Death Valley '69

Kim Gordon & Thurston Moore have been kicking it hard for over 20 years and they can still put on a mean show. Talk about these New York gods here!

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Fopp
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Death Valley '69

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Does anybody now what the heck this song is about? From what i've heard in the lyrics, it sounds like the Manson Family (coming down fast, Sadie i love it, etc). Any ideas?
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That is exactly what it was about. They wrote it in response to the whole "Family Value" campaigns (PSAs) of mid-eighties America. So rather than the perfect moral family, they picked the Manson family as a form of parody.
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Lydia Lunch is awesome
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Manson, Sex, Drugs, Death Valley 69 is all about the song
Eat your water and drink your vegetables
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It's still a pretty cool song. And possibly one of the funniest parodys of all time.
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yeah its a good song.And i love the band above all
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