[Falconoffury]

If you want new rock with social commentary, get the new Green Day CD. It's a good one.

[Terran]

Here goes one. It's by A Perfect Circle, in the album Emotive, clip name Annihilation.


From dehumanization to arms production,
For the benefit of the nation or its destruction
Power, power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,
Life's no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms
From dehumanization to arms production,
To hasten the nation towards its destruction
Power, power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,
Life's no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms
From dehumanization to arms production,
To hasten the nation towards its destruction
Power, power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,
Life's no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms
From dehumanization to arms production,
To hasten this nation towards its destruction,
It's your choice, your choice, your choice, your choice,
Peace or annihilation

This is as close to it as I found it.
Anymore?

[Taskforce_Unity]

ill just mention one band. Skyclad

(Narration)
Nobody could have conceived in the final decade of the 20th century
That our humble affairs were being manipulated by computer interface.
Not a soul could have summised that the lives of billions were of
Less consequence than a decimal point in the stock exchanges of the world.

Rare few even questioned the relentless exploitation of our rapidly
Dwindling natural resources. And yet across the polished boardroom tables,
Beings immensely more devious than ourselves surveyed this defiled planet
With jaundiced eyes, and swiftly and ruthlessly, they hatched foul plots
Against us.

[Riddick]

I'm fairly certain that Maynard is well aware of PO. I remember reading an interview that he gave to Andy Langer a few years ago; he kind of off-hand mentions that the Chinese are coming. I took it as a reference to an upcoming resource war.

Plus, if you watch the video to the song, "Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rythm of The War Drums: there are plenty of oil references in it.

[smiley]

nomeansn: the day everything became nothing

The day everything became nothing, I was standing underneath a
streetlight, wishing I had a cigarette. I can't recall anything
unusual about it. If there was something in the air, if the skies had
clouded over, I wasn't aware, I was too bored to care. No thunder
roared. No lightning cracked. No missiles rained from the sky. This
was no sneak attack. There was just suddenly this awful lack. Things
had changed, that's for sure.

The day everything became nothing, you couldn't put your finger on
what had gone wrong. The alleys were still dirty; the garbage still
smelled; there was no panic in the streets; just a lot of grief--in
people's faces, in their eyes--a mixture of horror and total surprise.
This was no apocalypse. No one heard a voice from the sky, there were
no miracles at the 7-Eleven, no one screamed, no one even asked why.
It was just like everything had somehow, quietly died. So let it die!

I can't recall much of what happened next. I was on my way to visit
this woman I knew. All we had in common was good sex, and now I
couldn't even remember her address. A group of us, just strangers,
got together and we formed a committee to discuss the problem. We
talked about things like assured mutual destruction and emotional
responsibility. I couldn't remember my name, so I called myself Bob.
It's weird being a Bob, but I'll get used to it. I have to.

[jato]

Metallica- Fuel Lyrics

Gimme fuel
Gimme fire
Gimme that which I desire

Turn on, I see red
Adrenaline crash and crash my head
Nitro junkie, paint me dead
And I see red

one hundred plus through black and white
War horse
War head
Fuck 'em, man
White knuckle tight
Through black and white

Oh, on I burn
Fuel is pumping engines
Burning hard
Loose and clean

Oh, and on I burn
Turning my direction
Quench my thirst with gasoline

So gimme fuel
Gimme fire
Gimme that which I desire

Turn on beyond the phone
Swallow future, spit out hope
Burn your face upon the chrome

Take the corner, join the crash
Headlights
Alarms
Another junkie lives too fast

Yeah
Lives way too fast, fast, fast, fast, fast

Oh, on I burn
Fuel is pumping engines
Burning hard, loose and clean

Oh, and on I burn
Turning my direction
Quench my thirst with gasoline

So gimme fuel
Gimme fire
Gimme that which I desire
Ooooh yeah

White knuckle tight

Oh
Gimme fuel
Gimme fire
My desire

Oh, on I burn
Fuel is pumping engines
Burning hard, loose and clean

On I burn
Turning my direction
Quench my thirst with gasoline

Gimme fuel
Gimme fire
Gimme that which I desire

On I burn

[bentstrider]

Anyone ever hear that song by Bruce Hornsby and The Range called, "Barren Ground"?
I've got his Night on the town CD and that song seems to be so true of todays society. How they've burned up everything for future generations.
Chorus line of the song, "good seeds don't grow on barren ground. strong roots will never take hold."

[Geingreene]

TAPS.

[k_semler]

Blackened- Metallica

[Sencha]

Two songs that come to my mind are:

Nobody by Skindred

and Let the Bodies Hit the Floor by Eminem.

Preferably blasted out of the car speakers of an individual lower on the socio-economic ladder during a mass riot or something.

