The Global Village Idiots
When I hear this song I think of the internet, but it is not about the internet. Marshall McLuhan had coined the phrase "global village" referring to television and media. In his book The Medium is the Massage he describes the way the media pummel us with information. He wrote this back in 1969. If you read what he wrote, you would think he was predicting the internet. My guess is that he did not know what the internet was when he died in 1980.
What is a better way to express anxiety about these concepts then putting them to a punk/power pop beat. This songs takes McLuhan ideas, mixes in some big brother imagery and drives with a fast beat. These things together give it a conspiracy theorist feeling. There is almost a level of feel in this song. I really love those ideas.
Song: Divide and Conquer
Band: Husker Du
Album: Flip Your Wig
Best Lyric:
But who's going to stop that burglar
From breaking in my house
If he lives that far away
When I hear this song I think of the internet, but it is not about the internet. Marshall McLuhan had coined the phrase "global village" referring to television and media. In his book The Medium is the Massage he describes the way the media pummel us with information. He wrote this back in 1969. If you read what he wrote, you would think he was predicting the internet. My guess is that he did not know what the internet was when he died in 1980.
What is a better way to express anxiety about these concepts then putting them to a punk/power pop beat. This songs takes McLuhan ideas, mixes in some big brother imagery and drives with a fast beat. These things together give it a conspiracy theorist feeling. There is almost a level of feel in this song. I really love those ideas.
Song: Divide and Conquer
Band: Husker Du
Album: Flip Your Wig
Best Lyric:
But who's going to stop that burglar
From breaking in my house
If he lives that far away
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