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? of the Day: What's the best song for NEO today?Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sun, 05/21/2006 - 16:27.
When you think about NEO today and now, what songs come to mind?
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NEO in Schism, Tool makes the pieces fit
From the awesome Maynard lead Cleveland rooted/routed TOOL - from hands-down one of the greatest albums ever - Lateralus - very interesting website - they toured with a concert to die at... now, remember that the pieces fit:
I know the pieces fit cuz I watched them fall away
mildewed and smoldering, fundamental differing,
pure intention juxtaposed will set two lovers souls in motion
disintegrating as it goes testing our communication
the light that fueled our fire then has burned a hole between us so
we cannot see to reach an end crippling our communication.
I know the pieces fit cuz I watched them tumble down
no fault, none to blame it doesn't mean I don't desire to
point the finger, blame the other, watch the temple topple over.
To bring the pieces back together, rediscover communication.
The poetry that comes from the squaring off between,
And the circling is worth it.
Finding beauty in the dissonance.
There was a time that the pieces fit, but I watched them fall away.
Mildewed and smoldering, strangled by our coveting
I've done the the math enough to know the dangers of a second guessing
Doomed to crumble unless we grow, and strengthen our communication
cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion
between supposed lovers
between supposed brothers.
And I know the pieces fit.
More Human Than Human
Thank you Rob Zombie for this inspiring ditty of this OZoney kinda Cle'land day - coming to the Amp this Summer...
Rob Zombie › More Human Than Human
Yeah I am the astro-
Creep a demolition
Style hell american
Freak yeah - I am the
Crawling dead - a
Phantom in a box
Shadow in your
Head say acid
Suicide freedom
Of the blast read
The f**ker lies yeah -
Scratch off the -
Broken skin - tear
Into my heart make
Me do it again yeah
Yeah
More human than human
More human than human
More human than human
More human than human
More human than human
More human than human
Yeah I am the jigsaw
Man I turn the
World around
With a skeleton hand say -
I am electric head a cannibal galore a
Television said
Yeah do not victimize
Read the mother
F**ker-psychoholic lies yeah -
Into a psychic war i
Tear my soul
Apart and i
Eat it some more yeah
Yeah
More human than human
More human than human
More human than human
More human than human
More human than human
More human than human
I am the ripper
Man a locomotion
Mind love american
Style yeah I am
The nexus one i
Want more life
F**ker I aint
Done - yeah
More human than human
More human than human
More human than human
More human than human
More human than human
More human than human
More human than human
More human than human
Song of the day: Gonna Change the World
Thanks again to Bone Thugs N Harmony for keeping NEO real... with Gonna Change the World, on BTNHRESURRECTION
12. Change The World Featuring Big B (ra | wav)
Raisin' hustlas, thieves, and prostitutes.
Young homie think before you shoot
Murderaaaaah.
Where will our children go,
When there no (nowhere, no!) place anywhere they can go?
And trouble may come and some time
You'll get pulled over by one-time
And when in 1999 rewinds didn even make any strides
Murder all around the whole world is nausiating
Everybody hatin' everybody over-rated
Why everybody actin' agitated?
I thought we graduated back in the saddle
Waitin' (board) aboard the battle station
Hation is a birth defect, and you know ain't nobody perfect,
And when the curtains close, open up the door, no more, no more.
See we's losing this world we love.
And it looks like the sinninwon't end.
So I'm reachinhigh up above.
Lord let Your blessings begin.
And let's change the world,
And let's change the world [worrrrld!],
Let's change the world,
Let's change the world [worrrrld!],
Let's change the world,
Let's change the world [worrrrld!]
Let's change the world, lets change the world [worrrrld!].
It got me ready to set off the riot.
Ridinwith my trues
Humbly united gathering souls.
Here we go, roll up some more Phillies.
My nigga let me hit it.
Niggas we thugginimmortalized,
Let's get high.
It's them niggas you most desire.
I could remember from way back in the day
Coming up out of the ghetto was a hell of a struggle.
