Bellamy’s bleeding heart lyrics have always been best served for his bleeding heart tales of love’s labour’s lost rather than liberal agendas as evidenced here with the floating turd that is “The United States of Eurasia.”
“Who is this guy, Hussein? He’s got a little fucking country, and he’s gonna take on the world? Give me a fucking break. Besides, give me a gun and I’ll go shoot the guy myself.
On past albums there seemed something self-righteous about a man who wanted us to believe he cared about the world’s problems when he couldn’t even solve his own.
By the time he was eight, Eddie Van Halen had become a piano virtuoso, taking lessons with money his parents earned washing dishes and cleaning houses.
“My father’s still waiting for me to get a real job,” Johnson laughs.
BAM
CD Review
Melvins
Stag (Atlantic/Mammoth)
Rating: Four umbrellas
The greatest concept album since Venom’s At War With Satan, Stag presents a whirling dervish tailspin through a euphoric psychosis (chemically induced or otherwise) where our Mevinic hero (King Buzzo) gets blasted off to Planet High to lead a legion of warriors into battle against the forces of common decency. [...]
http://toolshed.down.net/articles/text/bam.nov.93.htmlPublication: BAM
Date: November 1993
Transcribed by “St. Michael Reed” (mung@u.washington.edu)
title: Sob Story – Tool Will Give You Something To Cry About
author: Scott Schalin
”Do for others what you want them to do for you.” -Matthew 7:12
”Do unto others what has been done to you.” -”Prison Sex,” from Tool’s Undertow
Little did Jesus’ disciple realize when he [...]
Singer Maynard James Keenan’s cutting insights are even more oblique with the possible exception of the clear-cut anger barrage, “Hooker With a Penis” (just in time for Christmas!).