Welcome to another weekly look into the music world. Hosted bi-weekly by myself and @cyclones500. With a special thanks and shout out to @CycloneRulzzz for his contribution to the cause last week!
Whilst I had a more ambitious artist profile in mind for this week, I have had to postpone it due to company at this time. I did not have time to pull it all together with the necessary research. I will be looking forward to foisting that off onto you unsuspecting readers next time around, I hope.
Surprisingly (or maybe not) the idea/theme for this weeks OTN posting actually came up in discussion Tuesday with my visitor(s). With this group there are always lots of musical thoughts and snippets thrown about. We talk and share our musical favorites and explain why we do or don't like them.
At some point I mentioned I've developed a certain appeal to songs that celebrate the trials and tribulations of average working stiff. The Thoreau quote excerpted in the title always rang true to me. I too felt that desperation and longing not to face the drudgery of work.
One particular song that I shared Tuesday fits this to a T. But my guests, while well familiar with the song, were quite surprised by it's lyrics and directness. That song is Synchronicity II by the Police.
Yes, you probably know the song. Please give it another listen; this version includes the lyrics. Brilliantly constructed, you see it definitely is about a desperate working family man. I particularly have always liked the lyrics (and delivery of same), "And every meeting with his so called superiors, is another humiliating kick in the crotch!" And don't forget, "We have to shout above the din our our Rice Crispies, we can't hear anything at all."
Another favorite in this genre is Elton John's Roy Rogers from the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road double album. The literal and metaphoric use of Roy Rogers as his late night television escape and his dream of being free of life's obligations, works magic. "Comic book characters never grow old... Turn on the TV, shut out the lights, Roy Rogers is riding tonight."
One more to me - deeply moving song here - then a couple of a more general nature. Jackson Browne's The Pretender from the album of the same name is chock full of sympathetic hard hitting lyrics like, "Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender." and "I'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. Where the ads take aim and lay their claim, to the heart and the soul of the spender."
Now a couple more general, maybe not so deeply poetic but still about working and how it can sap the soul of a person.
Please post songs about working, getting away from work or how people deal with the realities of having to work for a living. Or even celebrating the end of a work day, work week, or some small victory over our working obligations and drudgery.
Whilst I had a more ambitious artist profile in mind for this week, I have had to postpone it due to company at this time. I did not have time to pull it all together with the necessary research. I will be looking forward to foisting that off onto you unsuspecting readers next time around, I hope.
Surprisingly (or maybe not) the idea/theme for this weeks OTN posting actually came up in discussion Tuesday with my visitor(s). With this group there are always lots of musical thoughts and snippets thrown about. We talk and share our musical favorites and explain why we do or don't like them.
At some point I mentioned I've developed a certain appeal to songs that celebrate the trials and tribulations of average working stiff. The Thoreau quote excerpted in the title always rang true to me. I too felt that desperation and longing not to face the drudgery of work.
One particular song that I shared Tuesday fits this to a T. But my guests, while well familiar with the song, were quite surprised by it's lyrics and directness. That song is Synchronicity II by the Police.
Yes, you probably know the song. Please give it another listen; this version includes the lyrics. Brilliantly constructed, you see it definitely is about a desperate working family man. I particularly have always liked the lyrics (and delivery of same), "And every meeting with his so called superiors, is another humiliating kick in the crotch!" And don't forget, "We have to shout above the din our our Rice Crispies, we can't hear anything at all."
Another favorite in this genre is Elton John's Roy Rogers from the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road double album. The literal and metaphoric use of Roy Rogers as his late night television escape and his dream of being free of life's obligations, works magic. "Comic book characters never grow old... Turn on the TV, shut out the lights, Roy Rogers is riding tonight."
One more to me - deeply moving song here - then a couple of a more general nature. Jackson Browne's The Pretender from the album of the same name is chock full of sympathetic hard hitting lyrics like, "Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender." and "I'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. Where the ads take aim and lay their claim, to the heart and the soul of the spender."
Now a couple more general, maybe not so deeply poetic but still about working and how it can sap the soul of a person.
Please post songs about working, getting away from work or how people deal with the realities of having to work for a living. Or even celebrating the end of a work day, work week, or some small victory over our working obligations and drudgery.
