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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Re: Read into the FoW |
| Date | Thu, 17 Jul 2003 03:55:16 -0500 |
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> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:08:32 EDT
> From: DanAbnrml9@aol.com
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Read into the FOW
> Message-ID: <a9.4485a86f.2c475110@aol.com>
>
> Regarding the meaning of "All Kinds of Time", that's the one that's really
>
> baffled me. I actually asked Chris about it when I did my interview with
> him for
> the most recent Amplifier (which most of us/you got in the mail yesterday)
>
> and he admitted he didn't even know--he said it was one of Adam's songs
> and
> while he thought it had a really pretty melody, he had no idea what Adam
> was
> getting at. I actually see both AKOT and "Peace and Love" as moderate
> apologies to
> groups that FOW have traditionally poked fun at. They basically take the
> stereotypes we're used to--the high school jock who has unrealistically
> pinned his
> hopes on a career in sports and goofball hippies--and just present them as
>
> they are, sans the judgments we were used to on "Utopia Parkway". That
> means we
> can still laugh at them, we can still say (as someone else mentioned) that
> the
> guy in "All Kinds of Time" was destined to become the guy in "Bright
> Future in
> Sales", but by the flip of the coin we can recognize that, to that
> character--and the real life people he represents--that moment truly is
> important, even
> if it seems silly to some of us.
>
Hmmm. I get the impression that you and Sherman both think that the
quarterback/protagonist of "All Kinds Of Time" is a high school athlete
(although I could be misreading your allusion to FoW's use of the
high-school-jock stereotype, and Sherman just said "school" without being
specific as to what type of school he meant). But the quarterback's father
and brothers are watching the game on TV, if I remember correctly (I don't
have the CD here with me now), which is why I thought that the song was
about a young NFL quarterback getting his first big break in a
regular-season game. But the TV thing also means that he could be a Division
One college quarterback, I suppose.
Gregory Sager
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