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Rating: "Tonight The Stars Revolt!" is definitely the commercial peak for Rob Zombie's little brother, Spider One, and his Powerman 5000 (PM5K to friends).
Released two years after their quiet debut on a major label (Spielberg's Dreamworks), "Mega!!Kung Fu Radio", the album will achieve brief fame thanks to the catchy singles "Nobody's Real" and "When Worlds Collide", reaching the coveted million copies sold for the platinum record.
At the end of the millennium, however, it was relatively easy to reach these numbers for records rooted in the nu-metal genre of Korn and company. While the sparse electronic contaminations and hinted punk tendencies aren't enough to steer the work away from the calm shores of the aforementioned genre.
Many tracks are easy to listen to thanks to their aggressive cut, especially in the second half, where "Blast Off To Nowhere" stands out, sung alongside older brother Rob.
Even though the best shots are fired right away with the initial trio, highlighted by the amusing "Supernova Goes Pop", evident from its title.
The medietas is interrupted only towards the end with "Good Times Roll", an already catchy Cars cover, here coarsely exploited (read pop-trash) to its fullest.
Aesthetically (which ultimately also impacts the music), the album develops all that retro iconography so dear to similar (and better) White Zombie.
In this case, we dive into the 50's sci-fi with a sprinkle of cyberpunk, a celebration of synthesizers, distortions, spacesuits, spacecrafts, codes, and robots.
There is also an attempt, only partially successful, to create a sort of narrative thread throughout the musical storytelling.
The work presents itself as the first issue of a mythical magazine dated in the fall of 1947, and, with a bit of imagination, it's possible to follow the tenuous story of a rebellion underway in a future world.
In short, a small, sometimes amusing, journey into the imaginary world of a harmless group but with enough skills to keep you entertained.
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 An Eye Is Upon You (00:51)
Spinning complacently in the darkness,
covered and blinded by a blanket of little lives,
false security has lulled the madness
of this world into a deep slumber.
Wake up!
An eye is upon you, staring straight down and keenly through,
seeing all that you are and everything you can never be.
Yes, an eye is upon you an eye ready to blink.
So face forward, with arms wide open, and mind reeling.
Your future has arrived... are you ready to go?
02 Blast Off To Nowhere (03:45)
Blast off, blast off to nowhere.... blast off.... this is time to go
blast off, blast off to nowhere... blast off... are you really what you think so
Please just kill me now or get me off this rock
Cause I can't stand to hear your faces and I can't stand to hear you talk
Prepared for anything cause this time is for real
Burn the souls of those left behind and I don't care how you feel
Cause It's time... to blast off
03 They Know Who You Are (02:33)
Gone for a moment that you'll never know
All of theese things that you can't control
They know who you are!!
They know who you are!!
They know who you are!!
They know who you are!!
Gone for a moment that you'll never know
All of theese things that you can't control
The lights from above they move in real slow
Giving you things that you'll never know
They know who you are!!
They know who you are!!
They know who you are!!
They know who you are!!
One for machines that fill up the sky
And one for the demon that lights up your eye
They know who you are!!
04 Good Times Roll (03:59)
Let the good times roll
Let them knock you around
Let the good times roll
Let them make you a clown
Let them leave you up in the air
Let them brush your rock and roll hair
Let the good times roll
Let the good times roll
Let the good times roll
Let the stories be cold
They can say what they want
Let the photos be old
Let them show what they want (what they want)
Let them leave you up in the air
Let them brush your rock and roll hair
Let the good times roll
Let the good times roll
Let the good times roll
Let the good times roll
If the illusion is real
Let them give you a ride
If they got thunder appeal
Let them be on your side (on your side)
Let them leave you up in the air
Let them brush your rock and roll hair
Let the good times roll
Let the good times roll
Let the good times roll
Let the good times roll (let the good times roll)
Let the good times roll (let the good times roll)
Let the good times roll
Let the good times roll (let the good times roll)
Let the good times roll (let the good times roll)
Let the good times roll (let the good times roll)
Let the good times roll
05 Watch The Sky For Me (05:19)
Watch the sky for me,
Watch the night.
I'll be there for you,
In starlight.
As your feet touch the ground,
I'll be floating along
Watch the sky for me...
tonight
Just as every moment leads you to the past,
Just as everything has gone,
I'm the one you need to know that there is someone else,
Just as this is now goodbye...
Watch the sky for me,
Watch the night.
Cuz I'll be there for you,
In starlight.
As your feet they touch the ground,
I'll be floating along
Watch the sky for me...
tonight.
goodnight
(Lyrics for Extra Track)
I am not at home here.
The world of the dead, is a lonely place for the living.
I'm not at home here......
......The world....of the dead.....is a lonely..place....for the living....
The world of the dead, is a lonely place for the living.
