I had to stop reading a digitalmetal.com review...

[FalseTodd]

Cause it contained the following line:

These guys are pissed off, and unlike countless thousands of other artists who go after cliched, strawman targets (George Bush, etc.), they attack more universal human failings, with greed being a central theme.

Um, huh? Yeah, avoid those easy targets like current politicians who are fucking up the world, and go after the tough targets that noone ever thinks of, like, um, greed. Hey let's stick it to those hypocritical televangelists next! They *never* get theirs!

 

[xfer]

i think Bush is fucking up America like 1000x more than he's fucking up the world.

 

[azal]

falsetodd's avatar is quiet decieving at times.

 

[avi]

yeah, that like is pretty retarded, but Halo is pretty good methinks

 

[Demonspell]

What review was this excerpt from? While I am fervently against the Bush administration, I prefer my socially aware lyrics to focus on the universal rather than the specific...

 

[FalseTodd]

The band was Halo, not sure of the album...
Going for the universality is fine, but lauding a band for avoiding soft targets like current politicians and their wrongs, and shooting for the hard ones like well-acknowledged human failings such as greed is ...bleargle.

 

[Static]

I prefer non-topical lyrics like nature, greed, destruction meh whatever...

But that review excerpt is still bleurgh.