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11-06-2011 10:06 AM |
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Originally Posted by Il Duce
(Post 1116579)
wha? PG3 is one of his best solo albums
about Games - don't you understand "satire"?
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Listen man, there's a difference between good "satire" and name dropping dictators and imagining them as little children playing with bonfires. That's just insipid. If he wanted to ridicule them, he shouldn't have portrayed them as innocent children, because that doesn't make them evil. I recommend sitting down and listening to those lyrics thoughtfully and impartially, and just think about the concept. "War without tears"? Don't you think that kids would be more likely to shed "tears" than adults? I suppose there had to be something to rhyme with "frontiers", but that's no excuse. It doesn't make sense whatsoever. I can't think of anything more contemptible than an album filled with half-understood political nonsense.
And apart from those laughably clumsy inarticulate verses, don't you just hate the way that he got Kate Bush to sing "jeux sans frontiers" in that repulsive breathy gasp? It gets stuck in my head for ages.
There, the above paragraph is objective proof that "Games Without Frontiers" sucks.
For all that, I still think "Solsbury Hill" is a good song (if a little overplayed), and Peter Gabriel is still an interesting person (despite being an awful rock star). |
