A FIERCELY DECENT TUNE FROM A KILLER U.K BAND FROM THE MID EIGHTIES . . . . AS IS OFTEN THE WAY WITH THINGS OF INHERENT WORTH AND QUALITY, THEY WERE COMPLETELY SHUNNED BY RADIO ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC FOR THE SAKE OF GUMBY FUCKWITS LIKE A-HA, KATRINA AND THE WAVES, LIONEL RITCHIE AND THE TIME HONOURED INVENTORS OF ELEVATOR MUSIC, THE BEACH BOYS, ON YET ANOTHER MAKEOVER . . . . SHIT, AND PEOPLE SAY THE STONES ARE PAST IT . . . FUCK ME !!! IF ANY OF THE BLOODY BEACH BOYS EVER WALK IN FRONT OF MY VALIANT, I'M NOT STOPPING !!!!
BUT I DIGRESS . . . . . . . . "WILD BLUE YONDER" IS POSSESSED OF CLEVER LYRICAL CONTENT, DRIVING KICK/SNARE PATTERNS IN SYNC WITH BASS AND A REPETITIVE, LOOPING, STACCATO GUITAR TRACK THAT COMBINE TO DELIVER A BRILLIANT, HYPNOTIC AND SLIGHTLY UNSETTLING PIECE OF POP GENIUS THAT FOR ME, SOMEHOW ECHOES THE LAST, DREARY, DIRTY DAYS OF AUNTY MAGGIE AND UNCLE RONNIE RAYGUN AND THEIR REIGN OF OUTDATED, RANCID RHETORIC ACROSS THE ONCE 'WESTERN' WORLD . . . THE GIG WAS UP, THE FAT LADY BEGAN HER WARMUP ROUTINE SOMEWHERE IN SOUTH AFRICA . . . .
IT WAS THE END OF AN ERA, A HUGE, BLOATED BEAST WAS DYING ON ONE SIDE OF THE WALL, WHILE ON THE OTHER, ITS LONG TIME TORMENTORS WERE FADING INTO SENILITY AND REDUNDENCEY WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY, FRANKIE STORMED INTO HOLLYWOOD WITH THE WEST END GIRLS AND MORRISSEY IN SUPPORT BUT, TRAGICALLY, IT WAS ALL TOO LATE . . . .
THE "EPIDEMIC" WAS UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH, AND A BILLION, FREAKED OUT, UNINFORMED HOMOPHOBES RAN WILD IN THE STREETS . . . BAYING LIKE RABID, PSYCHOTICALLY CRAZED CUJO'S AT THE GATES OF TOLERANCE AND LOGIC . . . AHH, THE SWEET SMELL OF HATRED MINGLED WITH FEAR AND PANIC AS WE STUMBLED, HEADLONG AND FULLY FUCKED UP TOWARD THE NINETIES, YES, LIFE WAS GRAND.
***** PLEASE, GENTLEMEN STILL NOT A'BED, CLICK UPON THE LINK BENEATH OR UPON POST TITLE TO BE TRANSPORTED ON HEAVENLY, GOSSAMER WINGS INTO THE "WILD BLUE YONDER" . . . . SCREAMING IN VAIN AS YOU GO !!!!!!
Screaming Blue Messiahs - Wild Blue Yonder - YouTube
BUT I DIGRESS . . . . . . . . "WILD BLUE YONDER" IS POSSESSED OF CLEVER LYRICAL CONTENT, DRIVING KICK/SNARE PATTERNS IN SYNC WITH BASS AND A REPETITIVE, LOOPING, STACCATO GUITAR TRACK THAT COMBINE TO DELIVER A BRILLIANT, HYPNOTIC AND SLIGHTLY UNSETTLING PIECE OF POP GENIUS THAT FOR ME, SOMEHOW ECHOES THE LAST, DREARY, DIRTY DAYS OF AUNTY MAGGIE AND UNCLE RONNIE RAYGUN AND THEIR REIGN OF OUTDATED, RANCID RHETORIC ACROSS THE ONCE 'WESTERN' WORLD . . . THE GIG WAS UP, THE FAT LADY BEGAN HER WARMUP ROUTINE SOMEWHERE IN SOUTH AFRICA . . . .
IT WAS THE END OF AN ERA, A HUGE, BLOATED BEAST WAS DYING ON ONE SIDE OF THE WALL, WHILE ON THE OTHER, ITS LONG TIME TORMENTORS WERE FADING INTO SENILITY AND REDUNDENCEY WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY, FRANKIE STORMED INTO HOLLYWOOD WITH THE WEST END GIRLS AND MORRISSEY IN SUPPORT BUT, TRAGICALLY, IT WAS ALL TOO LATE . . . .
THE "EPIDEMIC" WAS UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH, AND A BILLION, FREAKED OUT, UNINFORMED HOMOPHOBES RAN WILD IN THE STREETS . . . BAYING LIKE RABID, PSYCHOTICALLY CRAZED CUJO'S AT THE GATES OF TOLERANCE AND LOGIC . . . AHH, THE SWEET SMELL OF HATRED MINGLED WITH FEAR AND PANIC AS WE STUMBLED, HEADLONG AND FULLY FUCKED UP TOWARD THE NINETIES, YES, LIFE WAS GRAND.
***** PLEASE, GENTLEMEN STILL NOT A'BED, CLICK UPON THE LINK BENEATH OR UPON POST TITLE TO BE TRANSPORTED ON HEAVENLY, GOSSAMER WINGS INTO THE "WILD BLUE YONDER" . . . . SCREAMING IN VAIN AS YOU GO !!!!!!
Screaming Blue Messiahs - Wild Blue Yonder - YouTube
Nice selection dj!
ReplyDeletePat, cheers bro, glad you dig it . . . had a crack at the dj caper once . . . epic fail, give me a mic and a live band behind me any day !!!
DeleteI think most yanks saw them as, "Another bald lead singered funny talking band, NOT singing about Down Under or Vegemite".
ReplyDeletehomophobes, rednecks, wannabe badasses. Yep, we got 'em all, buddy.
Good song! Good days...
Thanks Cheesy, yeah mate, 'middle America' is a state of mind, not a zip code, but we got em by the narrow minded truck load downunder as well buddy, it's a global malaise . . . stay cheesy brother.
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