Political Songs (Music Guide) - The Beautiful People, Everything Counts, Rock the Casbah, Barack the Magic Negro, Buf Songs, Chinese Democracy, Love of the Common People, When We Die as Martyrs, Re-Education, American Prayer (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 23. Chapters: The Beautiful People, Everything Counts, Rock the Casbah, Barack the Magic Negro, BUF Songs, Chinese Democracy, Love of the Common People, When We Die As Martyrs, Re-Education, American Prayer, Shuttin' Detroit Down, Cult of Personality, Songs for Tibet: The Art of Peace, Audience of One, Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums, Political Science, Fucking USA, Revolutionary song, We're from America, 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night, The Battle Hymn of Cooperation, Born Free, Padaj silo i nepravdo, Blue Sky Mine, Sonderzug nach Pankow, Illusion, Don't Believe a Word, Roll of Honour, Easy/Lucky/Free, Vossa Excelencia, Rauch-Haus-Song, God Bless Saturday, Burning the Lives, The Prisoner. Excerpt: "The Beautiful People" is a song from Marilyn Manson's second full length album, Antichrist Superstar, released as a single in September, 1996. An industrial metal hit written by Marilyn Manson and Twiggy Ramirez, and produced by Trent Reznor, Dave Ogilvie and Manson, its lyrics discuss two major themes: what Manson refers to as "the culture of beauty," and that culture's connection to Friedrich Nietzsche's theory of master-slave morality - the song's "weak ones," who are "always wrong," are oppressed by and exist solely to "justify the strong"; the kratocratic beautiful people whose power is, in a double entendre of phallic and religious implications, "relative to the size of their steeple." The single peaked at number 26 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and remains known as one of Marilyn Manson's most famous and most successful original songs; in a 2004 review, Richard Banks of the BBC called the track "still the most impressive" in the band's catalogue, and it was ranked in 2006 at number 28 on VH1's 40 Greatest Metal Songs. The song is also available as DLC for...