R.U.Ready?

[Laj Waldner]

Andrew Apold wrote:
>
>
> No, I love it....   and not in that same way, either.... I've always felt
> it somehow belonged into the Imaginos cycle, and picture a scene
> in the future, where some great calamity or cataclysm is hanging over
> everyone's heads, an impending doom or something, and during this
> a concert is held, perhaps by the imaginos character directly....
>
> "Everybody's praying"
> "To the station of night"

I though of a radio station playing music with a darker theme, preaching
to the ignorance of the masses, and getting people to finally listen.


> and
>
> "ain't gonna get those countdown blues"
>
> as the time grows increasingly short.

Cool, I've always liked to think that was a slam against top 40 radio
drones, the drones being the horribly predictable, close-minded, top 40
"only" radio listener, "Time to play B sides" :-). The "I only live to
be born again" referring to the awakening, when the "station of night"
converts the listener.

> What happens then, I dunno, not in the context of that song.
> Imaginos always seems to be there when things go bad, though, so
> his being there (this is all conjecture on idle speculation on
> my part) can't be a good sign.
>
> =============================
> "To dwell within Samsara, however, is to
>  be subject to the works of those mighty
>  among dreamers."
>
>  - Mahasamatman, in Zelazny's "Lord of Light"
>
> Andrew Apold

I do enjoy taking about lyrical meanings, your average Cult song can
bring on so many different images and interpretations, it's always fun
for discussion, definitely not black and white, closer to red and black
:-). Which reminds me of something Buck once said:

"Video really trivializes music, it really locks you into a mental image
that's not your own. It used to be when you heard a tune you used to
have associations in your own life with it, and now all you can think of
when you hear a song is what the video looks like. That's unfortunate to
me"

Not a truer statement's been spoken.

Laj.