xtc's dear god may possibly be the most well written, controversial and effective pop song ever released on the subject of - god being addressed directly by humans, who happen not to believe in god. god shuffled his feet, the title track from the 2nd album by canada's crash test dummies comes in at a close 2nd place. the satire continues into the video treatments for these songs.
in dear god, xtc's primary singer-songwriter addresses the camera as if he is speaking to god, while ordinary townfolk gather in a tree in a nod to either the garden, primate/evolution theory - or both. the video for god shuffled his feet is quite overt, being set in a small theatre where god turns out to be a wooden puppet controlled by a frail old man.
in an odd happenstance of mutual intellectual affinity, crash test dummies covered another satirical song by xtc called the ballad of peter pumpkinhead, ironically, for the dumb and dumber motion picture soundtrack. ...peter pumpkinhead employs a unique spin on the subject of would-be-deities, in that 'peter pumpkinhead' is killed for being "too good" by being nailed to "a chunk of wood" - as a sort of easy-going modern day messiah.
in dear god, xtc's primary singer-songwriter addresses the camera as if he is speaking to god, while ordinary townfolk gather in a tree in a nod to either the garden, primate/evolution theory - or both. the video for god shuffled his feet is quite overt, being set in a small theatre where god turns out to be a wooden puppet controlled by a frail old man.
in an odd happenstance of mutual intellectual affinity, crash test dummies covered another satirical song by xtc called the ballad of peter pumpkinhead, ironically, for the dumb and dumber motion picture soundtrack. ...peter pumpkinhead employs a unique spin on the subject of would-be-deities, in that 'peter pumpkinhead' is killed for being "too good" by being nailed to "a chunk of wood" - as a sort of easy-going modern day messiah.