70s/80s New Wave music symbolism

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EatZeBug said:
I hope that is the case. As cynical as I sound here, I do like to believe the best of people. I guess I see anyone who is on board with the 2030 agendas (read my early posts here) and dabbling in the occult (Yoruba) as suspect and there are some questionable lyrics (eg. "little pee pee, little toes" from Stay Up Late which is about a literal BABY) and I found the name 'David Byrne' on a Jeffrey Epstein mobile contact list , but there's a possibility it could be someone else give how common a name that is (especially in Ireland where Byrne is the 7th most common surname).
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Up All Night was about an actual baby and just wanting to play with them because they are cute. Thats what I got out of it anyways lol. I am intrigued by the Epstein reference... we should look deeper into that!
 
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I also notice that number is attached to Les Wexner directly... not sure if the Talking Heads had that kind of clout-connection!
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I forgot to mention this though, but I made a recent discovery that David Byrne's daughter Malu is actually secretly lowkey based. I looked on her Instagram and found her following accounts like Awaken With JP, Zuby Music and Project Veritas. A bleeding heart globohomo ESG ducksicking crony-corpo-commie-fiddlestick-cultist who think 1 millimiter right of Trotsky is Hitler wouldn't be caught dead following those. THERE IS HOPE! She's one to pray for and so is her little toddler, Bo.
I pray for her actually and I feel fer her too. I did some research and apparently she and her mother were abandoned by David Byrne after the award ceremony in 2002 at the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Induction (Which was the last time Talking Heads performed together) when he decided after the award ceremony "It's time to move on" and just left them like that without even responding to her mother's worried phone calls. I think Malu would have been maybe 12 years old at the time.
If my father did that, I'd probably develop opposing views to him as well because the outcome of a relationship is the fruits of a philosophy underlying that relationship.
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Anyone remember The Jam- r*pe and murder throughout the land and they tell you that you are still a free man. Honorable mention to The Stranglers who managed to offend everybody.
 
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EatZeBug said:
I forgot to mention this though, but I made a recent discovery that David Byrne's daughter Malu is actually secretly lowkey based. I looked on her Instagram and found her following accounts like Awaken With JP, Zuby Music and Project Veritas. A bleeding heart globohomo ESG ducksicking crony-corpo-commie-fiddlestick-cultist who think 1 millimiter right of Trotsky is Hitler wouldn't be caught dead following those. THERE IS HOPE! She's one to pray for and so is her little toddler, Bo.
I pray for her actually and I feel fer her too. I did some research and apparently she and her mother were abandoned by David Byrne after the award ceremony in 2002 at the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Induction (Which was the last time Talking Heads performed together) when he decided after the award ceremony "It's time to move on" and just left them like that without even responding to her mother's worried phone calls. I think Malu would have been maybe 12 years old at the time.
If my father did that, I'd probably develop opposing views to him as well because the outcome of a relationship is the fruits of a philosophy underlying that relationship.
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Outstanding investigative effort and results!
 
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Ladies and gentlemen, it was the Seventies! Yup, pop culture in general got rather saucy after the tumultuous period that was the sexual revolution of the sixties. Although it frankly looks frankly quite tame now.

Brooke Shields was the victim of a mentally unstable and alcoholic mother who tried to live her fantasy life through her daughter. She has admitted to it. Also her daughters were stunned after watching Pretty Baby and discussed it with Brooke. Their verdict? It was practically child porn. So they are under no illusions of what Hollywood was like in the past for young performers and their mother's experiences. Lets also not forget Drew Barrymore, who is right up there with Tinseltown's biggest hellraisers. She did pretty much everything under the sun. It's a miracle she got to fifty with some semblance of sanity. A lesser person would have been dead before twenty five. Unlike other walking disaster areas she had to start at the bottom to rebuild her career after the chaos that was her childhood.
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I am surprised no one has ever mentioned The Runaways. Their song Dead End Justice off their first album is still relevant today.
 
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I am surprised no one has ever mentioned The Runaways. Their song Dead End Justice off their first album is still relevant today.
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They were more proto-Punk than New Wave eh?
There was also this type of stuff from the 80's... I dont know if it classifies as actual New Wave, but I find it interesting for a number of reasons. It was essentially White people Electro-Funk (which both influenced and was also influenced by the urban Hip-Hop/Club/Dance tracks and scene of the day) and also had wide acceptance in the lgbt-community. So in certain respects, it broke a lot of rules and crossed a lot of genre-boundaries.
 
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TempestOfTempo said:
They were more proto-Punk than New Wave eh?
There was also this type of stuff from the 80's... I dont know if it classifies as actual New Wave, but I find it interesting for a number of reasons. It was essentially White people Electro-Funk (which both influenced and was also influenced by the urban Hip-Hop/Club/Dance tracks and scene of the day) and also had wide acceptance in the lgbt-community. So in certain respects, it broke a lot of rules and crossed a lot of genre-boundaries.
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Depeche mode in 80s was called "alternative music" albeit well known & always on the top 40 countdown, their concerts aways sold out even in small towns. Now that I'm older, I see I missed the "Violator" and "black Celebration" &"playing the angel" album Luci symbolism. Other albums include:
ULTRA (mk)
Excitor, (S-x)
DELTA MACHINE, (mk)
Sounds of the Universe, (his instruments)
Memento Mori (the inevitability of death.)
Speak and Spell, (God made earth spoken into existence)
A broken Frame, (music frame or physical? )
& ...Music for the Masses (wordplay on his fallen angel chief choir Church Mass task/ former job in Heaven).
 
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I just looked up "Condemnation" Lyrics to Depche Mode.

Condemnation
Depeche Mode
Track 3 on Songs of Faith and Devotion
1993

Condemnation Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Condemnation, tried
Here on the stand with the book in my hand
And truth on my side
Accusations, lies
Hand me my sentence, I'll show no repentance
I'll suffer with pride

[Chorus]
If for honesty you want apologies
I don't sympathise
If for kindness you substitute blindness
Please open your eyes

[Verse 2]
Condemnation, why?
Because my duty was always to beauty
And that was my crime
Feel elation, high
To know I can trust this fix of injustice
Time after time

[Chorus]
If you see purity as immaturity
Well, it's no surprise
If for kindness you substitute blindness
Please open your eyes
 
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