[smiley]

"This Could Be Anywhere" Dead Kennedys

Cold concrete apartments
Rise up from wet black asphalt
Below them a few carcasses
Of the long gone age of privacy

It takes a scary kind of illness
To design a place like this for pay
Downtown's an endless generic mall
Of video games and fast food chains

One by one
The little houses are bricked up and condemned
A subtle hint to move
Before the rats move in

This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
Those new kids at school seem cool
But dad says not to talk to them
Stick to your old friends
They're not our kind
So now there's lots of fights

So many people I know
Come of age tense and bitter-eyed
Can't create so they just destroy
C'mon! Let's set someone's dog on fire

Empty plastic
Culture slum suburbia
Is a war zone now
Sprouting the kinds of gangs
We thought we'd left behind

This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
Kids at school are taking sides
Along color and uniform lines
My dad's gone and bought a gun
He says he's fed up
With crime in this town

This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
Anywhere
Everywhere
I hope I'm gone before it explodes

I linger late at night
Waiting for the bus
No amount of neon jazz
Could hide the oozing vibes of death
My dad's a vigilante now
He's bringing home these weird-ass friends
Like the guy who fires blanks at his TV
When Kojak's on
Or the guy who shows off his submachine gun
To his sixteen-year-old daughter's friends
Whose sense of pride and hope
Is being in the police reserve

This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere-Everywhere

[Guest]

I propose an oldie:

Oil be seeing you in oil the oiled familiar places

http://solosong.net/seeingyou/seeingyou.html

[Terran]

A Perfect Circle, Emotive, clip annihalation.

From dehumanization to arms production,
For the benefit of the nation or its destruction
Power, power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,
Life's no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms
From dehumanization to arms production,
To hasten the nation towards its destruction
Power, power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,
Life's no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms
From dehumanization to arms production,
To hasten the nation towards its destruction
Power, power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,
Life's no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms
From dehumanization to arms production,
To hasten this nation towards its destruction,
It's your choice, your choice, your choice, your choice,
Peace or annihilation

[Laurasia]

"Silent Running" Mike & the Mechanics

Deja vu all over again - we've had a thread like this before or maybe I'm trapped in a time-loop.

Regards,

L.

[Ayoob]

Johnny Cash will be big, as will Hank Williams (Sr.). Robert Johnson will survive if there is any justice in the world. There will not be justice, though.

The soundtrack to the Apocalypse will be the following Slayer albums:

South of Heaven
Reign in Blood
the one with War Ensemble kicking it off
and God Hates Us All.

You might notice a little Tool in the background, too.

[guest]

I posted this on another thread, piecemeal. Here's the whole thing, The Ballad of Hollis Brown by Bob Dylan:

Hollis Brown he lived on the outside of town
Hollis Brown he lived on the outside of town
With his wife and five children in a cabin broken down

You look for work and money and you walk a ragged mile
You look for work and money and you walk a ragged mile
Your children are so hungry that they don't know how to smile

The rats have got your flour bad blood it got your mare
The rats have got your flour bad blood it got your mare
Is there anyone that knows is there anyone that cares?

Your baby's eyes are a pleadin' its a tuggin' at your sleave
Your baby's eyes are a pleadin' its a tuggin' at your sleave
You walk the floor and wonder why with every breath you breathe

Your grass is a turnin' black theres no water in your well
Your grass is a turnin' black theres no water in your well
You spent your last long dollar on seven shotgun shells

Way out in the wilderness a cold coyote calls
Way out in the wilderness a cold coyote calls
Your eyes fix on the shotgun thats a hangin' on the wall

Your babys cryin' louder now its a poundin' on your brain
Your babys cryin' louder now its a poundin' on your brain
Your wife's screams stab you like dirty driving rain

Your brain is a bleedin' and your legs can't seem to stand
Your brain is a bleedin' and your legs can't seem to stand
Your eyes fix on the shotgun that you're holdin' in your hand

Theres seven breezes blowing all around the cabin door
Theres seven breezes blowing all around the cabin door
Seven shots ring out like the ocean's poundin' roar

There's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm
There's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm
Somewhere in the world there's seven new people born

[Josephus]

"Escape from the Prison Planet" Clutch

[TyeDye]

Songs by system of a down

Boom
Prison

"theyre tryn a build a prison, their tryn a build a prison, for you and me"

[Ayoob_Reloaded]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('guest', 'I') posted this on another thread, piecemeal. Here's the whole thing, The Ballad of Hollis Brown by Bob Dylan:

Your grass is a turnin' black theres no water in your well
Your grass is a turnin' black theres no water in your well
You spent your last long dollar on seven shotgun shells

Way out in the wilderness a cold coyote calls
Way out in the wilderness a cold coyote calls
Your eyes fix on the shotgun thats a hangin' on the wall

[Itch]

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

Some things in life are bad,
They can really make you mad,
Other things just make you swear and curse,
When you're chewing life's gristle,
Don't grumble,
Give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best.
And...

Always look on the bright side of life.
[whistle]
Always look on the light side of life.
[whistle]

If life seems jolly rotten,
There's something you've forgotten,
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
When you're feeling in the dumps,
Don't be silly chumps.
Just purse your lips and whistle.
That's the thing.
And...

Always look on the bright side of life.
[whistle]
Always look on the right side of life,
[whistle]

For life is quite absurd
And death's the final word.
You must always face the curtain with a bow.
Forget about your sin.
Give the audience a grin.
Enjoy it. It's your last chance, anyhow.
So,...

Always look on the bright side of death,
[whistle]
Just before you draw your terminal breath.
[whistle]

Life's a piece of shit,
When you look at it.
Life's a laugh and death's a joke it's true.
You'll see it's all a show.
Keep 'em laughing as you go.
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.
And...

Always look on the bright side of life.
Always look on the right side of life.
[whistle]

Always look on the bright side of life!
[whistle]
Always look on the bright side of life!
[whistle]
Always look on the bright side of life!
[whistle]
Always look on the bright side of life!
[whistle]
Always look on the bright side of life!
[whistle]
Always look on the bright side of life!
[whistle]
Always look on the bright side of life!
[whistle]
Always look on the bright side of life!
[whistle]

Repeat to fade...