{"id":1214,"date":"2008-05-02T23:36:55","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T03:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2008-05-02T23:36:55","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T03:36:55","slug":"theres-not-a-lot-of-pop-music-with-this-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/02\/theres-not-a-lot-of-pop-music-with-this-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s not a lot of pop music with this inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/d1mtxibzN4Q&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the video for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_Party\">World Party<\/a> song <strong>Is It Like Today<\/strong>?.<\/p>\n<p>The reason it&#8217;s here: it&#8217;s explicitly inspired by, and intended to be a precis of, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bertrand_Russell\">Bertrand Russell<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Western_Philosophy_%28Russell%29\">History of Western Philosophy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lyrics after the jump:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Is It Like Today? &#8211; World Party<\/strong><br \/>\nMany years ago he<br \/>\nLooked out through a glassless window<br \/>\nAll that he could see was Babylon<br \/>\nBeautiful green fields and dreams<br \/>\nAnd learn to measure the stars<br \/>\nBut there was a worry in his heart<\/p>\n<p>He said,<br \/>\nHow could it come to this?<br \/>\nI&#8217;m really worried about living<br \/>\nHow could it come to this?<br \/>\nYeah, I really want to know about this<br \/>\nIs it like today?<\/p>\n<p>Then there came a day<br \/>\nIt moved out across the Mediterranean<br \/>\nCame to western isles and the Greek young men<br \/>\nAnd with their silver beards they laughed<br \/>\nAt the unknown of the universe<br \/>\nThey could sit and guess God&#8217;s name<\/p>\n<p>But they said,<br \/>\nHow could it come to this?<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re really worried about living<br \/>\nHow could it come to this<br \/>\nYeah, we really want to know about this<br \/>\nIs it like today?<\/p>\n<p>Then there followed days of Kings, Empires and revolution<br \/>\nBlood just looks the same when you open the veins<br \/>\nBut sometimes it was faith, power or reason as the cornerstone<br \/>\nBut the furrowed brow has never left his face<\/p>\n<p>He said,<br \/>\nHow could it come to this?<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve living in a landslide<br \/>\nHow could it come to this?<br \/>\nYeah, we really want to know about this<br \/>\nIs it like today?<\/p>\n<p>Then there came a day<br \/>\nMan packed up flew off from the planet<br \/>\nHe went to the moon, to the moon<br \/>\nNow he&#8217;s out in space<br \/>\nHey, fixing all the problems<br \/>\nHe comes face to face with God<\/p>\n<p>He says,<br \/>\nHow could it come to this?<br \/>\nI&#8217;m really worried about my creation<br \/>\nHow did it comes to this?<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re really killing me, you know<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t just today<br \/>\nIs it like today?<br \/>\nIs it like today?<br \/>\nBang!<\/p>\n<p>Many years ago he<br \/>\nLooked out through a glassless window<br \/>\nDidn&#8217;t understand which what he saw<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">That&#8217;s the video for the World Party song Is It Like Today?. The reason it&#8217;s here: it&#8217;s explicitly inspired by, and intended to be a precis of, Bertrand Russell&#8216;s History of Western Philosophy. Lyrics after the jump: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/02\/theres-not-a-lot-of-pop-music-with-this-inspiration\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[84,459,238,250],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me-bertie","category-music","tag-embed","tag-music","tag-philosophy","tag-russell","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-jA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}