It's like traveling back to a past life, and finding out that your previous life has actually been shaping this one, for the past 27 years.
Yesterday I was at a party listening to a band doing a cover of a U2 song. And it took me straight back to 1991, back to when I first heard the album Achtung Baby And in particular the song "The Fly" As well as an awesome guitar solo (starts at 2:40) there is a fleeting image of a sign saying "everything you know is wrong"
I don't know what happened to U2, like too many of my heroes they appeared to sell out and become the opposite of everything I thought they once stood for. But at that brief moment in time it all seemed to mean so much, and even when Bono was dressed as the devil with 666 on a screen behind him as he sang "All kill their inspiration and sing about the grief" I took it all to be exposing the new world order, not being it. Maybe that was naive, but to this day when I hear that guitar solo it still sounds like the truth.
I don't imagine many young people would realise how much some music seemed to mean back then, now that modern music is just Illuminati bullshit pumped out by talentless puppets.
Listening to this song reminds me how sure I once was that we could beat all the global controllers and win in the end. And this was like a soundtrack to that confidence. Was it all just an illusion? I really don't know, but at it's heart something in this song still rings true, whatever it's deepest intent may have been, and even if Bono was just a puppet as well - https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/05/08/the-banalities-of-bono/
Maybe one day great music will come back, I hope so - if someone had told me in 91 that in 20 years time, new rock music would be all but dead and gone I wouldn't have believed them
In 1992 I had a conversation with a guy I barely knew, but who I found intense and intimating. He told me about a bunch of stuff that I guess would now be called conspiracy theories. But it didn't all have a name back then.
That was my Matrix red pill moment, (seven years before The Matrix) and I took to it all like a duck to water. By the time the US government carried out the Oklahoma bombing in 95 I was up to speed on stuff like the new world order (NWO), the global elite, vaccinations, water fluoridation, the CIA, and a bunch of other things stuff not that many people knew about in a pre-internet era.
And in 2001 when the big 911 false flag was carried out, it was just as obvious then as are all the retarded false flags that America's zionist government now carry out almost monthly. (Wake up sheeple!)
While watching that U2 video again today I sort of ran into my past self, who basically laughed and told me that back in 92 he already knew about the stuff I'm thinking I'm only working out now.
My underlying way of quickly seeing it all was always "everything they tell you is wrong" To this day, that is probably the most important message I'm trying to pass on. And I think occasionally I run into someone here on Steemit who gets that.
Here are some lyrics that meant a lot to me in 91. They still do now even if most music turned to shit years ago. Even if we have to do all this stuff using computers now, we can still beat the liars, and refuse to ever be their slaves. Never give up.
It's no secret that the stars are falling from the sky
It's no secret that our world is in darkness tonight.
They say the sun is sometimes eclipsed by the moon
Y' know I don't see you when she walks in the room.
It's no secret that a friend is someone who lets you help.
It's no secret that a liar won't believe anyone else.
They say a secret is something you tell one other person
So I'm telling you, child.
A man will beg Love, we shine like a burning star
A man will crawl on the sheer face of love We're falling from
Like a fly on a wall The sky... tonight
It's no secret at all
It's no secret that a conscience can sometimes be a pest.
It's no secret ambition bites the nails of success.
Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief;
All kill their inspiration and sing about the grief.A man will rise Love, we shine like a
A man will fall Burning star
From the sheer face of love We're falling from
like a fly from a wall. The sky... tonight
It's no secret at all.Love, we shine like a burning star
We're falling from the sky tonightA man will rise Love, we shine like a
A man will fall Burning star
From the sheer face of love We're falling from
like a fly from a wall. The sky... tonight
It's no secret at all.
It's no secret that the stars are falling from the sky
The universe exploding 'cos-a one man's lie.
Look I gotta go, yeah, I'm running outta change;
There's a lot of things if I could I'd rearrange.
And now watch an awesome live Zoo TV version with all the messages on big screens right behind them (even 666 at 1:42) - "it's your world, you can change it"- just in case anyone doubts just how clearly they spelt it out back then.
But maybe none of it was ever really clear, and that is why U2 appeared to later go to the dark side. I have no idea now, but I do know that however evil Bono may have later appeared to become, in 91 the message I got from them was inspiring.
Did they say stuff like "believe everything" and "666" because they were evil or because they were drawing attention to what was happening. Maybe that is like an existential question for me...
https://forum.davidicke.com/showthread.php?t=183846
Reinventions rarely come as thorough and effective as Achtung Baby, an album that completely changed U2's sound and style. The crashing, unrecognizable distorted guitars that open "Zoo Station" are a clear signal that U2 have traded their Americana pretensions for postmodern, contemporary European music. Drawing equally from Bowie's electronic, avant-garde explorations of the late '70s and the neo-psychedelic sounds of the thriving rave and Madchester club scenes of early-'90s England, Achtung Baby sounds vibrant and endlessly inventive.
Unlike their inspirations, U2 rarely experiment with song structures over the course of the album. Instead, they use the thick dance beats, swirling guitars, layers of effects, and found sounds to break traditional songs out of their constraints, revealing the tortured emotional core of their songs with the hyper-loaded arrangements. In such a dense musical setting, it isn't surprising that U2 have abandoned the political for the personal on Achtung Baby, since the music, even with its inviting rhythms, is more introspective than anthemic.
Bono has never been as emotionally naked as he is on Achtung Baby, creating a feverish nightmare of broken hearts and desperate loneliness; unlike other U2 albums, it's filled with sexual imagery, much of it quite disturbing, and it ends on a disquieting note. Few bands as far into their career as U2 have recorded an album as adventurous or fulfilled their ambitions quite as successfully as they do on Achtung Baby, and the result is arguably their best album.
https://www.allmusic.com/album/achtung-baby-mw0000202435
