Eerily Prescient Albums

Here's to Shutting Up is the eighth studio album by Superchunk. Brian Paulson, who served as co-producer, previously worked with the band on 1994's Foolish.

On this album, the band continued to develop away from the fuzzy punk-pop of its earlier days to something more textured. Keyboards, strings and acoustic guitars abound, and even a pedal steel makes an appearance on "Phone Sex."

The band left "Phone Sex" out of the initial performances of the accompanying tour; with the 11 September 2001 attacks a painfully fresh memory, the members felt uncomfortable performing a song featuring the lyrics "Plane crash footage on TV / I know, I know that could be me."

^^ release date was 9/18/01 btw

guys this is really really fun

bernard snowy knows whats up

GUYS RYAN ADAMS, TONY CURTIS, WTF

Ryan Adams looks like a fucker with some dark secrets.

The only album I ever got kinda weird about listening to post-9/11 was Firewater's Psychopharmacology, which was released in summer '01, mainly for the songs "Black Box Recording" (for obvious reasons) and "The Man With The Blurry Face" (which opens with the line "it started off like a regular Tuesday" and just generally alludes to some kind of vague murder/disaster situation).

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61fTuvN0FmL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

Note the 3 towers in the middle: 2 for the WTC and 1 for Tower 7. Surrounded by falling debris. Also track 6 is "Una Paloma Blanca" - a WHITE DOVE, a bird in the sky, like a jumbo jet. Side 2 features "Monster Mash" (no explanation needed) followed by "Give It Up" (ditto). Finally, the cover of Joy Division's "Atmosphere" opens the album with a foreboding mood. "Leave in silence" indeed.

Rating: Chilling.

The Man With The Blurry Face is particularly terrifying seeing as you could actually see the blurry face of Osama Bin Laden in the billowing clouds of 9/11 ash.

in 'all along the watchtower', written by jimi hendrix in the 70's-

There must be some kind of way out of here
Said the joker to the thief
Theres too much confusion
I cant get no relief

clear references to the confusion of those in the towers, the 'thief' of corporate america as represented by the WTC, and the villain 'joker' who perished by fallin from a tall building in tim burton's commie bashing 'batman'

in the denouement of the final verse-

Two riders were approachin
And the wind began to howl

self explanatory. chilling

guys i've just heard about this book 'TOLKIEN'

Ted Nugent's "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang" forsaw the crisis in Darfur, genocide in Rwanda and the subprime mortgage crisis. Some experts believe it also predicted the 2002 Bali bombing and the Pittsburgh Steelers fifth and sixth Super Bowl titles.

5th AND 6th? Ok I gotta call bullshit.

That's what i thought. It's a bit chilling.

yeah if you can't back it up then it doesn't belong on this thread. this is skull and bones level shit only right here

http://www.lisashea.com/lisabase/lowcarb/shrimpapp.jpg

why did this thread stop? not government pressure, i hope.

Ryan Adams looks like a fucker with some dark secrets.

― Pat Phoenix Wright, Messageboard Attorney (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 16 April 2009 16:42 (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

eerily prescient message board posts

I can recall some mentions of Reddit and Salisbury in a famous hit song by those visionary phrophets Chas & Dave

― calzino, Saturday, 7 December 2019 14:55 (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

what else can "it's time you got it off your chest" be a reference to but Novichok and the respiratory paralysis it induces?

In "Tobacco Road" John D. Loudermilk wrote about growing up in "filthy" Durham North Carolina. Near the close of the lyric, he concludes "Bring dynamite and a crane/ blow it up and start all over again"

https://www.discoverdurham.com/media/new-developments/

that's pretty chilling

did I read about this fucked up fake beatles pre-covers thing on ilx?

https://hallelujahthehills.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-the-beatles-as-channeled-in-1958-by-the-echo-lake-home-for-the-potentially-clairvoyant

Scorpions have already been mentioned above; on 1978's Taken by Force, they prognosticated:

Another king of rock is born in '77
Just born to be there when it's dark
'94, '95, if the world is still alive
With the start of the riot of your time
Here's a ticket for a burning train
To set the world in flame
To play the hero's game
The riot of your time
Here's a ticket for the future days
You'll be the guitar king
When your electric plays
The riot of your time
A new generation's mind
The riot of your time

Joe Bonnamassa was born May 8, 1977. Before he reached eighteen years old, Bonamassa was playing in a band called Bloodline with the sons of Miles Davis, Robby Krieger and Berry Oakley. Although Bloodline did not become a famous act, it attracted some attention to Bonamassa's guitar chops.