costello's working title for Armed Forces was Emotional Fascism. this is one of many songs which seem to be about love (or something akin to it), filled with phrases and metaphors borrowed from the Third Reich. Quisling BTW was a historical "stool pigeon," and his name is used in a similar manner as "Boycott" and "Comstock[ery]"
@foreverdrone Indeed, when I listen to Armed Forces I think of that alternate title Emotional Fascism which was mentioned in the album artwork. Quisling was acting Prime Minister during the Third Reich's early occupation of Norway - his name is now synonymous with stool pigeon or traitorous puppet.
@foreverdrone Indeed, when I listen to Armed Forces I think of that alternate title Emotional Fascism which was mentioned in the album artwork. Quisling was acting Prime Minister during the Third Reich's early occupation of Norway - his name is now synonymous with stool pigeon or traitorous puppet.
costello's working title for Armed Forces was Emotional Fascism. this is one of many songs which seem to be about love (or something akin to it), filled with phrases and metaphors borrowed from the Third Reich. Quisling BTW was a historical "stool pigeon," and his name is used in a similar manner as "Boycott" and "Comstock[ery]"
@foreverdrone Indeed, when I listen to Armed Forces I think of that alternate title Emotional Fascism which was mentioned in the album artwork. Quisling was acting Prime Minister during the Third Reich's early occupation of Norway - his name is now synonymous with stool pigeon or traitorous puppet.
@foreverdrone Indeed, when I listen to Armed Forces I think of that alternate title Emotional Fascism which was mentioned in the album artwork. Quisling was acting Prime Minister during the Third Reich's early occupation of Norway - his name is now synonymous with stool pigeon or traitorous puppet.