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rfmcdonaldBack in the late 1990s, I saw an arresting video for an electronica song, centered around a hated corporative executive who was killed in a limousine fire as a result of a conspiracy by everyone around him: mistress, employees, wife, the people he fired, even his children. The video was memorable, but I really loved the hard electronic music and the biting vocals. Alas, all I could remember of the song was the chorus of "C'mon baby tell me/Yes we aim to please." For years, the song has popped up, earworm-like, frustrating me because I didn't know its origins.
And then, one day last week, I realized that I should Google it. This revealed 6 610 hits and took me to this page, the first hit, which told me that the song was Lo Fidelity Allstars' 1998 "Battle Flag". I went to YouTube, and what do you know, the poster back there was right.
It's an angry song, as the music and the lyrics reveal. The key to the song, I think, are the last two lines, "You want a revolution behind your eyes/We got together and organize." Whether it's a change of mind or a change of something larger, there needs to be a willingness to change.
It would have been impossible for me to find this song a decade ago, as I know all too well from personal experience. It would have been very unlikely for this video to have been played two decades ago. That I could find the lyrics so quickly and watch the video with such ease is one of the thing about our era that I love.
And then, one day last week, I realized that I should Google it. This revealed 6 610 hits and took me to this page, the first hit, which told me that the song was Lo Fidelity Allstars' 1998 "Battle Flag". I went to YouTube, and what do you know, the poster back there was right.
It's an angry song, as the music and the lyrics reveal. The key to the song, I think, are the last two lines, "You want a revolution behind your eyes/We got together and organize." Whether it's a change of mind or a change of something larger, there needs to be a willingness to change.
It would have been impossible for me to find this song a decade ago, as I know all too well from personal experience. It would have been very unlikely for this video to have been played two decades ago. That I could find the lyrics so quickly and watch the video with such ease is one of the thing about our era that I love.