For selling the fiends llello,
But it was my dream to kick flows to put my people on another level.
Like it'll be for the lust (lust).
Or could it be for the rush (rush)?
My niggas love when they bust (bust).
They steady buck and you duck (duck).
They'll put you deep in the dust (dust).
My niggas creepinon ah come up (come up).
Black nigga killa (killa).
Thuggish ruggish nigga.
Nigga pin it,
Nigga finna desend into a dawn of a new millennium.
Anticipatin,life without Satan.
Hatinand our enemies to hell I'm sendin' em.
And let's change the world,
And let's change the world [worrrrld!],
Let's change the world,
Let's change the world [worrrrld!],
Let's change the world,
Let's change the world [worrrrld!]
Let's change the world, lets change the world [worrrrld!].
Everyday the devil at me.
And I wish the Lord threw a hummer at me,
I ain't happy.
Me and Eazy-E in a B-E-N-Z
With my niggas right next to me.
It's my legacy,
We can't let it stop us,
Unh unh, not now.
The whole world endin' up the buck buck, pow!
Corruption, destruction, disaster,
Everybody tryin' to rap faster than the master.
Oh Lord, could you save my soul?
Nigga tryin' to go platinum around 40 years old.
The Lord knows we can do this shit.
It ain't no stoppin' us now 'cause we can prove this shit.
Nigga me, Stew, D's P.D., Freaky-G.
The whole world wanna be rappin' with me.
I'm in the flesh,
Let's talk about sex.
Babies havin' babies generation X.
With the AIDS epidemic we ain't pure no more.
And I know they got a cure for this shit,
We ain't rich.
First we lost Eazy,
Then we lost Pac,
Biggie got killled,
When this shit gon stop?
Everybody wanna know what's goin' on with the Thuggish Ruggish
Bone-Bone-Bone-Bone.
Tryin' to be prepared for the Y2K.
And if I don't die today,
I'm tryin' to change the world.
And let's change the world,
And let's change the world [worrrrld!],
Let's change the world,
Let's change the world [worrrrld!],
Let's change the world,
Let's change the world [worrrrld!]
Let's change the world, lets change the world [worrrrld!].
You need a message,
You could love our rappin',
But they tryin' to ban it
Realize it ain't gonna happen.
We done changed the world (world).
Ghetto voices bein' heard and felt,
You know it's funny.
Got my guns better arm yourself.
Most don't have a clue if it goes down what to do?
Don't you know this government ain't vote for me and you?
I have a dream,
No I have a wish,
If we can't save ourselves,
Damn, let's save the kids.
Let the world go on (go on),
Let these babies have something,
Let the world go on (go on).
Just don't blow this muthafucka up.
You kill him,
He'll kill you.
Some say it's stupid but violence really lives where I come from (come from).
Hungry little kids where I come from. (come from).
thugs like me where I come from. (come from, come from, come from)
See we losing this world we love.
And it looks like the sinninwon't end.
So I'm reachinhigh up above.
Lord let Your blessings begin.
And let's change the world,
And let's change the world [worrrrld!],
Let's change the world,
Let's change the world [worrrrld!],
Let's change the world,
Let's change the world [worrrrld!]
Let's change the world, lets change the world [worrrrld!].
Release Date: Feb 29, 2000
(Platinum Sales Status)
Track listing for CD
(EK 063581)
1. Show 'Em (ra | wav)
2. The Righteous Ones Featuring David's Daughters (ra | wav)
3. 2 Glocks (ra | wav)
4. Battlezone (ra | wav)
5. Ecstasy (ra | wav)
6. Murder One (ra | wav)
7. Souljahs Marching (ra | wav)
8. Servin' Tha Fiends (ra | wav)
9. Resurrection (Paper, Paper) (ra | wav)
10. Can't Give It Up (ra | wav)
11. Weed Song (ra | wav)
12. Change The World Featuring Big B (ra | wav)
13. Don't Worry (ra | wav)
14. Mind On Our Money (ra | wav)
15. No Way Out (ra | wav)
16. One Night Stand **BONUS TRACK**
Crossroads
Crossroads, by the East Side's own Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, from E.1999 eternal - too bad we couldn't help them succeed here in Cleveland, and they couldn't keep it better together.
