Thursday, April 26, 2012

Twelve weeks to go . . . .

It's time for another musical edition to be added to the 'Musical Countdown" to the Bicknell International Film Festival (BIFF). Going way back to 1969 and a song written by John Fogerty and performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival. CCR consisted of lead vocalist, lead guitarist, and primary songwriter John Fogerty, his brother and rhythm guitarist Tom Fogerty, bassist Stu Cook, and drummer Doug Clifford. The music makes this song sound like a happy tune but if you listen to the lyrics - - one hears bleakness and coming events of apocalypse!

Bad Moon Rising” rose to #2 on the charts, but soon after reports began to surface that the CCR was experiencing serious artistic differences and might breakup. The group officially stayed together, but tension, dissension, and discord prevailed. In 1972, the run ended for the CCR musicians.

People often mishear the phrase "There's a bathroom on the right" (
mondegreen) instead of "There's a bad moon on the rise." Fogerty himself has been known to occasionally substitute the "bathroom" version of the lyric as a joke during his live shows, including on his 1998 live album Premonition (Listen for it in this version).

John Fogerty (2010) performing "Bad Moon Rising"

I see the bad moon arisin'
I see trouble on the way
I see earthquakes and lightnin'
I see bad times today

Well don't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise

I hear hurricanes a blowin'
I know the end is comin' soon
I see rivers overflowin'
I hear the voice of rage and ruin

Well don't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise

Hope you got your things together
Hope you are quite prepared to die
Looks like we're in for nasty weather
One eye is taken for an eye

Well, don't go around tonight
It's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise

Don't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise

Friday, April 20, 2012

Week Thirteen - Knights of Shame by AWOLNation

The musical countdown to BIFF continues: This week's song is by AWOLNation, an Indie electronic, pop, rock band formed by Aaron Bruno in 2010. The band's first single, "Sail" debuted at #30 on the U.S. Billboard chart and was included on their debut 5-song album. Knights of Shame was cut on their first full-length album, Megalithic Symphony in 2011 - - it may be the longest cut selected for the Countdown, coming in at over twelve minutes.

Knights of Shame
(Link to higher quality but edited version with interview segment)



Lyrics (Or as close as I could get them):

Dance baby dance like the world is ending
[x3]
Dance baby dance like the world is ending
(x3)
Dance baby dance like the world is ending
(x3)
Dance baby dance like the world is ending
(x3)

This is who you are
[x3]
This is who you are
[x3]

Oh

Sit back and look for the warnings
The futures bright and alarming
Sit back and look for the warnings

Sit back and look for the warnings
The futures bright and alarming
Sit back and look for the warnings

What

Woo

Huh

Cool

They be walking around with your head cut off
They be walking around with your head cut off
Oh
They be walking around with your head cut off
They be walking around with your head cut off

Their power's fear and it surrounds us
Their signs, you can see
One day we will wake the walking zombies
'Til then we pray

Oo

Everybody

The king and his ghost are laughing at me
These signs, you can see
One day well listen for the sirens
'Til then we pray

Skeletons
Marching army
Guns
Drop your feet
I'm scared
I'm duke Ellington
My mother said there'd by days like this
But one of the fires lit made her piss
Calling all zombies
All up inside me
Transforming vampires
Right beside me
And you can't run
'Cause, you did, you'd be dead
And them walls can't run from the side of my head
I beat the ghoul
My beats are cool
But here's last kiss
All suckers
They will cease to exist
I can't entertain with a beat up human
Lay wast to cities
Leave towns i ruin

I am a robot
Whole arsenal stock
Ready to blow
Lastly you see
Me, be three by three
Firing these things called TNT

Fire these things called TNT
These things called TNT
They call me TNT
These things called TNT

Ahh,
We can dance like the world's over
Yeah it's almost 2012 
Call your girls over
Let's kick back
Pop shots
Have a ball
And if the world blow up
Next life, we do it all over

Uh, Yeah
Let's toast to the memory
I wrote my name in the sky
So remember me
Baby forever we
Together mentally
The day I leave my baby over something
Then helll'll freeze
Froze
This world cold like Natalie
So
Let's lose our clothes like Adam Eve
Back to the basics
Step out the matrix
Step out your cool
Baby, get on my spaceship
I seen her face lit
She seen a sign like a Mason
So we ran home like a base hit
Safe
Life is whatever you think it is
Yo,  what you think this is?

Uh
Yeah it's all in your mind baby
You gotta do what you feel, like a blind lady
You gotta spread your wings and just fly, baby
It feel like you're reborn?
That's my baby
She said she feel it in her soul like a vibrator
I got some things for your thoughts we can try later
Let's hit the dance floor
Right before we out of time
And just party like it's 1999
You know what prince said
Girl, you my princess
I got the glass slipper
I hope the thing fits
Your body on fire
Let me extinguish
hop on this white horse
Ride to the sunset

Is anybody really out there breathing?
Is anybody really sick of bleeding
So come out scream to the sky this evening
And 'fore the morning I'm a touch your feeling

Ha,
Let's start today!
Thank you, alright
Let's start today!
Woo, ah, yeah
Let's start today
Ha ha, yeah, wooo, okay
Let's start today

Start today
Start today
Come on down

The queen's heart
The knights of shame
The people's voice
So we pray and we pray
The queens heart
The knights of shame
So we pray and we pray!
The queens heart
The peoples voice
So we pray and we pray
The queens heart
The knights of shame
So we pray, and we pray

Oooooooo

And yeah it's no fun waiting for the fall
And there'll be no more waiting for you all
And there'll be one more chance for the truth
Without you, I would die
And yeah it's no fun waiting for the fall
And there'll be no more waiting for you all
And there'll be one more chance for the truth
Without you, I would die

I would die

Waiting on a heartbeat
Does anybody hear me?
We're waiting on a heart beat
Is anybody listening?

