Heartland

a headline which might be appreciated by a well known rock'n roll singer

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/bush_a ... _thing.php

sort of -- it's hardly surprsing though, as it was Bush snr who first coined the phrase, roundly satirised by Von (and many others). Bush the First was accused of being short-termist and rather vaguely averred that he had the 'vision thing'.

in the song, there's also somethign about 'one million points of light' which was also a phrase Bush used in talking up america.

how prescient it all seems, etc, etc.

I doubt if even von had an inkling of the vile dynasty to follow though.

LR

thx for the info - in fact i wasn't aware of that
here is what i could find right now
http://www.kennesaw.edu/pols/3380/pres/1988.html

oh, well, the song is all about that election campaign ('take back what I paid for another motherfucker in a motorcade' etc).

there was a sisters lyrics analysis site that used to be good for this sort of thing. Here's the Vision Thing entry:

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Cl ... html#song1

They did a few of the songs and then went strangely quiet and didn't produce anything ever again... hmm. Now what/who does that remind me of?

LR

Now that's planning, huh? Von's last album concerned a Mr George Bush and the New World Order, the 'What we say goes' mentality, the short-termism, etc.

See? Von had it all planned out. He doesn't have to release a new album now--why repeat himself?

Actually, anyone notice that numerous industrial-type groups are all united in their hatred of Bush, and they make a now-tired point of repeating this in their albums:

Suicide Commando - Axis of Evil (see some of those song titles)
KMFDM - WWIII (yeah, see some of those titles, too)
Skinny Puppy - The Greater Wrong of the Right (yeah, Bush is the subject here as well)
Ministry - Houses of the Mole (worked 'W' into every single song title)
FLA - Civilization (suggesting that perhaps ours is coming to a close)

Something tells me that The SoM have played their last shows in the USA (how many years ago?)