Word: songfulness
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Unlike the folksy protest songs of yesteryear, our generation’s music of subversion is the pop song. So kick back, relax, and enjoy while we do it to you in your eardrum?...
...about irony. Is it meta? Sure it is. Is it the only route left for cool? Probably. 6. “Louie Louie” by The Kingmen. A roommate of mine once related a story where the FBI spent years trying to determine if the lyrics to this song were obscene. It turns out that it’s just a love song, which is really sweet. I think that’s a really super model for activism in general. 7. “We Are Your Friends” by Justice vs. Simian. I listened to this...
...Highway 61 Revisited,” “Blonde on Blonde” and “Blood On The Tracks,” the acknowledged long-time Classics, along with 2001’s “Love and Theft,” the recent Classic. The songs (like those on “L&T”) are more artfully and cerebrally constructed now than they were back when song after song seemed to come cascading out of nowhere to take a place forever in the consciousness of those lucky to have been part of what Dylan...
Spirit On The Water Beautiful swing jazz love song with great piano and harmonica. Optimistic ending from the singer, who’s been around, but is still in the game: “You think I`m over the hill, you think I`m past my prime/ Let me see what you got, we can have a whoppin’ good time”–language clues you in to the putative time of this song...
When The Deal Goes Down A plaintive world-weary ballad, with the end close but the singer is ready for what comes. The beauty of the lyrics and of the song belie the inevitable, and evoke hope through the bond of a shared mortality and love shared : “In this earthly domain full of disappointment and pain/ You’ll never see me frown./ I give my heart to you, and that’s saying it true,/ And I’ll be with you when the deal goes down...