Scream Bloody Gore

I guess with all that has been going on of lately with the BP oil spill, the Sestak job buyout, Obama cancelling trips to make himself look good in the public eye and the continual outrage on the Arizona immigration law, what else could we possibly add to the ever-exciting news cycle? An "inconvenient" breakup of the Gores? Should we be shocked, saddened, gleeful or ho-hum, grab the remote and keep channel surfing?

Ever since the whole PMRC thing went down in 1984, I just flat-out hated the Gores period. I couldn't care less what Tipper did, what she wore, how good she looked despite she went up and down like a yo-yo with her weight like a blonde Delta Burke in her own public show, in which I'll entitle, "Designing Nannies" with Tipper as ring-leader, Susan Baker, Pam Howar, and Sally Nevius co-starring. All four women were wives of prominent D.C. husbands that worked inside the federal government. This isn't exactly what you would call the "Golden Girls" in the world of Rap, Heavy Metal, Rock and any type of music that had a pulse or a message these women didn't agree with. These four women waged a jihad blaming rock music for rape, violence, drug abuse and teenage suicide. Defenders of the faith, Judas Priest were one of many bands accused of making a teen commit suicide due to their lyrics or some dumbass idiot thinking the music was subliminally back-masked and had the message encrypted. The Beatles did this too supposedly but no one ever brought them to the courtroom in the 80's. The PMRC held a Senate hearing in August 1985 to discuss and attempt to impliment censorship in music. The PMRC had many professors and psychiatrists testify on their part. Opposing them was Dee Snider (Twisted Sister) Frank Zappa, John Denver, Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys) and many more from the Rap and Pop communities. Technically the PMRC succeeded by forcing production companies to put the ever common Parental Warning sticker on the cover of explicit albums. The PMRC claimed to be acting on behalf of the American People. In reality, the PMRC was just a bunch of Washington socialites that wanted something public to do and this was one of the early stages back then of turning things into a "nanny state" thinking "parents are dumb, kids are dumb, we know what's best for you" mentality.

With that said, I just turned 40 and I still listen to the bands that were part of the "Filthy 15" like Motley Crue, W.A.S.P., Mercyful Fate, Judas Priest, AC/DC, Def Leppard and Venom. The rest of the list is an interesting array of others that included Prince, Sheena Easton, Vanity, Madonna and Cyndi Lauper. This is like comparing Lady Ga Ga with GWAR. Both have their own way of writing lyrics but Ga Ga is more sexual in nature while GWAR is just not hiding their vulgarity with interesting stage shows that have more than deviant props to get their point across but if you're the typical parent who never gets involved in what your kids do outside of the house or what they are into, this is what we get, another Judas Priest referendum, "Parental Guidance". Hence, big brother has to interfere.

The whole problem that Tipper and her succubuses engaged in just made albums and cassettes sell more of something vulgar, examples being Poison's original cover for "Open Up and Say Ahh!" and later Body Count's first pressing that included the controversial "Cop Killer" song (which I can say I own an original before it was pulled off the shelf)amongst splatter art from bands like Cannibal Corpse, Suffocation to controversial covers by Deicide, Exhorder and Sodom; I can go on forever since this is my area of expertise but you get the point. The number of gore, anti-religion and sexually deviant lyrics has quadrupled since 1984 and despite the stickers are still blazing all over the covers, it doesn't stop the kids from buying. Helps the artists but waters down what artists have to offer. The album cover could be spectacular but the music could really suck depending on what genre you're into.

So despite a small victory for the PMRC in those regards, doughboy Al and his "planet has a fever" campaign on global warming started thereafter during the overkill of the count-recount redundancy of the Bush election of 2000, in which to this day people think (as well as Al) Gore won. This was a pretty good setback for Al, Tipper and the whole Democratic party and the constant whining, bitching, complaining, moaning and groaning we had to endure seven months after the fact and a few blurbs here and there even in 2010. Al then concentrated on the global warming and eventually put out the "Inconvenient Truth" documentary which won an award; why i don't know but the whole Hollywood scene is just as whacked as anyone on the left and with a cherry on top, give the man a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts.

So what is left on the plate for today's Al Gore after a bomb was dropped over in England when emails were recovered that global warming was a hoax and Michel Mann and his cohorts were being investigated (of course, nothing has been really reported since then)? What about the $8.8 million house he and Tipper just obtained despite the old one still used that consumed in a yearly balance 80 times that more electricity and a carbon footprint bigger than 3 normal people while he preached his BS all over the world while he always used his jet? Is Al just irrelevant now after all this? Lose a campaign, your global warming theory is being shot to hell and despite you made billions off of it, ole Tipper doesn't find you relevant anymore or has the carbon footprint below your waist turned into a frozen tundra that Viagra can't fix? Or maybe either one of you two found a new love on the side, kind of like Edwards did and we'll get some sort of confessional from a Tipper Gore book or Al will pen a book since the money may dry up at some point.

Sort of makes you wonder if this relationship was anything but merry and be out of "convenience" like the Clinton's. I don't care if they had kids, that's just part of the mantra since you're in the public eye and people like this will do anything to shed a different perspective on things to sway the truth to another prism of light. The Clinton's were good at that. Remember the beach incident when we had to be horrified of Hillary's cottage cheese body in a bathing suit while Bill did a staged event with the pile of stones and put them into a shape of a cross and acting like no one was around? That's your typical PR moment and the Gore's, Clinton's and Obama's all engage or have engaged in it. I'm sure the Bush's have as well but nothing to this extent of blatant idiocy.

All you headbangers, moshers, thrashers, homeboys, hip-hoppers and rappers, stick to what you listen to and buy with your head and heart without the persuasion of "purists". There's plenty of other stuff you can be delving into that is worse off than just listening to music. At the rate everything is going with the FCC and radio, TV censorship, you may have to Fort Knox your collection up before "nanny" gets ahold of it. Remember, we're stupid, we can't think for ourselves and just because we listen to this type of music, we fit all the automatic stereotypes these elitists label us under. As far as Al and Tipper? You can't just throw 40 years away just like that without some other "entity" in the mix that made this story just appear out of thin air. I see something else in the bigger picture and hell, it may even be another diversion for Obama as things have been over the last several months with almost seemingly "planted" stories and the ones of importance being hidden on Fridays and holiday weekends. Like the great Judas Priest sang, "You've Got Another Thing Coming".