Heaven Sent (Scorpion Wind album)
Heaven Sent is a collaboration between Boyd Rice, Douglas P. (of Death in June) and John Murphy (of The Associates), recording under the name Scorpion Wind, released in 1996 on NER. The album consists of Boyd Rice's spoken-word lyrics on subjects ranging from Social Darwinism to alcohol with backing music in various styles, including lounge and neofolk.
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| Released | 1996 |
| Label | NER |
Track listing
- "Love Love Love"
- (Equilibrium) About Social Darwinism and the need for the strong to rule the weak.)
- "Preserve Thy Loneliness"
- (About aestheticism and elitism.)
- "In Vino Veritas"
- (About drinking alcohol as civilization falls.)
- "Paradise Of Perfection"
- (About man's inability or unwillingness to confront "the downward trend of history".)
- "Roasted Cadaver"
- (A song from the perspective of an eternal being--Death? the sun?--sapping the life out of a dead man. A reflection on man's mortality and the eternal nature of the forces surrounding us.)
- "The Cruelty Of The Heavens"
- (A hymn to the deity Abraxas.)
- "There Is No More Sleep"
- (A fatalistic call to endure until the inevitable armageddon.)
- "Some Colossus"
- (A reflection on the endurance of man's greatest creations—the Colossus of Rhodes for instance as compared to the transient nature of man himself and the actions of inferior men.)
- "The Path Of The Cross"
- (Comparing the Iron Cross which Boyd Rice uses as a symbol for strength and war to the Christian wooden cross.)
- "Never"
- (Claims that a lie can never destroy truth or beauty, but instead degrades those who, by lying deserve to be degraded.)
- "Message..."
- (An answering machine message about a credit card bill.)
gollark: Oh, and it's all a giant maze of interlocking abstraction layers which manage to somehow erase decades of Moore's law because someone wanted to ship an entire browser for their desktop app or something, and which nobody actually understands.
gollark: Even the lowest level hardware stuff is vulnerable to weird exotic side channels, there's unauditable proprietary code running lots of stuff, and even outside of that people just cannot seem to write consistently secure code.
gollark: Actual implanted cybernetics are somewhat worrying because I don't really trust computers at this point, especially higher-performance ones.
gollark: All the cool people™ would run BrainLinux or something, and occasionally be blinded by incomprehensible driver problems.
gollark: You don't need *that*, just some method of projecting onto glasses in decent resolution without horrible focus problems, probably some way to blot out background too, and some kind of gesture control system (specialized gloves or radar maybe).
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