Pink

Have you ever really liked a song or an artist and then looked up the lyrics to one of their songs and been suprised at their content? Take this song for example; In The Flesh:

So ya thought ya might like to go to the show.
To feel the warm thrill of confusion, that space cadet glow.
I got me some bad news for you, Sunshine.
Pink isn't well, he stayed back at the hotel,
And he sent us along as a surrugate band.
We're gonna find out where you fans really stand.
Are there any queers in the theatre tonight?
Get 'em up against the wall. -- 'Gainst the wall!
And that one in the spotlight, he don't look right to me.
Get him up against the wall. -- 'Gainst the wall!
And that one looks Jewish, and that one's a coon.
Who let all this riffraff into the room?
There's one smoking a joint, and another with spots!
If I had my way I'd have all of ya shot.


Well I actually like Pink Floyd very much, and to tell the truth it doesn't really bother me to like a song that has strong racist undertones, because my liking the song has nothing to do with lyrics (and I have found a suitable excuse to justify my liking it) : For context's sake, THE WALL is a story about "Pink", and in a series of songs sung from his own point of view, he imagines himself in a hallucination to be a facist dictator, and orders his fans to go into neighboring villages to slaughter "indesirables".  This series includes songs like In The Flesh, Run Like Hell, Waiting for the Worms, Stop. The album producer alledgedly hired real skinheads for the shooting, which apparently nearly got out of hand.

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Google and wikipedia have become my lifelines to knowledge. I've been exposed to more random and not so random information in this past month than in all of last year! (though that might be due to me travelling around the world on a tall ship...) And to be honest, when it's about such small things its not important that they be ultra true and accurate.

I found a good website for explosives, but you have to pay to access all of the e-books they have. So that's that.