Premonitions & Conspiracy Theories in Music.

spoooooooooooky

Jaz is beautiful.

Ghayra majdin fi millati wa i'tiqadi
Nuhu bakin wa la tranimu shadi,

(Nothing but glory in my sect, or beliefs
[Neithe] wailing, crying, nor reciting my praises)

She reached another verse, and began:

Sahi. . . hadhihi quburna tumla]an al-rihab
Fa'ayna al-qubur min 'ahdi 'Ad?

(My friend, these are our graves which fill up the cemetery
So where is the grave from the era of 'Ad? [a pre-Islamic Arabian society])

Suddenly, the lyrics fell from her hand, and she slumped at the wheel. Her companions grabbed control of the car. Her face was sallow as she emerged from near-faint. She told her companions that she had the most unusual sensation--she had suddenly heard the distinctive music of a Druze funeral procession, just as it would have sounded in Suwayda, mixing with the sounds of the old mill the processions wended by. Al-Taba'i noted their locations: the incident took place in the same section of the road where her car would crash four years later [leading to her death]." The car crash itself was mysterious, the chauffeur managing to survive more or less uninjured, while Asmahan ended up drowning after the car plunge into water. In Asmahan's Secrets by Sherifa Zuhur, several theories about who might have had Asmahan killed are presented.

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Then there's the Monte Cazazza/Tana Emmolo-Smith track, "Prescient Dreams," in which they read a passage from Mary Cervenka's (Exene's sister) diary which seemed to predict her own death in a car crash.

Totally. Spooky.

I thought that was going to be the name of the album In Utero.

Does this count?

And to increase the spooky factor, you could make the case his own father predicted it when he wrote "Song to the Siren". (How's that for morbid projection?)

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or not.

I am working on something and would love to know of any songs, lines, references to any form of conspiracy theory, i.e. Kennedy, MLK, UFOs, 9/11, etc...I've got "Books About UFOs" although that's actually tangential. Diamond Dogs has some Burroughs-ian paranoia, of course there is the whole Paul is Dead/backwards masking stuff, but would love any and all references, however in passing. Thanks in advance...

If you listen to Magazine's "Real Life" and imagine it to be from the point of view of Lee Harvey Oswald, you have quite a JFK assassination paranoia epic. Sort of the CIA-Tommy.
― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, November 23, 2003 4:55 AM (6 years ago)

Oh my God! Tell me more, I just looked at the song list and am thinking you aren't kidding...sounds cool.

"11 mph" by Was (Not Was) is all about the JFK assassination

Also...

"Family Snapshot" by Peter Gabriel was inspired by George Wallace assassin Arthur Bremer's diary. Devo's "I Desire" has lyrics taken from John Hinckley, Jr. poems.

And hell, the MC5 figure into The Illuminatus Trilogy too.

Thanks, Elvis! Jam packed posts, will check them out

Check this out however." Hands me Vancouver phone directory. "Open it to the Government Departments listings." Sure as fuck, all the numbers start with...have a fuckin' guess.

Um....873?

Eric B & Rakim's Casualties of War, written about a muslim GI returning from the first Gulf War, is weirdly prophetic.

So I wait for terrorists to attack
Every time a truck backfires I fire back
I look for shelter when a plane is over me
Remember Pearl Harbor? New York could be over, G
Kamikaze, strapped with bombs