Re: Yeah, sung by Nena. Written by Joern Uwe Fahrenkrog - Petersen and Carlo Karges. -- Final End

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Date Posted: 14:22:55 06/23/02 Sun
Author: The Serpent
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Re: Yeah, sung by Nena. Written by Joern Uwe Fahrenkrog - Petersen and Carlo Karges.
In reply to: shauna 's message, "80's sure were something" on 10:32:34 06/23/02 Sun

It doesn't have that usual cock-rock feel to it like most eighties songs do.

The Eighties attack the Eighties:

M.t.v. Get Off The Air

Fun, fun, fun, in the fluffy chair
Flame up the herb
Wolf down the beer

- (click!) -

Hi, i'm your video dj.

I always talk like I'm wigged out on quaaludes.
I wear a satin baseball jacket everywhere i go.

My job is to help destroy what's left of your imagination
by feeding you endless doses of sugar-coated mindless garbage.

So, don't create. Be sedate!
Be a vegetable at home, and thwack on that dial.
If we have our way, even you will believe -

This is the future of rock and roll!

How far will you go
How low will you stoop
To tranquilize our minds with your sugar-coated swill

You've turned rock and roll rebellion
Into pat boone sedation
Making sure there's nothing left of the imagination

M.t.v. get off the..
M.t.v. get off the...
M.t.v. get off the air

Get off the air

See the latest rejects from the muppet show
Shack their tits and their dicks
As they lip-sync on screen

There's something I don't like
About a band who always smiles
Another tax write-off
For some schmuck who doesn't care

M.t.v. get off the air

And so it was
Our beloved corporate gods
Claimed they created rock video
Allowing it to sink as low in one year
As commercial tv has in 25

"It's the new frontier," they say
It's wide open - anything can happen
But you've got a lot of nerve
To call yourself a pioneer
When you're too goddamn conservative
To take real chances

- (tin-eared) -
Graph-paper brained accountants
Instead of music fans
Call all the shots at giant record companies now
The lowest common denominator rules

Forget honesty
Forget creativity
"The dumbest buy the mostest"
That's the name of the game

But sales are slumping
And no one will say why
Could it be they put out
One too many lousy records?!?

M.t.v.--get off the air!

Now!

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