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KSU

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Kiedyś dadzą Ci karabin
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Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/3/6 - 23:24

Electric Spanking Of War Babies

George Clinton and The Funkadelics

1981

{spoken}
(Continues)

Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/3/6 - 21:40

Albright Monument, Baghdad

Propagandhi

[2000]
From the Album Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes
Dall'album Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes

[Recitative]
[Recitativo]

Wadia's best friend's youngest sister was denied a proper burial because for two days they couldn't douse the flames the allied planes had showered on her tiny body. And all the paper trails that lead to all the roads that lead to all these Basras make it seem like we're all just "collateral damage" waiting to be happened in some unforeseen Pentagon budget-drill. Today's Ba'ath regime is just the Red Scare of yesteryear. And I drink myself to sleep because I'm losing faith that any of us will ever amount to anything more than reluctant human subsidies, the moving parts in a death-machine, protesting their complicity, but waiting for somebody else to throw their body on the churning gears. I drink myself to sleep because I'm losing faith that we, here in the Cradle of Affluence can cease this... (Continues)

Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/3/6 - 21:26

2 Minutes To Midnight

Iron Maiden

[Adrian Smith/Bruce Dickinson]

"2 Minutes to Midnight" is the tenth single released by Iron Maiden and the second track from their 1984 album Powerslave. The single was released on August 6, 1984 and rose to number 11 in the UK Singles Chart. The song was written by Adrian Smith and Bruce Dickinson.

The song has references to the Doomsday Clock, the symbolic clock used by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. In September 1953 the clock reached 11:58, the closest the clock ever got to midnight. This occurred when the United States and Soviet Union tested H-bombs within nine months of one another. This song is clearly presenting an anti-war view. The first guitar solo is played by Dave Murray followed by a guitar solo played by Adrian Smith.

The opening riff of the song bears a close resemblance to fellow NWOBHM band Venom's earlier song "Welcome to Hell", Saxon's Power and the Glory and... (Continues)

Kill for gain or shoot to maim
(Continues)

Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/3/6 - 21:17