Krokus "Stayed Awake All Night"

The American people have spoken! The world will not be made smaller by computers but by grinding gears and great oil-burning engines. It’s not about security or secularisation, it’s about keeping the motorik running. The reason electronic pop music never became culturally dominant in the demonised heartland is that synth duos didn’t have large trucks loaded with equipment backing up to venues. The future was not designed by Kraftwerk but by Bachman-Turner Overdrive, although this 1983 BTO cover by a Swiss band incorporates “Metal on Metal”, except with volume-swell mirages evolving into a circular guitar pattern like the lights of the city coming into view after driving through the methamphetamine night. Night flight to Venus! The DEA claims that “methamphetamine is attractive to people in rural communities because labs can be set up in abandoned barns”, when the real reason is that you have to drive about three hours to get anywhere! Those eerie green night-vision Iraq broadcasts are a good approximation of how rural people actually see things, especially during the nocturnal segments of their 96-hour days. Having been in a rural area for seven months I think that the cultural divide is irreconciliable and that separation is not only inevitable but necessary! Not that I'd want to live here though, unless I owned a sixteen-wheeler. (I should also admit that the rural area I'm in is not actually in the USA, and that I first heard this on our crappy AM station where it was playable due to being a BTO song and thus satisfying CANCON regulations)