Here's one of the best songs of all time, about life in Cleveland still today, for so many:
Bone bone bone bone bone bone bone bone bone
Now tell me whatcha gonna do when there ain't no where to run
When judgment comes for you, when judgment comes for you
Tell me whatcha gonna do when there ain't no where to hide
When judgment comes for you 'coz it's gonna come for you
Let's all bring it in for Wally, Eazy sees uncle Charlie
Little Boo, God's got him and I'm gonna miss everybody
I only roll with Bone my gang look to where they lay
When playing with destiny, play too deep for me to say
Lil' Layzie came to me, told me if he should decease well then please
Bury me by my grand-grand and when you can, come follow me
God bless you, working on a plan to heaven
Follow the Lord all 24/7 days, God is who we praise
Even though the devil's all up in my face
But he keeping me safe and in my place, say grace
For the case to race with a chance to face the judge
And I guess my soul won't budge
Grudge because there's no mercy for thugs
Oh, what can I do it's all about our family and how we roll
Can I get a witness? Let it unfold
We living our lives to eternal our soul
Hey, and we pray and we pray and we pray and we pray
Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday
And we pray and we pray and we pray and we pray
Still we laced, now follow me roll stroll
Whether is tell of his heaven
Come let's go take a visit of people that's long gone
Wally, Darris, Eazy, Terry, Boo
It's steadily creeping up on the family
Exactly how many days we got lasting
While you laughing we're passing, passing away
So y'all go rest y'all souls
'Coz I know I'ma meet you up at the crossroad
Y'all know y'all forever got love from them Bone Thugs, baby
Now Eazy's long gone
Really wish he could come home
But when it's time to die
Gotta go bye-bye
All a thug could do is cry, cry
Why they kill my dog and man
I miss my uncle Charles y'all
And he shoudn't be gone, in front of his home
What they did to Boo was wrong
Oh so wrong, oh so wrong
Gotta hold on, gotta stay strong
When the day comes
Better believe bone got a shoulder you can lean on
Hey and we pray, and we pray, and we pray, and we pray
Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday
And we pray, and we pray, and we pray, and we pray
Everday, everyday, everyday, everyday
Chorus
See you at the crossroads, crossroads, crossroads
So you won't be lonely (4x)
And I'm gonna miss everybody
And I'm gonna miss everybody when I'm gone (3x)
Living in a hateful world sending me straight to Heaven
That's how we roll (3x)
And I'm asking the good Lord "why?" and sigh
It's I he told me we live to die
What's up with murder y'all, see my little cousin was hung
Somebody was really wrong, everybody want to test us dawg
Then Miss Sleazy set up Eazy to fall, you know why we sinning
And Krayzie intended on ending it when it ends
Wanna come again, again and again
Now tell me whatcha gonna do
Can somebody anybody tell me why?
Hey, can somebody anybody tell me why we die, we die?
I don't wanna die
Oh so wrong, oh wrong
Round & Round (It Won't Be Long)
From one man who understands "Ohio"... Neil Young... next, check out "Living with War"... too bad he left Cleveland off his tour this summer (can you blame him?)...
"Round & Round (It Won't Be Long)"
Round and round and round we spin,
To weave a wall to hem us in,
It won't be long, it won't be long
How slow and slow and slow it goes,
To mend the tear that always shows.
It won't be long, it won't be long.
It's hard enough losin'
the paper illusion
you've hidden inside,
Without the confusion
of findin' you're usin'
the crutch of the lie
To shelter your pride when you cry.
Round and round and round we spin,
To weave a wall to hem us in,
It won't be long, it won't be long
How slow and slow and slow it goes,
To mend the tear that always shows.
It won't be long, it won't be long.
