Do electric sheep dream of an electric heaven? I have no idea what I'm talking about. Here's "Sheep Go To Heaven" by Cake and it's a good four minutes long. It can be found here, yo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1WdRfI9yZs
Ah, South Park animation. I guess we're going to have ourselves a time. Anyway the video is about the characters going to some party and some go to heaven and some go to hell. I've already forgotten the lyrics.
Oh, and Cake is dressed up as Kiss, for some reason. Although they call themselves Kickz. Take that, copyright!
Anyway, after a second go through, it starts off with some kid thinking of an idea for a card. I can relate, because I always took forever to think up creative crap. The kid starts writing the lyrics on the card, which is helpful for a dope like me. Anyway, the kid apparently is feeling down today.
The refrain starts and the singer talks about a gravedigger, a stonemason, a barber, and a carpenter. We never find out what happens when they all go into a bar. Rip off! I'm sure the carpenter is a reference to Jesus, although I'm not sure why other then the references to sheep going to heaven.
The singer, who apparently speaks for the kid, just wants to play some panpipes (demon!) and drink some wine. The video has a full party break out in some bar where Kickz plays. There's cheerleaders and nurses but no lingerie models. There's goth babes, and I hope those are part of the goats that go to hell. The guys include football players, romans in togas, centurions, and vikings. Everybody rocks out except for the kid who's a bartender.
The second verse repeatedly talks about how the singer doesn't want to go to Sunset Strip because it's all cold and empty. Either the band is talking about the suckiness of the place or they're making some commentary about the music industry that I wouldn't understand or care about in a hundred years.
Oops, the bartender is different from the kid at the beginning. Sorry about that.
Anyway, kid walks away from the party and sits in front of a tv next to his poodle. He turns on the tv and sees what a huge success the party is. Unfortunately, he sees the goth babes, which drives him to kill. He picks up a scimitar (where the heck did he get that?) and goes to the club and kills everybody. Cops soon arrest him. Meanwhile the poodle eats rat poison and dies.
Everybody floats towards heaven, and have fun doing so. The trial doesn't go well for the kid when the jury and judge sing the "goats go to hell" part of the refrain. Kid fries.
The slain partiers now do jumping jacks in heaven. There's some guy in a speedo there (the bartender?). Kid goes to hell. It doesn't look pleasant, but it's not too scary. I expect more then a wheel and a conveyor belt. By the way, is the kid suppose to be Davey, and the poodle suppose to be his Goliath?
The song seems to be arguing about having fun. The kid is miserable and lonely and decides to kill the party goers for no apparent reason. The video argues that he should have rocked on with these people but now he's in hell.
The awesome thing about this video is the part where the gothy girls get killed. The reason why Lita likes it is because it has a lot of clones and it has a poodle (although that's negated the way it died.
2 comments:
Wow! Tork's in a grouchy and judgmental mood! You know who else likes it when people go to Hell? Bob Williams.
The awesome thing about today's video was that it's an awesome video for an awesome song by an awesome band. There wasn't a specific thing, which is why I didn't ask you to identify one.
The kid writes for a greeting card company. That's why he was writing in the cards at the beginning. I think a job like that could put anybody on edge.
It's possible that the carpenter in the song was a Jesus reference. CAKE do make those from time to time.
I don't know that the singer, John McCrea speaks for the kid. While I don't get the impression that he's a joy to work with, he doesn't seem like the type to shoot up a night club. Also he's shown as one of the victims. Are you saying he's in two places at once, Tork? That's madness.
wurwolf can tell you more about the CAKE/Satan connection.
Your new video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mfQn3pYwKM
One of the last great songs he did before everybody found out what a nutjob he is. Yes, it goes a little weird after the halfway mark. I see it as a metaphor for this person's career.
They gave me the most complicated word verification ever this time. xngkgcme
Jeez, Torrk Williams, lighten up. You're becoming really hostile. I just don't get you sometimes.
As Lita alluded to, there is a definite connection between CAKE and Satan. This may or may not explain why John McCrea is such a pain in the ass to work for. This live journal entry discusses the very real evidence that CAKE is the devil, and the author even uses "Sheep Go to Heaven" as an example. Since I know you probably won't click the link and read it through, I'll copy and paste what he has to say about "Sheep Go to Heaven":
"...the grave digger puts on the forceps,
The stonemason does all the work,
The barber can give you a haircut,
The carpenter can take you out to lunch.
But I just want to play on my pan-pipes.
I just want to drink me some wine.
As soon as you're born you start dying,
so you might as well have a good time.
Sheep go to Heaven,
Goats go to Hell..."
This song wasn't included at first because I didn't feel it provided enough evidence. This song is more in the nature of propaganda than a direct indication of the Devil's thoughts. The first four lines quoted above are all related to death. When you die, the grave digger digs your grave, the stonemason makes your tombstone, the barber makes you presentable in your casket, and "the carpenter," or Jesus, takes your soul. But the Devil feels that since this all happens eventually anyway you might as well eat, drink, and be merry. Artistic depictions of the Devil have often given him goat horns and hooves. The pan-pipes are another link, since Dionysian tendencies are hedonistic in nature and Christianity often views pleasure-seeking to be immoral. Sheep follow a shepherd, which Jesus is often styled as; "The Lord is my shepherd..." Goats are a different sort of animal, more stubborn and generally doing what pleases them.
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