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| From | garymaher@juno.com |
| Subject | Re: God Rawks |
| Date | Fri, 9 Jan 2004 03:09:26 -0500 |
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On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 22:00:16 -0500 audities-owner@smoe.org writes:
> However, this little hobby of ours that's more like an obsession with
many
> of us often has it's roots in some fairly lowbrow human behavior. Rock
has
> always been about excess (and I'm speaking in broad strokes here, not
as a
> hard and fast rule), whether it be sex or drugs or alcohol. One night
> stands or one hour stands, glorified abuse of drugs and alcohol is
common to
> the genre.
As with most blanket statements, this one is hard to back up. I don't
even agree that it describes rock in "broad strokes". If you pulled out
a bunch of late sixties records, sure you'd get a lot of drug references.
But I'm pretty sure that if you look at the full spectrum, songs that
celebrate the above excesses are in the minority (at least as far as rock
in general and power pop are concerned).
I don't think any (at least not many) of my favorite
roll-down-the-windows-and-sing-along power pop songs are about any of
those topics. Most of them are about love (NOT necessarily sex, and NOT
"excess" sex, whatever that is). Some are about beauty. Some are about
sleeping in. And some are even about cars and waves.
Hey, don't get me wrong -- I do enjoy some songs about excess, like:
Hold Her Down by Toad the Wet Sprocket (anti-rape)
The Needle and The Damage Done by Neil Young (anti-drug)
I Won't Ever Go Drinking Again by Squeeze (anti-alcohol)
Oh, and I love The Mentors too, but that's a gag act. (Not gag as in
"blindfold" -- gag as in "joke"!)
I think Steve said it best:
> However, when the lyric is clearly trying to relate something
> deeper or something profound that connects us all AND when I don't
> relate to it, it can't help but lessen my experience with the song.
Gary
P.S. We truly have a great community here that we can discuss such
topics without everybody freaking out.
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