Now you're movin' too slow
and wherever you go
there's another beside.
It's so hard to say no
to yourself and it shows
that you're losing inside,
When you step on your pride and you cry.
Round and round and round we spin,
To weave a wall to hem us in,
It won't be long, it won't be long
How slow and slow and slow it goes,
To mend the tear that always shows.
It won't be long, it won't be long.
How the hours will bend
through the time that you spend
till you turn to your eyes,
And you see your best friend
looking over the end
and you turn to see why,
And he looks in your eyes and he cries.
Round and round and round we spin,
To weave a wall to hem us in,
It won't be long, it won't be long
How slow and slow and slow it goes,
To mend the tear that always shows.
It won't be long, it won't be long.
"One come a day, the water will run"... STOP
Stop: Jane's Addiction
from Ritual de lo Habitual
Save the complaints
For a party conversation.
The world is loaded,
It's lit to pop and nobody is gonna stop...
No one...
No one!
No way!
Gonna stop,
Now; go!
Farm people,
Book wavers, soul savers,
Love preachers!
Lit to pop and nobody is gonna stop.
No one...
One come a day, the water will run,
No man will stand for things that he had done...
Hurrah!
And the water will run...
One come a day, the water will run,
No man will stand for things that he had done...
Hurrah!
And the water will run...
Will Run!
Will Run!
Gimmie that!
Gimmie that - your automobile,
Turn off that smokestack
And that goddamn radio
Hum... along with me...
Hum along with the t.v.
No one's
Gonna
Stop!
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"Flight of the Bumble Bee"
For an ideal NEO July Fourth, warm and sunny, birds singing, flowers blooming, picnics in the grass with friends and family and watching fireworks in the evening, Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumble Bee" seems perfect to me. Classical music is so NEO!
The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest
This is personal choice, inspired by the great Dylan documentary on PBS rerun today - I love Dylan and he makes me think of my older son, so is all good, and his lyrics and music are as good as has ever been... and in them I find a message to my former partner Peter Holmes, a Frankie Lee, and I hope he learns from this Judas Priest before life takes him out in jest, everything revealed...
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Ubu dance party preview for Rocket From The Tombs!
From the greatest band in Cleveland History, Pere Ubu, still a major force in the art music world, led by Clevelander now Londoner David Thomas, who is just plain amazing in many ways... they still make a point to stop in Cleveland when they tour - I saw the concert for the timeless album I pulled these lyrics from, Dub Housing, in 1979, seen them in SFCA and NYNY, and I saw David just a few years ago for the amazing Rocket From the Tombs show... and they'll be back with another Rocket From The Tombs in a few weeks - WOW... start the Ubu Dance Party now
Song of the day: The Patient - Tool
Always #1 for making me patient - NEO rooted Tool
THE PATIENT
A groan of tedium escapes me, startling the fearful.
Is this a test?
It has to be. Otherwise I can't go on.
Draining patience. drain vitality.
this paranoid, paralyzed vampire act's a little old.
But I'm still right here, giving blood and keeping faith. And I'm still right here.
But I'm still right here, giving blood and keeping faith. And I'm still right here.
I'm gonna wait it out
If there were no rewards to reap,
no loving embrace to see me through this tedious path I've chosen here,
I certainly would've walked away by now.
I'm gonna wait it out
If there were no desire to heal
The damaged and broken met along this tedious path I've chosen here,
I certainly would've walked away by now.
I still may. And I still may.
Be patient.
I must keep reminding myself of this...
If there were no rewards to reap,
no loving embrace to see me through this tedious path I've chosen here,
I certainly would've walked away by now.
And I still may. And I still may. And I still may.
I'm gonna wait it out.
I'm gonna wait it out.
Gonna wait it out.
Gonna wait it out.
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Pigs in Zen - Jane's A... "Some People Should Die"
This is one of may fav' songs of a fav' album by fav' Janes's A (addiction, duh), and it is amazing thet the lyrics have been perverted my society - the album version is below, with the "Some People Should Die" rant, but when you do a normal search for the lyrics, at dozens of sites, even official, you find a cut-down version... how lame is this society? Here's the be real version, with the cut version below - are you a pig in zen?... even know what that means?
