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Date: June 2nd, 2003 Prokop The Lowest Common Denominator. I guess this is an all encompassing theme for me. LCDers are obviously the masses and sheep of society or crowds. It’s also about the dumbing down of ideas in order to get more people to like something. Making music, art or movies so simple and stupid just so Mr and Mrs Middle America understand it. It’s also the failure to strive for excellence and the complacency of people on the bottom to maintain the status quo. It’s also the people that refuse to remove the wool over their eyes and see how corporations, social organizations and governments manipulate people in order to preserve power. I dedicate this entire theme to Bill Hicks, RIP.
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1: Degenerated Reagan Youth - A Collection of Pop Classics |
Selection by: darpino |
Ever hung out in the WALMART parking lot on a Saturday night right after closing? |
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2: Consumers 45 Grave - Autopsy |
Selection by: diamond |
I once saw a TV interview with Dinah Cancer on some video show, she was nothing short of amazing. The interviewer asked her what she liked to do in her spare time, to which she replied, "Oh, I love shopping," while saying this she stiffened her arms in front of her in an impression of a robot and said, "I'm a little robot, beep beep beep." That was how they introduced the video to this song. |
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LARD - The Last Temptation of Reid |
Selection by: prokop |
Love, the poor mans soma. |
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Helmet & House Of Pain - Judgment Night : Music from the Motion Picture |
Selection by: darpino |
Yo man, I been tryin to get a damn J-O-B but the mutha fuckers don't want me. I guess it's cause a that bad leg I got after I fell off my bike and maybe cause I'm going blind from the glacoma. Thank god for weed man. Shit gets me through the day, ya know? Sheeit. Times are tough on a brotha. Got no job, a bad leg, foggy eyes, eight kids by six diffrent bitches. Shit, my old lady's welfare barely gets the rent. You know they best extend that unemployment next month. You know it or a brotha's fucked. But that's how it's all set up right? The Man'll do anything to keep a nigga down and out.
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Radiohead - OK Computer |
Selection by: diamond |
Pretty much the entire OK Computer album fits this theme. At least for me it does. Here are some notes to the song by the band members:
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6: Mrs. Jones Circle Jerks - "Gig" |
Selection by: prokop |
Welcome to Middle America, 1986. This was just about every family I knew when I was growing up. |
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7: The People of Straight Land Snog - Buy me...I'll Change Your Life |
Selection by: darpino |
Wake up...eat...work out...commute...work...happy hour...commute...eat...watch tv...pay some bills...sleep...repeat 5 times...weekend...yardwork...Home Depot...watch the latest Movie...social obligation...sleeping pill Sunday night...reset...wake up...eat...work out...commute...work...happy hour...commute...eat...watch tv...pay some bills...sleep...repeat for 40-50 years...die..."He/She lead a full and productive life"...burden children with funeral bills...and death tax...and inherited debts...and unresolved emotional issues...wake up in Hell...eat shit...commute for eternity... |
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Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician |
Selection by: diamond |
The human says, "Moooooo."
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9: Sausage People Rule (Chorizo Mix) Tit Wrench - OK you homos, out of the car |
Selection by: prokop |
I guess living in the nations capital I see too many ugly americans plodding along like cattle, dumping trash and hiding their fat little childrens eyes from anything questionable.
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10: RV Faith No More - Angel Dust |
Selection by: darpino |
For some reason this song always makes me think of Eldridge Cleaver's quote, "You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem." |
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11: People Boyd Rice and Friends - Music, Martinis and Misanthropy |
Selection by: diamond |
This has to be one of the most bitter rants against the masses ever recorded. What makes this song great, besides the bullseye lyrics, is it's cloaked in pleasant acoustic guitars and icy smooth vocals, which offset the misanthropic content perfectly. Play this for your mom one day and if she doesn't notice the lyrical content, she'll be humming it through the aisles of the supermarket while picking up the Sunday ham.
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12: Nation of Sheep Christ on a Crutch - Crime Pays When Pigs Die |
Selection by: prokop |
After slaving away working for the man, people jump quicker at becoming the next man, rather than banding together to make some real change. It’s my god freakin right to scrape by on minimum wage, and get laid off 6 months before my pension comes due. In fact, I would rather fight, kill, and maim to defend my right to be a slave to the corporate world rather then exert just a fraction of the effort to try to make things just a bit better for everyone. |
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Dead Kennedys - Bedtime for Democracy |
Selection by: darpino |
Prokop mentioned this is one of the ultimate Songs about the Scene and he's right, it is. But for me it fits for this theme more than any other song. It's about the scene degenerating into a mindless army of carbon copy punks with cookie cutter songs, but I think the whole thing is an LCD metaphor too. It's about how the Punk scene, for awhile one of the most original free-thinking scenes ever, can descend into mediocrity after being subjected to all the LCD canidates you can think of. More than that, it's about how all music scenes go through a similar cycle which really proves that these faults are Lowest Commmon Denominators and not just DPT (drunk punk tomfoolery). Finally, if these problems continue to happen over and over then these aren't just the problems of one music scene, or even all of the music scenes. These are problems for all of us. Biafra is singing about the Punk Scene but he could just as easily be singing about the Corporate Ladder or the Life Cycle and the same LCD's would be taking hold. Fucking great. |
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14: Sheep The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4 |
Selection by: diamond |
How could this happy sounding pop song be a rant against the people who crowd our sidewalks and roadways? That's what makes this one really excellent. It's the type of song that sounds nice enough to infiltrate the airwaves, but the message it's carrying is pure disdain for the blind, human sheep that surround us all. Now that's what I call quite good.
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15: Bite Back Negativland - Dispepsi |
Selection by: prokop |
It’s real simple. The more people continue to consume large quantities of crap from the big corporations, the more powerful the fourth and most powerful branch of government will become. Unfortunately marketing now defines the standard of life to too many people, and people don’t question or concern themselves with the fact we the people give them permission to run our lives. Just keep following the blinking lights..... |
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