Phoenix Program Playlist

I am getting seriously pissed off with the West's pussy hesitation in launching a monolithic backlash in defense of our right to blithely exploit everywhere and everything. The Slayer track was apparently used to drive fighter pilots into a foaming-mouth frenzy during the last Gulf War, but I think the startling condescension and indifference of the Conn track would be a better martial anthem for the 22nd Century, as well as pissing off more people with its deceptive frivolity

Personally I wish the hawks in Washington showed a little more reserve with their get-your-retaliation-in-first saddamaphobia. Still v. useful distraction when facing tricky mid-term elections, the economy is in poor shape, and there is a strong stench of corporate corruption in the air

Dave Q always asks fascinating questions, he deserves a response, so this afternoon I’m been taking the ‘Dave Q challenge’ and listening to two tracks by artists I’m largely unfamiliar with.
Yeah I can see US Fighter Pilots getting off on Slayer’s heavy duty steroid-pumped riffing before flying off into combat:

Holes burn deep in your chest
Raked by machine gun fire
Screaming Soul sent out to die…
…Lying, dying, screaming in pain
Begging, pleading, bullets drop like rain
Mines explode, pain sheers through your brain
Radical Amputation, this is insane

Reminds me of a harrowing German documentary featuring Russian soldiers in the botched Chechnia campaign listening to 'Nevermind' before going into fight, and in many cases to die.

Conn’s clever, too clever perhaps, but clever. This genre-playing, this overwrought cod-soul, light on the surface with cynical lyrics mocking the American Dream underneath, wouldn't usually be my bag, but it works somehow. One for the more knowing policy wonks on Capital Hill determining future US energy policy than for fighter pilots.