Your most fitting soundtrack to define the ongoing social control and why

a reply to: HilterDayon

Immediately comes to mind: The Wall, Pink Floyd

Oh, this is an easy one for me. From the first time I heard it until now. This one sums it up.

From 1982 by the Alan Parsons Project



Lyrics

Pay no attention to the writing on the wall
The words seem empty cause there's nothing there at all
We let the wise men beat the drums too soon
We were just children of the moon

No one to turn to
Nowhere to run to even if we could
Too late to save us but try to understand
The seas were empty there was hunger in the land


We let the blind man lead the way too long
Easy to see where we went wrong
Nothing to live for
Nothing to die for
We're lost in the middle of a hopeless world
Lost in the middle of a hopeless world

Children children of the moon watch the world go by
Children children of the moon are hiding from the sun and the sky
Children children of the moon watch it all go by
Children children of the moon are blinded by the light in their eyes

No one to turn to
Nowhere to run to even if we could
Follow the pilgrim to the Temple of the Dawn
The altar's empty and the sacrifice is gone
We let the madmen write the golden rules
We were no more than mortal fools

Nothing to live for
Nothing to die for
We're lost in the middle of a hopeless world
Lost in the middle of a hopeless world
Children children of the moon watch the world go by
Children children of the moon hiding from the sky


I know you didn't ask for more than one, but if I may, I would like to add, for me, a close second from 2001

Mad World

Very close match that one in terms of both lyric and imagery.



"Where have you been? It's okay we know where you've been".

Ball of Confusion also came to mind. I'd only heard the version by Love and Rockets but this is the Temptations so maybe the original. Great lyrics

Guns and Roses - Civil war



Metallica - don't tread on me

a reply to: HilterDayon

Kinky Sex Makes the World Go ‘Round! The Dead Kennedy’s
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Aerosmith, My Big Ten Inch.

Think about the elites, they all kinda claim one....

One of South London's finest, the mighty Senser: Age of Panic

Either that or Killing Joke's prescient I am the Virus from 2015



Death misery and tears
Calculated waves of fear
Drawn up by think tanks
Theres a darkness in the west

Oil swilling
Guzzling corporates
Central banking
Mind-#ing omnipotence

I am the fury
The spirit of outrage
I am the fire
I am the virus...

Perfect.

a reply to: Redhead6971

A very interesting collection of themes so far guys. As old Bart would say: "Them's fightin' words".

- H

a reply to: HilterDayon

A few I had in mind already posted so another one from the 80s that fits the insanity...

Lunatic Fringe by Red Rider

Times Are Changing...


Clowns to the left of me
Jokers to the right
Here I am
Stuck in the middle with you.

Dirty Dems & Rinos to the left of me
Trumpers to the right
Here I am
Stuck in the middle with you.

a reply to: Whodathunkdatcheese

Killing Joke The Great Cull

Behold The Pale Horse by Charlie Daniels

Tom Jones - Talking Reality Television Blues

Simple...

And....



What else is there today????

Laurence Fox - The Distance

They have put something in the water
They seek a cure for the conversation
They stole a march on your indecision
And the first to fall is laughter
Just to quell the unoffended
They seek to murder your opinion

And the light has been turned down on the age of reason
Replaced by blinding fires that burn wild across the region
For the wrong to rule
The good must just stand idly by

So I need you more than ever
Need your hands in this resistance
If we're going to go the distance
And if I ever doubted
I think about my future
And if I want to live there

For those with trust issues and why you should have them.



a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

an oldie, but still relevant