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The Cover Vs.Lunatic Fringe (It's Official: Part 2) Not just the lyrics to an iconic early 80's alt-rock song. Aerosmith – ‘Toys in the Attic’ (1975 ) – Album Review (The Aerosmith Collection Series).My Sunday Song – “Ballad of Trayvon Martin” by Will Hoge.Ace Frehley – American Tour 2021 (Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre, October 7, 2021) – Concert Review.Alice Cooper – 2021 Fall Tour (Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheater, October 7, 2021) – Concert Review.Van Halen – “Why Can’t This Be Love” – 45 Single.Cheap Trick – ‘Cheap Trick at Budokan’ (1978) – Album Review (The Cheap Trick Collection Series).Rob Zombie – ‘The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy’ – Album Review.Happy I am cranking this now!! Wide Awake (In My Dreamland) Follow me on Twitter My Tweets Recent Posts It is one of the coolest sounding songs I have heard and have never tired of hearing it. If you have never heard the song, then I hope you enjoy it. The term was popularized by Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote in 1913 that, “Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.”” which is why he named the song as he did. And per Wikipedia, “lunatic fringe” is a “term used to characterize members of a political or social movement as extremists with eccentric or fanatical views. The song worked form beginning to end.Īccording to Mike Bell of the Canadian Online Explorer, “Lunatic Fringe” was inspired by “what Cochrane saw as an alarming rise of anti-Semitism in the ’70s, and was also partially inspired by a book he read on Raoul Wallenberg, who helped thousands of Jews escape Nazi Germany”. The song ends with city street sounds including sirens and then ends with the guitar riff from the beginning. And from there, the song kicks into full band mode and Tom Cochrane’s vocals. From the keyboard sounds, you then get a quick couple guitar notes that add a punch to it. The song really starts out with a creepy keyboard sound, almost evil feel to it. I like dark and creepy songs for some reason. The creepiness of the song was what drove me to liking it. MTV surely played it a lot as that was the only place I ever heard it at the time. Actually, they never had a song chart in the Top 40 so I guess you could categorize them as a No-Hit Wonder, at least here in the States.īut for me the song was a hit. The song charted as high as #11 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart, but never cracked the Top 40 of the Bill board Hot 100. The song is off their 1981 album ‘As Far as Siam” and is probably the band’s most famous song. For My Sunday Song #65, I chose “Lunatic Fringe” by Canadian rock band Red Rider.

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