This is very disappointing, as “Eye of the Tiger” is the single best song ever in the history of mankind. Too bad Survivor had to go and PC Clown themselves. What exactly are they surviving? A SJW tongue lashing?
This article is a bit old, but I’m posting it know because it is part of a theme I am developing.
Conservative rocker Ted Nugent said he likes several of the GOP presidential candidates, but frontrunner Donald Trump would make an especially good commander-in-chief.
“He would kick *** and take names and that’s what America needs right now,” Nugent said…
The lead singer of Twisted Sister, Dee Snider, has given Donald Trump permission to use the song “We’re Not Gonna Take It” for his campaign. Snider says he considers Trump a friend.
… by Earl Dibbles Jr. This is from 2012, but I don’t recall hearing it at the time. It gets occasional airplay on our local “outlaw country” station which is where I first heard it. To be honest, I’m not sure it isn’t a spoof of redneck country. Earl seems to be playing a role in the video. I’m not going to nominate it for official Red State Anthem, because it is a little too lowbrow even for that, and if it is a spoof I don’t want the joke to be on me. But it is more evidence for my contention that country music is one of the few cultural venues that celebrates Redness. Anyway, give it a listen.
The following lines appear to counter one another:
We must believe in something
That I would call a miracle
The grail will break the final seal
We must believe in something
A miracle, a miracle machine
We just hide it secretly
For they are coming
Give us guidance
VS.
They don’t belong here
Though they claim they’re right
Let it grow
Turn off the light
Let reason grow
They will set it on fire
They come to fool us all
They are slaves to the Fire, you know
Their fire must grow
They have to feed it
If I’m interpreting the song correctly, it is similar to their song “Valhalla” with its line that, “No, no, we can’t live without Gods”. You have modernism attempting to eradicate all irrational ties, and you have attempts at surviving the onslaught.
The RadTrad position is in essence that man must serve something, particular ties and faith, piety to God and ancestors; that Reason alone falls to relativity and is a false substitute that cannot sustain a civilisation, only help destroy one, that Tradition often takes more into account than we realise and thus should not be readily opposed. Blind Guardian seems to have declared its allegiance to RadTrad in opposition to modernism, if ever there were any doubt. Such is the conclusion I come to anyway. Blind Guardian is also the band that “made Lord of the Rings cool” with a special album just for the book.
In the Elseworlds story “Castles in the Air” (Legionnaires Annual #1, 1994), a subplot involves a group of Legionnaires on a quest for the Miracle Machine, only to discover it was destroyed by Mordru. (The story is a pastiche of the story of King Arthur, with the Miracle Machine serving the role of the Holy Grail).
Nevertheless, I believe this song is intended to hold a deeper meaning as well. I’m not well-versed in comic books and graphic novels, I must admit. However, a solid concept could certainly stem from there as well as from anywhere else.
This isn’t a nominee for best Flyover Country Anthem because it doesn’t have those sorts of lyrics. I just like this guy’s voice. Very Waylon Jenningsesque.