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There is a rumor that the lyrics/title was originally "Everything's F**ked, and they called it Eminence Front to get it approved, and get radio airplay. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.109.200.3 (talk) 2008-10-30T15:29:07

That would definitely need reliable sources cited, instead of a rumor, if it was put in the article. --Closeapple (talk) 23:51, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Supposed 1980s critique

"The song itself focuses on the hedonistic lifestyle that was prevalent during the 1980s".

I love these song essays that are so clearly written by people much younger than the actual song. "Eminence Front" came out in 1982, when the UK was just over the early Thatcher recession and the US was deep in one. The '80s had barely gotten going then, and people were hardly living the hedonistic, boom-times lifestyle suggested by the lyrics, the one they would later on in that decade.

Aside from which, that should be cited. Daniel Case (talk) 16:55, 12 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Law Abiding Citizen

It was played during the scene in which gerard butler is eating a steak and all the trimmings in his cell, with his cellmate.

75.176.114.204 (talk) 04:13, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I was 13 in 1982, and my impression is that the song essay is fairly accurate. Sure, the masses of people were not feeling the prosperity associated with the conspicuous consumption of (in the USA) the 1980's but, that didn't stop people from wanting to play the roll of someone with means. Wealth, and exclusivity was what very few had, and the masses aspired to, some going into debt in the process. A lot of troubled folk were trying to mask real pain, and insecurities with the "right" job, clothes, home, car etc. In 1978, Chris Matthews wrote a speech for President Jimmy Carter. In this speech Carter talked about the need for American citizens to heal real problems spiritually, and not with material possessions. (Elbert Phillips (talk) 20:27, 15 January 2010 (UTC))[reply]

Stereo Image

The vocal in Eminence Front is panned hard right, not hard left. I think the original writer/listener had their speakers the wrong way around. They won't have got a true stereo image either, if their speakers are portaying the stereo image in the wrong direction. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Compost (talk • contribs) 23:47, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]