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Got no love for politiciansOr that crazy scene in D.C.
It's just a power mad town
But the time is ripe for changes
There's a growing feeling
That taking a chance on a new kind of vision is due
I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?
Those are lyrics from the opening track of this 1988 release which sits currently at number 86 on the Best of the 80's list. This concept album may have the most fully realized story of any I've ever heard. For that alone this album has to be pretty good.
This is when doing something like listening to albums on a countdown is fun. I would have never listened to this album if not for this and I found it to be a very enjoyable experience.
If you want to listen to a solid prog metal concept album, then give this a listen.
Following the Rhapsody rating method I give it 3 out of 5 stars for Pretty Good.
Is there more to the concept than "Ronald Reagan is a really bad guy"?
ReplyDelete:) It's about this young guy who is frustrated with the world around him and gets recruited into a terrorist organization. Similar to him there is a girl, a prostitute, who gets recruited in as well. She's his primary contact and he falls in love with her. Then one day he gets the word to kill her along with her handler.
ReplyDeleteHe does kill her handler, but tells her to run. Meanwhile he decides that this group he's part of is just as bad as the people he was trying to oppose and wants out. I got a little confused at this point, but I believe he ended up getting framed by the terrorist group for the murder of the girl he loved. In the end he's locked away for life.
I recently re-read a bunch of Doonesbury comics from the late 1980s, and I was surprised to see how enraged Trudeau was about everything.
ReplyDeleteOne of the things I claimed from my dad's pottery shop after he died was a big poster that he had gotten from American Heritage with likenesses of all the presidents up through President Clinton, I think. Underneath each picture is the years of the president's term, along with his party affiliation. I love this poster so much because Dad had gone through on about 20 of the presidents and scratched out their parties and written in how he thought they were more genuinely aligned. So, for example, he's got a whole bunch more people as Whigs. But the best part of the poster is that he's listed one of them (President Carter, I think) as just an "idiot" (no party). And then on President Reagan, he's drawn horns and labeled him, "Satan."
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