07 When Worlds Collide (02:57)
[Now this is what it's like when worlds collide
Now this is what it's like
Now this is what it's like when worlds collide
Now this is what it's like]
What is it really
That's going on here
You've got the system boards out of control
Now is there really anybody out there
Now watch us suffer cause we can't go
What is it really that is in your head
What little life that you had just died
I'm gonna be the one that's taking over
Now this is what it's like when worlds collide
Are you ready to go
Cause I'm ready to go
What you wanna do baby, baby
Are you going with me
Cause I'm going with you
It's the end of all time
What is it really that motivates you
The need to fly or this fear to stall
I'll go along when you realize*
When we get there I say 9 of 10 drop
Now who is a god and who is the devil
You can't decide so I'll be your guide
And one by one they will be hand chosen
Now this is what it's like when worlds collide
Are you ready to go
Cause I'm ready to go
What you wanna do baby, baby
Are you going with me
Cause I'm going with you
It's the end of all time
[You are a robot]
[Now this is what it's like when worlds collide
Now this is what it's like
Now this is what it's like when worlds collide
Now this is what it's like]
What is it really when they're falling over
Everything that you thought was denied
I'm gonna be the one that's taking over
Now this is what it's like when worlds collide
Are you ready to go
Cause I'm ready to go
What you wanna do baby, baby
Are you going with me
Cause I'm going with you
It's the end of all time
Are you ready to go
Cause I'm ready to go
What you wanna do baby, baby
Are you going with me
Cause I'm going with you
It's the end of all time
Are you ready
Cause I'm ready
It's the end of all time
Are you going
Yeah I'm going
It's the end of all time
08 Nobody's Real (02:54)
(Alright) [x2]
Scary monsters
And super beasts
The more you dream the less you sleep, ah
Life as we know it
Has gone away
Unbound
Unwound
Who's here to stay, alright
Nobody's real but they're willing to let you know
Nobody's real but they'll feel it tonight
(Feel it tonight)
Nobody's real but they're willing to let you go
Nobody's real but they'll feel it
Nobody's real
Could you predict?
Could you forsee?
Artificial by necessity
Rockets and robots
Can save your life
When you don't care about what's real it's alright, alright
Nobody's real but they're willing to let you know
Nobody's real but they'll feel it tonight
(Feel it tonight)
Nobody's real but they're willing to let you go
Nobody's real but they'll feel it
(Alright) [x4]
How do you sleep with the time that's left you?
It's all been done there's no need for the rescue
So let's just get out
I swear there's no doubt
You can't be ready cause there's nothing left to do, OK
Nobody's real but they're willing to let you know
Nobody's real but they'll feel it tonight
(Feel it tonight)
Nobody's real but they're willing to let you go
Nobody's real but they'll feel it
(Feel it tonight)
Nobody's real but they're willing to let you know
Nobody's real but they'll feel it tonight
(Feel it tonight)
Nobody's real but they're willing to let you go
Nobody's real but they'll feel it
Nobody's real
Nobody's real
09 System 11:11 (00:47)
There's a sytem to the system
I don't fit in the sytem
Go, yeah go but don't expect me to miss ya
Tryin' to find a hole in the bottom of the souless
Thinkin' about the world form the edge you can't control this
Now what the fuck are you?
Some kind of half-assed astronaut?
Just a moment please I must insist that you stop
Just a moment please I must insist that you...
10 Tonight The Stars Revolt! (02:42)
Hang on to tomorrow
Because tonight the stars revolt!
Do you belive
and will you learn to scream
LIKE ME
There's nothing to it
When stars revolt
They're only doing what they're told
What's the mystery
The lights of death and fame
SHINE ON
Invaders from inside
Can easily replace
YOU NOW
Hang on tomorrow
Because tonight, the stars
Target Earth for me
Because tonight, the stars
Sing your favorite song
Because tonight, the stars
Show the way to die
because tonight, the stars revolt
11 Automatic (03:22)
The trip is on for a million miles, 93 to the sun
Take your place and you say goodbye,
Its automatic you're the one,
Its automatic, its automatic
Its automatic you're the one
Its automatic, its automatic
Your day alive has just begun
Whats in the air, who's in the mind
Where's the light in your eye,
Within the realm of the possible, it's no big surprise
Its automatic, its automatic
Its automatic you're the one
Its automatic, its automatic
Your day alive has just begun
Brilliant sheep lead to brilliant babies,
A thousand stars, a million maybes
Captivating the captivated,
And save the souls of those that you created
Its automatic, its automatic
Its automatic you're the one
Its automatic, its automatic
Your day alive has just begun
Its automatic, its automatic
Its automatic you're the one
Its automatic, its automatic
Your day alive has just begun
(Yelled)
Its automatic, its automatic
Its automatic you're the one
Its automatic, its automatic
Your day alive has just begun
12 The Son Of X-51 (02:58)
[robotvoice]
Is he a pushed by man, or a machine in search of a soul
This is a noiseheat to freedom
A jurney for a name
For one less to another burn(not quite sure)
The son of X fifty one
[robotvoice end]
Sitting with you eyes shut tightly,
Waiting for the time you must leave
Surrounded by people you'll never know,
Still you must go and transmit the sound
Of what you have found and leave everything that you knew behind
Let's go, I know the sound of X-51
And so, you'll know your time has only begun
Can it be what you want it to be, can it be everything
Can it be what you need it to be, begging you to believe...
Let's go,I know the son of X-51
And so, you'll know you time has only begun
Watching with your arms wide open, thinking everyone should just stop
Surrounded by people you'll never need, a plan to decieve
Is what we all need, and keep everything that you knew inside
13 Operate, Annihilate (03:48)
I wanna be everybody, I wish that I wasn't me
I was dropped from out of sight
I always land on my feet
I was bit by the bug, grew 47 feet tall
I wasn't who I thought I was
Wasn't anything at all
I wanna be everybody, I wish that I wasn't me
I'm the bones of the dead - Superhero-trustee
Now seven minutes have passed and everybody got blasted
Operate, annihilate and everything is alright
Chorus:
Opperate, annihilate
Operate, annihilate
What you got, you got too late
Cause everybody's gone
I wanna be everybody, I wish that I wasn't me
The point furthest from is from a point of view less likely
You were the king of the moon, now you just lie in the dirt
Where's the fist of fury now - Everybody gets hurt
I wanna be everybody, I wish that I wasn't me
The real truth is in the head of truth is insanity
Not seven minutes have passed and everybody got blasted
Operate, annihilate and everything is alright
Opperate, annihilate
Operate, annihilate
What you got, you got too late
Cause everybody's gone
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