“Be nice to my army.” — the Ramones
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I Feel Like Hank Williams Tonight - Jerry Jeff Walker
This pretty much happened to me. There are high points to life, and low. We surf along, up and down.
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GO Go Go ~ The Wax Bananas
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Swan Swan H ~ REM
Life’s Rich Pageant
is, I think, my favorite REM album, along with Document, Out of Time, Green, Murmur, Monster, Reconstruction of the Fables, Chronic, Dead Letter Office, and Reckoning.
It’s like with women. Redheads are my favorite, along with blondes and brunettes.
I am a man, apparently, who’s easy to please. You must either be a woman or an REM song.
The whiskey is water, the water is whine.
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The Aircrash Bureau ~ Gary Numan
Goodnight…
Nirvana ~ Do Re Mi (1994)
Heroin
I decided quite a while ago that I get to determine what art means. It annoys me when other people tell me what it means, especially the artist.
I play ‘Gimme Shelter’ by the Stones and some nearby know-it-all goes “This song is about heroin.”
Whatever.
All great rock songs are about heroin, it seems. Nirvana? Heroin. Elliot Smith? Heroin. The Stones? Heroin.
I reiterate: whatever.
I say Elton John’s ‘Rocket Man’ is an allegory about divorce and resulting alienation. The nearby know-it-all is troubled by this. “No,” he says. “It’s a rock song. Therefore, it’s about heroin.”
“‘Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids,’” I point out. “How is that not divorce and alienation?”
“But it’s a rock song….”
“So it’s about heroin, right?”
“Yes! Thank you.”
“Whatever.”
If you create a piece of art and put it out there, it ceases to be entirely yours. To me, ‘Rocket Man’ is about divorce. Screw what Elton or the nearby know-it-all says.
My song. My meaning.
‘Something In The Way’ by Nirvana is about shelter, about living underneath a bridge. The ‘something in the way’ is the bridge itself. That’s all shelter really is: something in the way of the elements.
‘Heroin’, though, by the Velvet Underground, IS about heroin. Derp.
“Your mileage may vary” is an excellent phrase and should be applied to all art. If you tell me what something means, the only possible way for you to be right is if I agree with you.
Fade, fade away….
They say the Pixies were the progenitors of the loud/quiet/loud sound, but they’re wrong. It was Beethoven, in his symphonies especially. I listen to classical music all the time now (being really old and in possession of good taste) and the range of Beethoven knows no bounds. In the 2nd movement of the 7th, for example, one minute he’s as quiet and delicate as a gentle spring rain, the next he’s beating you over the head with a bat. Simon and Garfunkel one moment, Metallica the next, all in the same song. The Pixies ripped off Ludwig Van, baby ;)
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LOUNGE ACT ` Nirvana.
Fucking A.
"Motorhead is the kind of band where, if they moved next door, your lawn would die."
— Dave Grohl
I bet there’s rich folks eatin’ in a fancy dining car. They’re probably drinkin’ coffee and smokin’ big cigars. Well, I know I had it comin’, I know I can’t be free. But those people keep a-movin’ and that’s what tortures me.
The Beatles are overrated. Finally somebody said it.
Three bands better than the Beatles:
the Kinks,
the Animals,
the Rolling Stones,
there are others, I’m sure.
Love, love me do.
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Jerry Jeff Walker ~ I Feel Like Hank Williams Tonight
One of my favorite songs, and when you’re drunk, you have to post your favorite songs on the internet. It’s the rules.
