this churning rocker, featuring a suitably chest-beating Axl Rose vocal, is considerably less bucolic, with its street-level lyric (“Your Daddy works in porno/Now that mommy’s not around/She used to love her heroin
David told me funny anecdotes that relate to those occasional shows that he did with Gord. Unfortunately, although I asked him about that time (and David remembered only anecdotes and actually couldn't say when he last played with Gord but thought it was probably 1965, as I had guessed), ...
It is a simple tale of a mother and son, one that unfurls under the vague memories of a “good old fashion world” as a mother sees her boy off to war and then returns to welcome him home. As she regales him on her son’s departure, Mrs. Brown speaks for all of us. She hugs...
Many of the best US political protest songs relate tot he Vietnam War, and one of the best is “Fortunate Son” by CCR. Fogerty is pretty blunt and loud in speaking for the working, middle and low-income earners, the sons drafted to fight. John Fogerty told Rolling Stone, “Julie Nixo...
These are the songs that sum up her wit, her empathy, her flair for emotional excess, her girls-to-the-front bravado, her urge to ransack every corner of pop history, her determination to turn any chorus into a ridiculous spectacle. So let’s step back from the image and pay homage ...
All children have the right to get love and protection from everyone around them. Children are God's creatures that must be protected by everyone from various backgrounds. Children are unable to live and determine their destiny without help from those around them such as parents, the government,...
Remembering the days of one's youth is certainly one of those common themes, and something that most people can relate to. What is particularly effective about this lilting waltz is that it reflects both the past and the present joys of leisure in the summer, hopefully an idea that is not...
Still though the two assistants to the doctor were impressed at how well the tooth looked when it came out, I kept both the main part of tooth and the root. After more than twenty years of the root being broken I finally had the tooth extracted, end of an era and something that had...
Why are you doing this performative fraternal visitation now?The answer comes as “we needed you/to love us too/we waited for your move.” We’re given a set of people (or perhaps just one faction) who struggles to love people and relate to them properly. ...
Ah the 70’s! The era of the changing generation. Though it may have been a time of war, political and racial anxieties, civil unrest, and many more important social issues, it was also when the emergence of classic rock music came to be. The core of the previous decade was about fig...