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I wish more people actually knew about KMFDM enough to get the reference...

Ah well.

"Sex, Drugs, God, Cash! Sex, Drugs, God! America!"

(But let's keep on quoting her, because even when we quote her wrong, at least it means she said something worth saying.)

Superhero, KMFDM

You're so wonderful
Apple of everyone's eye
You're so clever
Multimillion-dollar smile

The world is your oyster and pearls are fun
Share them with everyone that you love
And you love everyone always all of the time

Missing link you eat your own dear
Bird of prey you can't control
In your world perception
Hazy

Connection precise
Cave in
Bow to the other side

You're a superhero
Demigod
No one anywhere anytime any which way but you
If the mirror speaks the truth we must aspire and work
Harder to be like you
'cause anything goes when you're a star

Regal elegant
You are bewitching and wild
Fifteen minutes a lifetime
They just don't apply

Shudder to think that if could ever be true
That anyone else is as lovely as you
You bear the name and the lineage that we desire

In the shutterbug-flash you look fabulous
With your made-to-order plastic-mask
You look so divine

I bet the KDE people are big KMFDM fans. They seem to use the same naming schema after all.

That is an awesome link - it makes me feel better about the last few albums I bought from KMFDM. Only one is listed as possibly contaminated by the RIAA. I think I will email the guys and find out.

Hey, if there are any KMFDM fans out there, start *BUYING* their albums. These guys deserve our support.

Yeah, sure, they're labled as "industrial," but isn't half of industrial electronica? KMFDM (and its temporary stint as MDFMK in 2000) are one of the best heavy industrial acts out there. And you won't hear them on MTV like that pud Moby, so this isn't your family friendly kind of music. Check them out at KMFDM.net and then get on your favorite P2P and get a sample of a song called "Stray Bullet." If you want electronica, that's the song to get ^-^

And if that isn't enough for you, check out Spire, Lucia, Schwein, Pig, Gravity Kills, and stuff like that ^-^

You myst be thinking of KMFDM...

I would point out, however, that there are relatively few "pro-war" songs. Artists tend not to be a very militant lot, you know.

Side note - for those who saw my reference to KMFDM but are unfamiliar with the group, they're notorious for being tongue-in-cheek about themselves and their musical genre. Most obvious example - in-joke references to half their discography in KMFDM Sucks. Their "serious" lyrics may use violent imagery, but advocate a position of nonviolence.

Back on topic again:

My guess is that CC, (as evil as their other business practices may be), isn't trying to "gird the nation for war" by "censoring" peaceful songs - they're just trying to create market share by providing a space as free as possible from anything that might remind people of the WTC attack.

For people who want news and updates, there's plenty on talk radio and the AM dial. For people who want to escape from all of that, there's CC's 50-75% of the FM dial.

(But I confess I'm still boggled by pulling "Walk Like an Egyptian". Sheesh!)

So I suppose KFMDM's Power and Son of a Gun are right out ;-)

So I suppose KFMDM's Power and Son of a Gun are right out ;-)

Every time I see an article from Jon Katz, I am filled with resentment. I feel like we, the so-called geek community (I am even ashamed to call it that) are placed behind glass and shown off to the rest of the world by him. Like a zoo, with Katz as the zoo tour guide.

Do you feel like a monkey, well as much squaking and squallering that has been going on about this, maybe some of us ought to? What ever Mr. Katz's roll is in this he has the ability to use his influence to shed some light on the topic, including how the "geeks" feel about it. Well now it's showtime, now we can swing on our little branches and hope that our random shrieks can be heard and if heard, understood. Another option would be to use this to our advantage, the phrase "steal the spotlight" didn't come from two bit crooks, MPAA aside. Now wouldn't be beneficial if we stood up, walked erect and became something more than idle entertainment for the masses, if that's what you feel we are. Again, do you feel like a monkey?