Jane's Addiction - Pigs in Zen
Entry Last Modified: 2005-09-19
Nothing's Shocking Version
Pig goes in the mud
When he tires
Pig's in zen
Pig's in zen
Pig is nude
Unashamed
Pig's in zen
Pig's in zen
Talkin' bout the pig
the pig
the pig - uh
pa-pa-pa-pa-pig
oh yeah,
the god damn pig!
Lets go!
Pig mounts sow
When he's wound
Pig's in zen
Pig's in zen
Pig eats shit
But only when he hungers
Pig's in zen
I know, the Pig's in zen
Talkin' bout the pig
The pig
The pig - uh!
The pa-pa-pa-pa-pig, yeah
The god damn pig
Lets go!
Yeah, so roses are red
I made up the rest
If you got some big fucking secret
Then why don't you sing me something?
I'm in the midst of a trauma
Leave a message- I'll call you back
Leave it by the bed
Some people should die
That's just unconscious knowledge
Because, because the bigger you get
The wider you're spread
You gotta depend on me
Now your vision is dead
The more your dream is dead
Visions...
It gets sucked from my eye
Like an eagle's claw
The pig
The pig
The pig
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pig
Jane's Addiction Version
Get up!
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Pigs in the mud
When he tires
Pigs in zen
Pigs in zen
Pig is nude
Unashamed
Pigs in zen
Pigs in zen
Talkin' bout the pig
The pig
The pig - uh
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pig
Yeah! A god damn pig!
Lets go!
Pig mounts sow
When he's wound
Pigs in zen
Pigs in zen
And pig eats shit
But only when he hungers
Pig's in zen
I know
The pigs in zen
I'm talking talkin' bout the pig
The pig
The pig - uh
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pig
Yeah, goddamn pig
Lets go!
Oh baby!
I know about war!
But I just wanna fuck!
I know about pain and suffering and being cold
But I just wanna fuck!
Pig is led to the slaughter
Pig is led to the sla....
This he said, is the price some pay
For a simple life oh!
How he feels
That's proof for him
Talking 'bout the pig
The pig
The pig
The pig
The pig
The god damn pig
The pig - uh
Pa-pa-pa-pa pig!
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Song of the day: of Velvet Underground
Best of the best - Velvet Underground (1969) - lyrics by Lou Reed:
Beginning to see the light
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Song of the day: Final Solution
Final Solution is considered to be one of post-punk band Pere Ubu's finest songs. It was their second single, and proved to be a massive success, helping propel them to a recording contract. The song itself dates back to the precursor of Pere Ubu, Rocket From The Tombs. When the members of Rocket From The Tombs split into the artistic Pere Ubu, and the punk The Dead Boys, Ubu took the songs Final Solution, Life Stinks, and 30 Seconds Over Tokyo. It ended up on the set list when Rocket From The Tombs reunited in 2003.
The song itself, however, deals with a case of suburban isolation. In Ohio, during the early 70s, the generation gap had begun to grow. While the rust belt began to form, disaffected youth took over the unwanted, abandoned downtowns of cities like Akron, and Cleveland. They helped rise to a new culture, spawning art and music movements. Music was especially prominent in the Ohio scene, creating some of the most legendary bands of any era, Devo, Pere Ubu, The Numbers, The Dead Boys, Rubber City Rebels, and a host more that never made it.
Of course, outside of the cities, in depressed suburbs, teenagers living with their folks were unaware of what was brewing in town. Either through their own ignorance, or parental disapproval, there was a rift between the youth of the suburbs and the cities. When someone in the suburbs was turned on to the growing scene, it was liable to distance them from not only their parents, but their peers as well. The lyrics of Final Solution deal with the narrator's reactions to his peers, his parents, and the world at large.
