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

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)

by AWOLNation

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?

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:

• Have you got your costume planned or put together?
• Getting ideas for decorating the vehicle for the "World's Fastest Parade?"
• Purchased your FastPass online (Gets you into all the events)?
• Have you started planning and producing a video to enter in the 2nd annual Independent Film Contest?

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

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's. In 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 . . .

BIFF Countdown - End of the World!

End of the World (1962) by Skeeter Davis - Sixteen weeks until BIFF

Mary Frances Penick (December 30, 1931 – September 19, 2004), better known as Skeeter Davis, was an American country music singer best known for her crossover pop music songs.

In this tear-jerker ballad, the end of the world is strictly metaphorical. But truthfully if the world were actually ending, could Skeeter Davis have sounded any sadder?. The opening lines are apocalyptic poetry: "Why does the sun go on shining? Why does the sea rush to shore? Don't they know it's the end of the world?"

Skeeter Davis goes on to wonder why the birds go on singing and ends with a heartbreaking sigh of "I can't understand how life goes on the way it does." I think that I might get a little bummed out if this song isn't playing when the Rapture comes.

End of the World by Skeeter Davis

Why does the sun go on shining
Why does the sea rush to shore
Don't they know it's the end of the world
'Cause you don't love me any more

Why do the birds go on singing
Why do the stars glow above
Don't they know it's the end of the world
It ended when I lost your love

I wake up in the morning and I wonder
Why everything's the same as it was
I can't understand, no, I can't understand
How life goes on the way it does

Why does my heart go on beating
Why do these eyes of mine cry
Don't they know it's the end of the world
It ended when you said goodbye

Why does my heart go on beating
Why do these eyes of mine cry
Don't they know it's the end of the world
It ended when you said goodbye

BIFF Musical Countdown - Seventeen Weeks Until the Eighteenth Annual BIFF

Counting down to the Bicknell International Film Festival, July 20 - 21, 2012. Reminder that there is time to plan, develop and create an original video and enter the BIFF Independent Film Contest. Check out the guidelines and enter. Now on to this week's music:

Symphony Of Destruction by Megadeth

Megadeth is a heavy metal band from Los Angeles. Formed in 1983, they along with Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax are recognized for developing the thrash metal sub-genre whose songs typically use fast percussive tempos and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead guitar work. Song lyrics often deal with social issues. So it is with this song - their most successful hit single from the 1992 album, Countdown to Extinction. Penned by vocalist and frontman Dave Mustaine, the song explores the hypothetical situation where an average citizen might be placed into a position where they can run the country while the public is led like puppets by a phantom government. The politician is assassinated causing anarchy and riots to ensue.

Symphony Of Destruction (1992) by Megadeth

You take a mortal man

And put him in control

Watch him become a god

Watch people's heads a'roll

A'roll

A'roll . . . . . . .

Just like the Pied Piper

Led rats through the streets

We dance like marionettes

Swaying to the symphony

Of destruction

Walking like a robot

Its metal brain corrodes

You try to take its pulse

Before the head explodes

Explodes

Explodes . . . . .

Just like the Pied Piper

Led rats through the streets

We dance like marionettes

Swaying to the symphony

Just like the Pied Piper

Led rats through the streets

We dance like marionettes

Swaying to the symphony

Swaying to the symphony

Of destruction

The earth starts to rumble

World powers fall

A'warring for the heavens

A peaceful man stands tall

A'tall

A'tall . . . . . . .

Just like the Pied Piper

Led rats through the streets

We dance like marionettes

Swaying to the symphony

Just like the Pied Piper

Led rats through the streets

We dance like marionettes

Swaying to the symphony

Swaying to the symphony

Of destruction

Eighteen Weeks To Go . . .

Written by Dave Matthews and Glen Bullard (keyboard, piano), never has the end of the world sounded so breezy, as in When the World Ends. The Dave Matthews Band sings in a laidback manner, “When the world ends, we’ll be burning one…” Matthews seems to assure that as long as he’s got his acoustic guitar, sandals and his 'baby' close by - - the transitions should be smooth and mellow!

When the World Ends (2001) by Dave Matthews Band

When the world ends

Collect your things

You're coming with me

When the world ends

You buckle up yourself with me

Watch it as the stars disappear to nothing

The day the world is over

We'll be lying in bed

I'ma rock you like a baby when the cities fall

We will rise as the buildings crumble

Float there and watch it all

Amidst the burning, we'll be churning

You know, love will be our wings

The passion rises up from the ashes

When the world ends

When the world ends

You're gonna come with me

We're going to be crazy

Like a river bends

We're going to float

Through the criss cross of the mountains

Watch them fade to nothing

When the world ends

You know that's what's happening now

I'm going to be there with you somehow, oh...

I'ma tie you up like a baby in a carriage car

Your legs don't work cause you want me so

You just lie spread to the wall

The love you got is surely

All the love that I would ever need

I'ma take you by my side

And love you tall, 'til the world ends

Oh, but don't you worry about a thing

No, 'cause I got you here with me

Don't you worry about it

Just you and me

Floating through the empty, empty

Just you and me

Oh, graces

Oh, grace

Oh, when the world ends

We'll be burning one

When the world ends

We'll be sweet makin' love

Oh, you know when the world ends

I'm going to take you aside and say

Let's watch it fade away, fade away

And the world's done

Ours just begun

It's done

Ours just begun

We're gonna dive into the emptiness

We'll be swimming

I'm going to walk you down the pathless roads

I'm going to take you to the top of the mountain that's no longer there

I'm going to take you to bed and love you, I swear

Like the end is near

I'm going to take you up to

I'm going to take you down on you

I'm going to hold you like an angel, angel

I'ma love you

I'ma love you

When the world ends

I'ma hold you

When the world is over

We'll just begin...