Now I seriously resent this type of attitude displayed in the previous post. Come on, do geeks need to jump on the "victim" bandwagon too? I have been following the events since Littleton, when the "witch hunt" began to find out why our beautiful and sparkly clean nation's kids were all of the sudden shooting each other? At that point it wasn't news, was it just the sub-urbanites trying to be hip and pick up on what the inner city kids have been doing for the last few years? Blah, no, there's always a reason, but this wasn't by far something new.

So let's blame the media, the music, the video games, TV, movies... need I go on? I feel I do. I was one of these kids when I was in High School; I certainly wouldn't have classified myself as a geek those years ago. I listened to the questionable music, I wasn't part of the "in" crowd. So I identify with these kids. I personally represented the musical outfit KMFDM previous to the Littleton shootings, I still represent them as MDFMK. When I noticed that they were being attacked for how one of those children had interpeted lyrics from one of their songs and had displayed them on the web for all to see, I was outraged on a whole social level, parents don't let the media raise your children, teach your children to raise the media.

KMFDM had even spoke out about this on their offical home page. Even before that, if you anyone had cared to dig to find out how KMFDM had felt about such social issues as these.

Now musicians all over are up in arms about this, In the last 3 months I've purchased more music that has been inspired by the Littleton and Colombine incidents. So just to restate, take example from the musicians, turn the light on yourself and say something, don't just chatter like a monkey.

There's a tendency today to absolve individuals from moral responsibility and treat them as victims of social circumstance. You buy that, you pay with your soul. It's not men who limit women, it's not straights who limit gays, it's not whites who limit blacks. What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don't have the nerve or imagination to star in their own fucking movie, let alone direct it.

-- Bernard Mickey Wrangle

Every time I see an article from Jon Katz, I am filled with resentment. I feel like we, the so-called geek community (I am even ashamed to call it that) are placed behind glass and shown off to the rest of the world by him. Like a zoo, with Katz as the zoo tour guide.

Do you feel like a monkey, well as much squaking and squallering that has been going on about this, maybe some of us ought to? What ever Mr. Katz's roll is in this he has the ability to use his influence to shed some light on the topic, including how the "geeks" feel about it. Well now it's showtime, now we can swing on our little branches and hope that our random shrieks can be heard and if heard, understood. Another option would be to use this to our advantage, the phrase "steal the spotlight" didn't come from two bit crooks, MPAA aside. Now wouldn't be beneficial if we stood up, walked erect and became something more than idle entertainment for the masses, if that's what you feel we are. Again, do you feel like a monkey?

Now I seriously resent this type of attitude displayed in the previous post. Come on, do geeks need to jump on the "victim" bandwagon too? I have been following the events since Littleton, when the "witch hunt" began to find out why our beautiful and sparkly clean nation's kids were all of the sudden shooting each other? At that point it wasn't news, was it just the sub-urbanites trying to be hip and pick up on what the inner city kids have been doing for the last few years? Blah, no, there's always a reason, but this wasn't by far something new.

So let's blame the media, the music, the video games, TV, movies... need I go on? I feel I do. I was one of these kids when I was in High School; I certainly wouldn't have classified myself as a geek those years ago. I listened to the questionable music, I wasn't part of the "in" crowd. So I identify with these kids. I personally represented the musical outfit KMFDM previous to the Littleton shootings, I still represent them as MDFMK. When I noticed that they were being attacked for how one of those children had interpeted lyrics from one of their songs and had displayed them on the web for all to see, I was outraged on a whole social level, parents don't let the media raise your children, teach your children to raise the media.

KMFDM had even spoke out about this on their offical home page. Even before that, if you anyone had cared to dig to find out how KMFDM had felt about such social issues as these.

Now musicians all over are up in arms about this, In the last 3 months I've purchased more music that has been inspired by the Littleton and Colombine incidents. So just to restate, take example from the musicians, turn the light on yourself and say something, don't just chatter like a monkey.

There's a tendency today to absolve individuals from moral responsibility and treat them as victims of social circumstance. You buy that, you pay with your soul. It's not men who limit women, it's not straights who limit gays, it's not whites who limit blacks. What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don't have the nerve or imagination to star in their own fucking movie, let alone direct it.

-- Bernard Mickey Wrangle