Racked By Rope

Rocked, rocked, rocked by rape...

It wasn't perfect, but it was music
He had a voice that almost everyone in America recognized
Now, there's nothing in the world like making your own music. Let's all try it. When we listen to a record or tape, and with a razor blade, cut up and splice together the best passages. You can even start making things of your own. And I'll make it myself

Here are a few samples you're probably acquainted with:
Sex and drinking binges
Hooked on drugs
Rocked by rape
Let's tie all of these together, and it should sound something like this:
...Sex, drugs, and rocked by rape...

There! How'dja like that?
Horrible
It's faster! It's modern!
That'll make all this front page news go and go and go!

Now, let's listen to some different sounds all at one time. Let's open our ears real wide:
Warning, inflation, dead in their tracks, taxes, abortion, war, casualty
He lied, controversial deception and recrimination
Worldwide ban, tone-deaf people
Deadly alert, explosive fears, bomb, violence
Gunman killed a tourist, fighting anti-drug DEA
Cancer, drug abuse, violence, bombings, fatal shooting, truck bomb, killed wounded semi-automatic handgun, wild and wooly emergency
Fire damage, irritation, persecuted anti-fatal shooting rampage
Criminal murdered gridlock, government shutdown
Bitter collision warning alarms, collapses, desperation, despair, deep into debt, punishing murder, lying, fraudulent drug thugs, narcotics assassins fight battle, deaths, victims, damage, even death, starved
Mountains of credit card debt, deeper and deeper into debt, sexual harrassment, rape, criminal, fight, dead anti-criminal protests, a love triangle, prisons, the gangs rule
Nazi war criminals, the hidden Nazis next door, police brutality, notorious crime, murder, dying of a heart attack, dying of breast cancer
Bizarre brutal abuse, courts, murderer, killer
Disease, warriors damaging critical bombing, serious problems, bombing
Contaminated blood drops, dissidents' abuses, criminal
Criminal negative issues, extortion, murderer, chemical weapons, accidents, killing himself
Police conspiracy, kill, death, traumatic urban torture, drunk driving, hostage siege, police sirens, rude gestures, Marxist rebels, gunfire, war
Chemical weapons threat, terrorist, dangerous, die, killed, a freak accident, heartwrenching controversy, deaths, prison term, murders, garbage
Cancer, uproaring truck bomb killed frustrated FBI, mean streets, terrorists, hostages
Hungry homeless kids, orphans, urban jungle, magnetic radiation, failure, isn't he dead?
Drugs, sure killer, punitive damages, fraud, spoiled unsanitary hard-hitting losers
Murder, detention, police, hooked on drugs
Drugs, police state, the lawlessness and mayhem, castigation, reprimand
Low ethics overwhelming a liar and an unremorseful killer, a killer murdered, extortion and murder, the Unabomber, chemical terrorism, mysterious murder, ransom note, death penalty
Death penalty, inflation, exploded, shooting death, crime, gunned down, shooting, organized crime, crime, tragedy, pressure, controversial
Ground zero, and war, nuclear bomb, dangerous radiation, Cold War atomic bomb radiation experiments, hundreds of them
Military, unwitting test subjects, danger, US war plane went down in flames, US military plane crash
World War, plane crash, bombing Japanese military targets, American military bones, bomber, fatal crash, write that on butcher paper
Sex attack, FBI indictment, died, death, unemployment
Communist, economic collapse, anti government protesters, Communist bartering, security concerns, murder, caution, ransom notes
Police deaths, battling emergency disaster, no known survivors, crash, blinding
No way, horrible, 140 million people in all, fatalities
Forbidding the Oklahoma city bombing, notorious murder, outlawed, international smuggling pipeline
Punishment, the flaming debris, crash
Ethically damaged prison disaster, murdered driving drunk
Killed, cuts, struck and killed, controlled serious crime, victim, stress injuries, inflation, make it faster, better, cheaper
Victims, and how they died, CIA, the National Security Council
Murdering a man, death, stress, fatal heart attack, funeral victims
A mountain of cocaine, discrimination, racist, massive lawsuit
Threat, criminal risking starving hostage, militias, ethnic war
Sexual misconduct, rocked by rape, sexual assault
CIA narcotics operations, conspiracy, tons of cocaine, crack cocaine, Communist spy, crisis
Desperate, dangerous tragedy, Hell on Earth
Discipline, sex and drinking binges, chemical weapons, cancer death rate, chronic illness
Military fleeing for their lives, ethnic warfare, murder, tax
A tide of violence and human misery, murder, horrible, negative attacks
A plane crash set an entire neighborhood on fire
Health risk killing children, killed, died, killer, attack
Bench department, racism, murder, dead
Chemical weapons, CIA kill and injure children, disgruntled conspirator
Gulf War, chemical weapons, carpet bombing, chemical attack, fear, tough diplomatic warning, power struggle, arrest
Marijuana abuse, sweatshops, time for us to bug out

The other side of this record is what one group of musicians actually did. So turn the record over and we'll show you some more