A LIFETIME OF MUSIC 1973-2011 (part 13)

1985. One year past George Orwell's expiration date. It was a strange time. The USA was being ruled by a puppet government, using the ever-progressing deterioration of Ronald Reagan due to Alzheimer's Disease to achieve their own ends of avarice and mass-brainwashing. It was an ugly, ugly time for the mainstream arts, as greedhead assholes cut arts budgets and school budgets. It was a good time to be rich and white and powerful. It was a terrible time for anyone else. The truly creative felt this and unleashed their creations. The music was the medicine, or at least the soporific, that we all needed. PRINCE was at his manic funky pinnacle, and anything he touched was gold, but he was offering his death for your happiness. METALLICA brought us their ode to loneliness, death, and oblivion, allowing the metal-heads to "feel it." TIL TUESDAY sang about the oppression of an abusive relationship. THE CULT brought back the bombast to rock and roll, reminding us that pure raw sexlove can provide shelter from the world's shit, if only for a time. NEIL YOUNG sang about heroin's beauty and toll at a concert to raise money for Ethiopian starvation relief efforts. THE SMITHS sang about "illicit" love in the face of violence and hate. -FUPPETS- remembers it as a weird time.

PRINCE - I Would Die For You

METALLICA - Fade To Black

TIL TUESDAY - Voices Carry

THE CULT - She Sells Sanctuary

NEIL YOUNG - The Needle & The Damage Done

THE SMITHS - Hand In Glove

A LIFETIME OF MUSIC 1973-2011 (Part 12)

1984. Did Orwell get it right and no one noticed?

GBH asked for fire. The God of Thunder became a War Machine. RUN DMC went off on sucka MC's. SLAYER shared their dark magic. Prince took us to erotic city.


GBH - Give Me Fire

KISS - War Machine

RUN DMC - Sucka MC's

SLAYER - Black Magic

PRINCE - Erotic City

-FUPPETS- Video Of The Day : PRINCE

Today's -FUPPETS- Video Of The Day is in honor of the current NFL playoffs and the upcoming Super Bowl. In 2007, in a driving rainstorm the likes of which had not ever been experienced in a Super Bowl, Prince delivered the best halftime show -FUPPETS- ever saw. Thanks be to Prince. The Super Bowl halftime show is usually the worst part of the entire day. Artists and bands just play these cheesy medleys of their own songs while Prince mixed it up in a great way, drawing from many different types of music and genres to entertain everyone. Prince is a HUGE Minnesota Vikings fanatic and knows what football fans wanna see. I do not think the fucking Black Eyed Peas are gonna do a thing to even come close to Prince's performance. Fuck em with a dead porcupine. The guitar solo on Purple Rain alone blows the entire recorded output of the Black Eyed Peas out of the water.

PRINCE - Super Bowl Medley (Part 1)

PRINCE - Super Bowl Medley (Part 2)