The Horrible Fanfare/Landslide/Exoskeleton

Beck - The Horrible Fanfare/Landslide/Exoskeleton

ashes of ancients
the nations repainted
the chain gang chatelaine
changing the station
the theme song playing
the anthem of normal
the horrible fanfare
the horns get distorted
on a public announcement
the towns are impounded
where order resounded
cowards towered around it
power line buzzards
surveilling the night
talons in flight
the fake horizons ignite

banality lives where hysteria kills
civilian jungles with malaria pills
animals bleed to buy a star from the night
avenue kids wear a scar like a stripe
send up a signal to the heavenly rescue
when the poison's coming from the person you're next to
let the voltage of thought pull the plug from the wound
cos if the soul is a symptom the condition is you

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we know its a letterbomb hand me down
this thought is a perjury blindfold
when she crawls from the himalayan highway rain
with her birds of prey and her weapons on the fire




she’s riding a land slide down to me
she’s cutting the shackles off of me
she’s shaking the dead birds from the trees
she’s takin the only air I breathe

iron lungs and a plate glass sermon
don’t call it death on the installment plan

she pulling the armor from my back
and raking the coals over the tracks
and taking the knife out from the stack
she’s bringing the blood that I had back

she’s coming to see its all a sin
coming to see the sun again
coming to wash it off again
coming to see her self again

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[Johnnymay86]

I got a very distinct impression that this came off as a recruitment song for Scientology, especially by the end.

.... Sorry Beck, love ya, but once you start putting your crazy cult in my music, I can't do it anymore.

[multivitamins4all]

@Johnnymay86 I wouldn't be so sure about that. Beck isn't even into Scientology. He's claimed it was just something he was born into. On top of that, the end conversation was completely made up by Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze. Beck told them to describe the "perfect record" and that's how the words to Exoskeleton came about.

[Flash9Flood]

Definetly one of Beck's longest and weirdest songs.Yet somehow I like it :-)

Once you go Beck,you never go back

[Naturality]

I love the conversation between Dave Egger and Spike Jonze, but I wish Beck published the rest of their 'commentary'.

Beck's my favourite artist, absolutely brilliant as demonstrated here.

[loljustice31]

@Tripo1iSamson yeah I went through this period of feeling that way many years ago when I first found out, but after a while I just learned to accept it.

[loljustice31]

@multivitamins4all I'm sorry to tell you, but beck is in fact quite into scientology. He'd lived with it all his life. His parents were both into it hardcore, his mother delivered his wife Marissa as a baby, and they were all into scientology too... he went to a scientologist elementary school and his entire band is into scientology. It's not even a matter of doubt, much as his fans would wish it weren't true.

[KWtones]

@multivitamins4all @johnnymay86 Amazing what people can start to think when they look into things deeply ;)

[GodendtheDevil]

Alot of the same stuff from "The Information" is stuffed into one song... The Information is still my favorite Beck record!

[Tripo1iSamson]

@Johnnymay86 it's weird isn't it, if this guy was referencing Mormonism or something crazy, nobody'd have a problem saying "that's fucking dumb," but if Beck was "kinda somewhat happenstance" just born into the cult of "scientology," it's a-okay to many people. Goddammit.

[Tripo1iSamson]

godfuckingdammit, figures an artist I like would be a fucking scientologist. Fuck that cult. And goddamn was Battlefield Earth terrible.

[StephanieKristin1490]

I want to make love to this song

[electronicflyguy]

I need to see Beck perform live, that would complete my life.

[tr0llzorz]

god dammit i fucking love this song

[BiffGood]

Kick Ass. Still loving this, seen Beck in the UK and he is ACE.