Posted on 02/21/2025 8:45:54 PM PST by algore
Just watch the television Yeah, you'll see there's something going on
Got no love for politicians Or that crazy scene in D.C. It's just a power mad town But the time is ripe for changes There's a growing feeling That taking a chance on a new kind of vision is due
I used to trust the media To tell me the truth, tell us the truth But now I've seen the payoffs Everywhere I look Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?
I'm tired of all this bullshit They keep selling me on T.V. About the communist plan And all the shady preachers Begging for my cash Swiss bank accounts while giving their Secretaries the slam
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prophetic
Well? What are those prophesies?
Not that I take them all at face value, but still, one never knows when you are speaking with an authentic seer.
I think most of us have such abilities, but in a spontaneous, undisiplined way, not at the snap of a finger.
just listen to the album linked.
59 minutes?
No thanks!
How about this instead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Fantastic album. Awesome story.
Ugh! No f-ing way.
You want prophetic, I'll give you The Tubes " what do you want from life " and " she's a beauty".
Operation Mindcrime was Queensryche’s attempt at a concept album; and is largely a polemic at Reagan policies and then-popular nondenominational TV preachers. Like other dystopian creations of the decade (V for Vendetta, for example), writers dreamed up a nightmare from such terrors as free speech, low government, and Christianity.
(queue the current meme where the kid constructs a cardboard hell and then cowers inside it in terror)
“Prophetic” is something like The Prisoner (1967) in which the current systematic means of control are enumerated episodically (and that’s just the surface layer of that series).
My favorite band!!!
Who is Dr X?
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Doctor Who?
Operation: Mindcrime is one of my favorite records.
I wonder if the revolution they saw coming is what the revolution would be when it came, and what its objective would be. 馃ぃ
Dr X is every populist politician that builds their following by rousing the rabble against “enemies”.
“The system we learn says we’re equal under law
But the streets are reality, the weak and poor will fall
Let’s tip the power balance and tear down their crown
Educate the masses, we’ll burn the White House down”
Speak lyrics
Operation Mindcrime album, Queensr每che - 1988.
One of the best albums every produced; that, and their Empire album.
Tracks
00:00 1. "I Remember Now" Chris DeGarmo, Geoff Tate, Michael Wilton 1:17
01:18 2. "Anarchy鈥擷" (instrumental) DeGarmo 1:27
02:45 3. "Revolution Calling" Tate, Wilton 4:42
07:24 4. "Operation: Mindcrime" DeGarmo, Tate, Wilton 4:43
12:03 5. "Speak" Tate, Wilton 3:42
15:51 6. "Spreading the Disease" Tate, Wilton 4:07
19:58 7. "The Mission" DeGarmo 5:45
25:44 8. "Suite Sister Mary"
36:25 9. "The Needle Lies" Tate, Wilton 3:08
39:33 10. "Electric Requiem" Scott Rockenfield, Tate 1:22
40:55 11. "Breaking the Silence" DeGarmo, Tate 4:34
45:29 12. "I Don't Believe in Love" DeGarmo, Tate 4:23
49:52 13. "Waiting for 22" (instrumental) DeGarmo 1:05
51:02 14. "My Empty Room" Tate, Wilton 1:25
52:35 15. "Eyes of a Stranger" DeGarmo, Tate 6:40
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