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Godzilla

Blue Öyster Cult

[1977]
Scritta da Donald Roeser, in arte Buck Dharma (1947-), membro fondatore della band Hard rock newyorkese
Nell’album intitolato “Spectres”

“La storia dimostra ancora e ancora come la natura evidenzi la follia degli uomini...”

E nel caso del mostro Gojira - in occidente Godzilla - la follia umana è quella nucleare, che i giapponesi avevano provato sulla loro pelle solo pochi anni prima... Nel 1954, quando nelle sale uscì il “Gojira” di Ishirō Honda, rettile cretacico risvegliato dagli esperimenti atomici americani nel Pacifico, i giapponesi avevano appena cominciato ad elaborare un lutto, quello di Hiroshima e Nagasaki, che non sarà mai consolato...

Non sapevo però che Godzilla fu ispirato ai produttori del Sol Levante da un film statunitense, “The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms” (“Il risveglio del dinosauro”) del 1952, tratto da un racconto di Ray Bradbury (già, quello di “Fahrenheit... (Continues)

With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound
(Continues)

Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2015/12/29 - 22:04

Song Itineraries: Hiroshima and Nagasaki 広島市 - 長崎市, No Nukes, War against Animals, War on Earth

Veteran of the Psychic Wars

Blue Öyster Cult

Album: "Fire of Unknown Origin" (1981)
by Eric Bloom and British author Michael Moorcock (creator of Elric of Melniboné).
Covered by Metallica

[The song] may also be a dual statement on the media manipulations and war itself. Obviously, psychic wars going on here at home are just as important as the real war in attempting to convince the people that war is useful and going well. Weariness of a war going on far too long, along with an assault on personal liberty and privacy, is the message of lines such as "But the war's still going on dear / And there's no end that I know / And I can't say if we're ever... / I can't say if we're ever gonna to be free," and "It's time we had a break from it / It's time we had some leave."

from Metallica - The Anti-War, Anti-State, Pro-Liberty Metal Band?

Micheal Moorcock did cowrite this song (along with Black Blade and the Great Sun Jester).
He says the song is an allusion to a soldier's post traumatic stress syndrome. They keep living the horror in their heads.

Read more at songmeanings

You see me now a veteran of a thousand psychic wars
(Continues)

2012/11/7 - 22:32

Make Rock Not War

Blue Öyster Cult

(Bob Halligan, Jr.)
Album: Club Ninja (1985)

Moments of pleasure, in a world of pain.
(Continues)

2012/11/7 - 22:14