Amused to Death.......

Although I don't agree with Roger Waters Politically , I find this album to be absolutely amazing.
I was digging thru my CD's and grabbed this for the ride home.


From "wiki"
Like every studio album Roger Waters has recorded since The Dark Side of the Moon, Amused to Death is a concept album. This one is organised loosely around the idea of a monkey randomly switching channels on a television, but explores numerous political and social themes, including critiques of the First Gulf War in "The Bravery of Being Out of Range" and "Perfect Sense".

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 Another analysis here:


How real are TV images? Roger Waters, former bassist/singer/songwriter for the British supergroup Pink Floyd, answers this question in his album Amused To Death. Released in 1992, this elegant and beautiful 72-minute musical work takes the listener on a journey through Waters' mind as he examines the images shown nightly on television.
What does television do to our view of life? What is this machine doing to our society? Images. Images. Images. Consider images flashing rapidly before your eyes into infinity. What do these images hold?
The album begins and ends with an old man telling the story of the death of Private William Hubbard of the Royal Fusiliers. This man's tale of tragedy in the battlefields of World War I is one for which no photographs, and certainly no video tapes, exist. This is the type of story told through words -- a grandfather speaking to his grandson. If human history is to be told through television, these types of stories will vanish. At the end of the album, the storyteller's voice trails off into a field of crickets. "The Ballad of Bill Hubbard" is extremely important to the continuity of Waters' album. It shows that television can show many things, but not everything. A world which relies only on television for information will disregard other types of knowledge.  "MORE HERE"



This is the last song on the album:

I ....Just.....Died..................... kinda.....

Roger Waters + David Gilmour: Comfortably Numb, Live, O2 Arena 2011 

 

 Here is the link, embedding is disabled......

 "ENJOY!!!"

 

 

 

On Asking a Monkey to Dance......

Okay, this is a kinda of a roundabout way to get to a point, and tie in


some good posts and thoughts from others that I have read.


One of my commenters "JOHN" did a post about "ROGER WATERS"

and Water's comments on the OWS movement. 

I agree whole-heartedly with John as far as Roger's logic doesn't work.


Look,  I understand that people get fired up about their politics and beliefs in how things should be,


but I want to go to a concert or watch a TV show or go to the movies to be entertained.

When one of the moonbats making millions of dollars opens their mouths about how "I" should


be, I basically give them the middle finger. 



As I have stated before, there are much better writers on the blogs than I
and the following is a good example:
  

Somehow, I happened upon an older post over at "INJENNIFERSHEAD"  entitled 


"DANCE, MONKEY!"  . This post is succinct and she does a GREAT job of spelling out


the same feelings that I have about the moonbat entertainers and their political leanings.


Another blogger goes after their income:

Bubba, over at "WhatBubbaKnows" takes on an approach that hits them in their pocket books.


He will write posts entitled "DON'T FEED THE MOONBATS"  which basically points

out the hollywood moonbats that he boycotts, which is sadly ALOT of them.


Its too early to be thinking this much

I'm goin for my walk :)

Today We Celebrate.....

Happy birthday, Roger Waters (born September 6th, 1943)

 

 

 

Friday Night Floyd...............