? Or drugs? Or both?

I just read somewhere that this song is about health classes in school. Makes perfect sense.

"Like the plot to a lost dystopian sci-fi, the song outlines life on "Planet Health" -- a place where body-image has become a tyrannical philosophy. Here, advice on healthy diet and sexuality has become law and the food pyramid has become a church. Of course non-attendance means eviction from Planet Health.

Planet Health is Mount Olympus sans the fun; a place where David Cameron and Gillian McKeith make out into eternity, never aging, never putting on weight. It's the other side of Radiohead's 'Fitter Happier', where the new caring conservatives have slapped lippy on the pig on antibiotics and called it 'sexy'. " NME 8/5/08

Amazing song. The lyrics here are a bit wrong though.

It's "surrounded by self-consciousnesses", not "so I altered my self-conscious messes". It's "garden of puberty", not "garden of purity". It's "forest of lungs", not "forest of loves".