≡ Menu

Something Wonderful: Fanfare for the Common Man — Emerson, Lake and Palmer

by Vanderleun on March 15, 2020

For the emptied stadiums of the Earth

HT: pbird

Related Posts:

Comments on this entry are closed.

ghostsniper March 15, 2020, 11:34 AM

That took ballz.
One of my all time fav bands.

Link
Snakepit Kansas March 15, 2020, 3:57 PM

I don’t think I’ve heard that song since Wide World of Sports. Fun to listen to the entire thing again.

Link
Nori March 16, 2020, 12:17 AM

Cold stadium. Furred jackets,frosty breaths. Great music,great video.

From the Beginning remains my favorite.

The young Brits of that era produced some unparalleled music.

Link

Next post: This Just In

Previous post: Of the Trinity: When 1x1x1=1

Welcome to the New American Digest: 2003-2020

Only by Fire is Fascism Finished

Year upon year in Earth’s darker forests,
Heaped at the foot of the trees,
Dry drifts of wood rot and leaf fall increase
Which sunlight shall never seize.

The vampire by sunlight or stake.
The wolfman by silver in bone.
The demon by bell, book, and pentagram.
The fascist by fire alone.

The ash that descends in the September skies
Where the leapers swam down the stones?
Best answered by bombs from mid-heaven at prayer
With that fire which hollows the bones.

The vampire by sunlight or stake.
The wolfman by silver in bone.
The demon by bell, book, and pentagram.
The fascist by fire alone.

If their god decrees war, God’s war shall prevail.
His lessons are seared in His stone.
No dreams shall defer, nor wishes erase,
The answers that burn in the bone.

The vampire by sunlight or stake.
The wolfman by silver in bone.
The demon by bell, book, and pentagram.
The fascist by fire alone.

Only by Fire is Fascism Finished.
This Sin is demanded that Your Line may Live.
Only through Fire is Freedom Reborn.
Each generation pulls the Sword from the Stone.

— Van der Leun

My Back Pages

Van der Leun: The Normblog Bio of Your Host“From a student radical/hippie/leftist of the Free Speech Movement/Vietnam Day Commitee era and a full-on Democratic Liberal in the decades after, I think I’ve evolved a politics that is neither right nor left but is, in its elemental nature, draconian. In the last 20 years, I’ve taken apart my beliefs with a sledgehammer. Now I’ve got to put the surviving parts back together with tweezers and other ‘shabby equipment, always deteriorating’.”