God-Bashers - the Album. 20 All-Time Atheistic Greats.

[zakt]

OK, we've had country and western hymns of praise,
We've had Cliff Richard and his virginal ways;
Van Morrison, the Osmonds, Dylan (for a while) -
They all spread their message with a beatific smile.
It's time to get our own back, it's time to hit the streets
With the very best in sceptical and agnostic beats: :D

1. Public Image Limited: Religion (from first album)
2. Roy Harper: If (from "Once")
3. Frank Zappa: Dumb All Over (a Little Ugly on the Side) (from "You Are What You Is")
4. Dead Kennedys: I Kill Children (from "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables")
5. Randy Newman: God's Song (That's Why I love Mankind)

... only 15 to go (Roy Harper's got a few more but let's spread the load), all contributions gratefully received.

"Jesus Christ - Come on Down!"

[DeeCrowSeer]

6. Jello Biafra and Mojo Nixon: Plastic Jesus (from 'Prairie Home Invasion')
7. Iron Maiden: Holy Smoke (from 'No Prayer For The Dying')
8. Nirvana: Jesus Doesn't Want Me For a Sunbeam (from 'MTV Unplugged in New York')

:twisted:

[Omaru]

The list wouldn't be complete without:
Rush - Freewill

[Whiskers]

The Police - Oh My God ("How can I turn the other cheek? It's black and bruised and torn.")

Concrete Blond - God Is A Bullet ("I've got a badge and gun and I've joined the P.D.")

XTC - Dear God ("The hurt I see helps to compound, that the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, Is just somebody's unholy hoax,")

Wesley Willis - Girls On Film ("Take me up like a shooting star!")

[DeeCrowSeer]

Concrete Blond - God Is A Bullet

I know this is off-topic, but never before have I met another Concrete Blond fan, and now I join this forum and they're being mentioned all over the place! I'm glad to see I'm not alone in this. Bless you all!

D...

[Whiskers]

I've listened for years. I must point out that I got onto the band wagon round about the Anne Rice phase of my life. They weren't all that popular in L.A. until that album. BLOODLETTING is such a beautiful piece of work. I am from L.A. and if L.A.'s music scene is all local stuff and big time Hollywood, then this band qualifies as an obscure L.A. band that hit the shelf. A very unusual suite of rock and vocals. She is so breathy. Her voice is the voice of the sexually fantastic LA that I have always known and loved. When I listen to Concrete Blond, I miss L.A. mightily.

Concrete Blond - God Is A Bullet

I know this is off-topic, but never before have I met another Concrete Blond fan, and now I join this forum and they're being mentioned all over the place! I'm glad to see I'm not alone in this. Bless you all!

D...

[Whiskers]

Concrete Blonde - Tomorrow, Wendy

[DeeCrowSeer]

I've listened for years. I must point out that I got onto the band wagon round about the Anne Rice phase of my life. They weren't all that popular in L.A. until that album.

Coolness. I first heard them on the 'Pump Up the Volume' soundtrack, doing a cover of Leonard Cohen's 'Everybody Knows', which was pure genius... I don't really remember when that was, but it's still a great soundtrack.

Nine Inch Nails: Heresy
Marilyn Manson: The Reflecting God
John Lennon: Imagine

D...

[zakt]

Roy Harper: Same Old Rock
Siouxsie & the Banshees: The Lord's Prayer
Dick Gaughan: Stand Up, Stand Up for Judas ("and the cause that Judas served, it was Jesus who betrayed the poor with his words")

[DeepFixer]

How 'bout three from Our Man Lemmy:

Bad Religion:"Evangelistic nazis, you cannot frighten me!"

(Don't Need) Religion:"If your head's all right, you don't need binoculars to see the light"

Orgasmatron: "My Name is called Religion:sadistic, sacred whore"

[zakt]

And him a good son of the Manse too! 8O

[Bill]

I was going to mention the Concrete Blonde songs. Darn.

Iron Maiden: "Hallowed Be Thy Name" ("If there's a God, why has he let me die?")

Genesis: "Jesus He Knows Me"

AC/DC: "Highway To Hell"; "Hells Bells"
(Many of their titles - Rock n Roll Damnation, Hell Ain't a Bad Place To Be - sound worse than they are; they are almost all about women)

Black Sabbath: "N.I.B."

[Omaru]

How could I forget Genesis? Good call, Bill.

[Omaru]

Mr. Bungle - Merry Go Bye-bye

They're shining searchlights in the sky
'Cause there's a new God in the sign
It says their map is not their terrier work
And then I broke my telescope
But that's the nature of the game
And you have to play

Bring back the pain of a god that's never blue
You're in control of the whole damned universe
Bring back the shame and the bright lights on a few
It keeps me coming back to you

The deaths were faked, the laughs were cries
But ressurrections are doing fine
You got me walking into suicide
And I'll be there right by your side
In reproduction at your merry go bye bye

Here to paradise they go
Brighter made is their woe
As above, so below

We reached for an outside point of view
But its out of touch with me and you
I feel I'm walking into suicide
But you'll be right there by my side
To beam my message into space as I die

Bring back the shame of the many for the few
Get on your knees and I'll be coming back to you
Bring back the pain of an inverse world for two
It keeps me coming back to you

[Omaru]

Try this one:
Faith no More (they should have one on this for the band name alone)
STAR A.D


Star A.D.
See tomorrow dreamin'
You don't need your freedom
Star A.D.
A little joke that's understood
All over the world
A little joke that's understood
It's all over and over and over and over
And dying is dry-
Like a fact of history
And when you die, you'll become
something worse
Than dead-
You'll become
A legend
We are forever