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Fourteen Weeks to Go

Who is counting down the weeks until the Bicknell International Film Festival? Are you with us or are you doomed (Doomed to miss out that is . . .  on one of the most fun, unique and sometimes quirky event in all of Southern Utah)? Festival co-founders Trent Harris and Lory Smith called this "the largest international film festival in southern Utah" and "the smallest international film festival in the world."

Checklist:

Two great bands are lined up for the Friday & Saturday night parties, food, fun, festivities, and more. There will also be a few surprises this year; you don't want to miss out!

Now this week's music selection:
World Destruction by Time Zone. Time Zone was an electro band headed by Afrika Bambaataa, an American DJ from the South Bronx, NY - - an originator in hip-hop music and culture, instrumental in moving the street gang, the Black Spades, into the music and culture-oriented Universal Zulu Nation. Bambaataa worked with different musicians for each Time Zone project. This song, a collaboration with punk-rocker John Lydon, is Time Zone's most well-known single. It was later used on The Supranos - in the first episode of the fourth season. The song played at the beginning of the episode as Tony gets his newspaper and again during the closing credits.

World Destruction (1984) by Time Zone

Speak about destruction. (x3)


This is a world destruction, your life ain`t nothing.
The human race is becoming a disgrace.
Countries are fighting with chemical warfare.
Not giving a damn about the people who live there.
Nostradamus predicts the coming of the Antichrist.
Hey, look out, the third world nations are on the rise.
The Democratic-Communist Relationship,
won`t stand in the way of the Islamic force.
The CIA is looking for defectors.
The KGB is smarter than you think.
Brainwash mentalities to control the system.
Using TV and movies - religions of course.
Yes, the world is headed for destruction.
Is it a nuclear war? 
What are you asking for?

This is a world destruction. Your life ain`t nothing.
The human race is becoming a disgrace.
The rich get richer.
The poor are getting poorer.
Fascist, chauvinistic government fools.
People, Moslems, Christians and Hindus.
Are in a time zone still searching for the truth.
Who are you to think you`re a superior race?
Facing forth your everlasting doom.
We are Time Zone. We`ve come to drop a bomb on you.
World destruction, kaboom, kaboom, kaboom!

This is the world destruction, your life ain`t nothing.
The human race is becoming a disgrace.
Nationalities are fighting with each other.
Why is this? Because the system tells you.
Putting people in faceless categories.
Knowledge isn`t what it used to be.
Military tactics to control a nation.
Who wants to be a president or king? Me!
Mother Nature is gonna work against you.
Nothing in your power that you can do.
Yes, the world is headed for destruction.
You and I know it, cause the Bible tells you.
If we don`t start to look for a better life,
the whole world will be destroyed in a time zone!

In a time zone (x3)
Speak about destruction. (x3)
In a time zone (x3)
Speak about destruction

Friday, April 6, 2012

Fifteen Weeks 'til BIFF

This was a busy week. Tickets for BIFF are now available for purchase online, and the first selected movie for the festival has been announced. Learn about that and more at Are You Ready for Doomsday 2012? And here is this week's installment for the musical countdown to BIFF!


Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones:
Written mainly by Keith Richards but also credited to Mick Jagger, Gimme Shelter is a churning, mid-tempo rock song about apocalypse. During a climate of social and political unrest - the late sixties amidst the violent Vietnam War, Gimme Shelter first appeared on the Stones' 1969 album, Let It Bleed. Richards strummed the opening on an electric-acoustic guitar modeled after a favorite of Chuck Berry'sIn an interview for Rolling Stone magazine, Jagger confirmed "That's a kind of end-of-the-world song, really. It's apocalypse: the whole records like that."


Gimme Shelter (1969) by The Rolling Stones

Umh, the storm is threat'ning 
My very life today 
If I don't get some shelter 
Yea, I'm gonna fade away 

War, children, it's just a shot away 
It's just a shot away 
War, children, it's just a shot away 
It's just a shot away, yeah.

Umn, see the fire is sweepin' 
My very street today 
Looks like a red coal carpet 
Mad bull lost its way 

War, children, it's just a shot away 
It's just a shot away 
War, children, it's just a shot away 
It's just a shot away, yeah.

I tell you rape, murder! 
It's just a shot away 
It's just a shot away 

Rape, murder! 
It's just a shot away 
It's just a shot away 

Rape, murder! 
It's just a shot away 
whoooa 

Um, see the floods is threat'ning 
My very life today 
Gimme, gimme shelter 
Yeah I'm gonna fade away 

War, children, it's just a shot away 
I tell you war, children, it's just a shot away 
It's just a shot away 
Love, sister, it's just a kiss away 
It's just a kiss away 
It's just a kiss away 
It's just a kiss away 
It's just a kiss away 
Kiss away, kiss away, yeah . . .