Awesome song - perfect for the Mayan Apocalypse. Concrete Blonde is such an underrated band. One of my absolute favorites.

 Bobert_ParkCity wrote: 
It's so not a song about God.  It's originally Andy Prieboy's song that was meant to be indicating in a period of extreme homophobia that aids was not something restricted to the gay community.

 Johray63 wrote: 
It is a song about god...

This is such a tremendously powerful song, but unfortunately, this may be the absolutely worst version of it. I'd give the studio version from "Bloodletting" a 10...this a got a 4 from me.

 Sjaaks wrote: 
You can get allthe relevant info about this guy from Oolon Culluphid´s trilogy of philosophical blockbusters "Where God Went Wrong", "Some More of God's greatest Mistakes" and "Who is this God Person Anyway?".

Who or what is this God character you're all talking about?

 spindrift wrote: 
Ok, I'll play.  God created AIDS.  So where does that put us on the list of things important to God? 
 

 spindrift wrote: 
Amen...

Do any of you really think that God likes AIDS?  Or that He wants us to suffer?  Don't you understand that it's up to us to make the best of this world?

Ani, ani-one?

I told the priest, don't count on any second coming.
God got his ass kicked the first time he came down here slumming.
He had the balls to come, the gall to die and then forgive us.
No, I don't wonder why, I wonder what he thought it would get us.

Effing brilliant 

 OfficeUseOnly wrote: 
In 1998 I lost one of my best friends to AIDS and it makes me tear up just to think about him.  What a shame it is to lose so many beautiful people to such a horrible, wasting disease. 

I know my comment is going to provoke some narrow minded ass-jack to respond with dogmatic vitriol, but I stand by what I said. 

I've always loved this song, written by Andy Prieboy but performed by Johnette. . . agonizing and bittersweet. . .

Great song, but the live treatment does not do it justice.

A happy song about death. Cool.

Never heard the live version of this song. Thanks for another intro, RP!

"God got his ass kicked / the first time he came down here, slummin'"

Such a great couple of lines.

Concrete Blonde are one of my favorite bands from the eighties (besides the hardcore runk pock that I lived on back then). Their music and poetry feels as fresh today as it did then.

 Lupin_III wrote: 
It used to be that we would struggle to find the right words to express what we felt. Now we merely search for the right emoticon. Welcome to the virtual world of the 21st century.

1994-- golden in their effort for helping bring this world tragedy to the front.
Popular performers get such heat for using their roles to try to help society. I remember in 1985 (myself, not quite 15), meeting a new friend whom had contracted AIDS. Such loss never escapes me. Such is the pain our world has experienced.

When celebrity status is used to bring humanitarian struggles to our attention, let us help bring life to the foreground.

less are those who condemn us for our attempts at love.

This is one of my favorite Concrete Blonde songs. I only rated it a 6 because I do not care for this version.

Oh well, Life is not for everyone.

To quote The Comic Book Guy from "The Simpsons", there's no emoticon for what I am feeling. So we'll take this one for a spin.

I liked it too... and thought Concrete Blonde was doing it in a way to get people to pay attention.. hence when the refrain was sung, it was quiet so you'd have to ask...what'd she say?.. or at least that's what I got from it.

-T

Good song, but talk about a mood crasher. And I was having such a nice day.

Liked it, but it would have made a bigger impression, if had been more intimate and not as if was recorded in a cathedral

Check out their new album "Group Therapy" - some great stuff there!