And don't forget Scratchy...
Posted on 04/06/2015 4:37:53 PM PDT by 9thLife
“has the same meaning as MacArthur Park and Blinded by the Light”
Naw.
MacArtnur Park is meaningless. Both Blinded by the Light and American Pie have meaningful passages and overall themes, as well as pure poetry.
Blinded by the Light is about playing in a New Jersey bar band, a kind of slice of life. e.g.
“Some silicone sister with her manager mister
Told me I got what it takes
He said i’l turn you on sonny to something strong
If you play the song with the funky breaks”
Dude with big breast-implant girlfriend offers him good drugs if he plays a song he likes.
“Go cart Mozart checking out the weather chart, seeing if it’s safe out side.”
Speed freak musician looking outside to see if the cops are around.
Etc...
What every line means is hard to say, but it’s not MacArthur Park.
oy. I just don’t know what to think about that. But as a singer, she does nothing for me.
I believe it was Diogenes who observed that the artist is the person least capable of explaining their work.
Vincent is an incredibly beautiful song.
American Pie seems to have a lot of obvious cultural references to the 50’s/60’s.
“American Pie” was, of course, the name of the airplane. It took three seminal characters in Rock ‘n’ Roll history down with it. The song is about the loss of McClean’s youth.
I can’t stand the song - way too long, embarrassing forced rhymes, and pretentious.
And don't forget Scratchy...
The song came about when Columbia president Clive Davis, upon listening to an early version of Greetings from Asbury Park N.J., felt the album lacked a potential single. Springsteen wrote this and “Spirit in the Night” in response.
According to Springsteen, the song came about from going through a rhyming dictionary in search of appropriate words. The first line of the song, “Madman drummers, bummers, and Indians in the summers with a teenage diplomat” is autobiographical—”Madman drummers” is a reference to drummer Vini Lopez, known as “Mad Man” (later changed to “Mad Dog”); “Indians in the summer” refers to the name of Springsteen’s old Little League team; “teenage diplomat” refers to himself. The remainder of the song tells of many unrelated events, with the refrain of “Blinded by the light, cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night”.
“MacArthur Park” was written and composed by Jimmy Webb in the summer and fall of 1967.[1] The inspiration for the song was his relationship and breakup with Susie Horton,[5] who later married David Ronstadt, a cousin of singer Linda Ronstadt. MacArthur Park, in Los Angeles, California, was where the two occasionally met for lunch and spent their most enjoyable times together.[4] At that time (the middle of 1965), Horton worked for a life insurance company whose offices were located just across the street from the park.[4] In an interview with Newsday magazine in October 2014, Webb explained:
Everything in the song was visible. There’s nothing in it that’s fabricated. The old men playing checkers by the trees, the cake that was left out in the rain, all of the things that are talked about in the song are things I actually saw. And so it’s a kind of musical collage of this whole love affair that kind of went down in MacArthur Park. ... Back then, I was kind of like an emotional machine, like whatever was going on inside me would bubble out of the piano and onto paper.[5]
Webb and Horton remained friends, even after her marriage to another man. The breakup was also the primary influence for “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” another selection of Webb’s authorship and composition.[4] After his relationship breakup, Webb stayed for a while at the residence of Buddy Greco, upon whose piano the piece was composed and originally dedicated. Greco closed all his shows with this number for the most recent forty years.
Madonna’s version is really bad. I mean, even for Madonna it is bad.
Well, yeah.
In my opinion, the song, “Vincent” was a better product.
Johnny Bravo! Groovy
Meanders is the key word. He seems to have had one thought - the Buddy Holly plane crash - and then filled up the rest of the space with some phrases that seem to have emotional content. You start to get caught up in the emotion, and then you stop yourself and say, "Wait... what?"
Up and coming touring acts are starving to death. You are correct. If they did not like playing music they would have quit long ago.
Country music— to quote Tom Petty (who was referring to the FL-GA line band) is “just bad rock with a fiddle”.
There is formulaic country crap music that literally derives from the same beat and melody lines, graphically represented from the studio tracks of the songs put together in this youtube (warning, they are ALL in the same key and beat pattern with equally idiotic pablum lyrics), and that is the “formula”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vapt5C3yDeY
Have seen that written as “Lennon read a book on Marx”.... then “the quartet practiced in the park” and “we sang dirges in the dark” the day the music died.
Referencing the Beatles, thought to be. As was the satan reference being hendrix. So, there’s that.
It sure sold.
Blinded by the Light written by Springsteen.
Madonna’s version sucks!!
There, I said it.
Where do you guys go and hang that you don’t see local bands playing local venues and getting bigger? Or great bands with loyal followings slowly growing through the ranks? It’s all still happening. One example I can think of currently is Coheed & Cambria.
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