Because he's weird, the girls aren't interested. He stays out at night, and is pale. He doesn't understand the reaction, either. He just wants to have a little bit of fun! Even worse, is the reaction of his parents. He's thrown out for flaunting the fashion of the punk scene. They try and pack him off to military school to make him conform to society's demands. The lyrics draw a parallel between parental disapproval and Hitler's Final Solution to deal with the Jews. Just taking care of one punk isn't enough. They had to destroy the society.
In the end, our narrator sneaks to a concert, and escapes the drudgery of suburban life. He is among his own kind, in another world. This is his own final solution. It is a story in which any teenager who has felt ostracized for being in a subculture can relate to. Be they a geek or a goth or a punk, Final Solution is a timeless classic that will always speak to the disaffected.
Final Solution can be found on the Pere Ubu singles compilation, Terminal Tower, and in the box set Datapanik In The Year Zero.
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W.A.N.D.
my nomination for best neo song. The W.A.N.D. by the flaming lips
these crazies headlined blossom at the innaugural kuyahoga festival. it was a steamy feverish night that broke after a thunderstorm
unfortunately, i had to work, but the freetimes reported and the photo of wayne coyne says it all
It looks as if I can no longer upload files, so please email me if you want to me to email the mp3. oUtStAnDInG!!
The song The W.A.N.D.
Will Negates All Defeat
"(You've got the power in there)
(Waving your wand in the air)
Time after time those fanatical minds try to rule all the world
Telling us all it's them who's in charge of it all
I've got a tricked out magic stick that will make them all fall
We've got the power now, motherfuckers; that's where it belongs
You've got that right
(Power in there)
You know that it's...
(Wand in the air)
They've got their weapons to solve all their questions, they don't know what it's for
(Cause they don't know what it's for)
Why can't they see it's not power, just greed, to just want more and more?
(Just want more and more)
I got a plan and it's here in my hand but it's all made of rights
We're the enforcers, the sorcerer's orphans, and we know why we fight
(And we know why we fight)
You've got that right
(You've got the power in there)
(Waving your wand in the air)
(You've got the power in there)
(You've got the power in there)
(You've got the power in there)
(Waving your wand in the air)
You've got that right
You know that it's..."
from the freetimes review:
"Coyne's intuitions were right: When he saw the line-up for Kuyahoga, he said he thought, "Fuck, that's gonna be the greatest festival anyone can put on."
Song of the Day for NEO: Lay My Love
Since the earlies days of Roxy Music through all music-time since, Brian Eno has been one of my favorite forces. The following song, Eno acknowledges as a self-portrait (inteview note floows lyrics), is perfect for NEO and REALNEO today... "Lay My Love"
Interview notes about the song:
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In honor of Tax Junkies and Community Art junk
Tax junkie CPAC - Community Partnership for Arts and Culture - is on the Cuyahoga County art junk again, so I thought this was the perfect song for the day...
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Anarchy in NEO?
Sex Pistols... Anarchy in the UK
Right ! now ! ha ha ha ha ha
I am an antichrist
I am an anarchist
Dont know what I want but
I know how to get it
I wanna destroy the passer by cos i
I wanna be anarchy !
No dogs body
Anarchy for the u.k its coming sometime and maybe
I give a wrong time stop a trafic line
Your future dream is a shopping scheme cos i
I wanna be anarchy !
In the city
How many ways to get what you want
I use the best I use the rest
I use the enemy I use anarchy cos i
I wanna be anarchy !
The only way to be !
Is this the m.p.l.a
Or is this the u.d.a
Or is this the i.r.a
I thought it was the u.k or just
Another country
Another council tenancy
I wanna be an anarchist
Oh what a name
Get pissed destroy !
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Dead Can Dance - Don't Fade Away
When I saw a friend at Ed hauser's funeral she said "They Killed Him", and that is certainly true.
To those who killed Ed, I believe his spirit lives on - the Dead Can Dance - and Ed shall not fade away, and has the last dance.
Dead Can Dance - "Don't Fade Away"...
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