Popping
Iggy Pop, in a recent interview, when asked if he was surprised he was still alive revealed that he once stuck his tongue in a light socket and once tried smoking spider webs to get high. He said he wasn’t surprised he is still alive though, but I certainly am.
Album of The Week
The River - Bruce Springsteen (1980)
“I went out for a ride and I never went back
Like a river that don’t know where it’s flowing
I took a wrong turn and I just kept going”
“I come from down in the valley
Where, mister, when you’re young
They bring you up to do like your daddy done”
Springsteen’s only double album was also his first to go to number 1 on the charts, back when that meant something tangible. This album has a series of songs sung from the perspective of people beaten down by the American dream. It is his channeling of the plight of the American worker into catchy and misleadingly upbeat songs with more somber meanings that is the true genius behind Springsteen’s work. His manifestation of the anxiety and challenges faced by the average person trying to keep their families together in a society that wears down their spirit that makes his music so relatable. Even though he never worked in a factory himself, he does an incredible job making music around the stories of his friends and family growing up.
Best New Track: Touch
“You were acting like a different person
As if, suddenly, you wanted to just be friends”
9 to 5
“Working 9 to 5
What a way to make a living
Barely gettin’ by
It’s all taking
And no giving
They just use your mind
And you never get the credit”
Dust On The Ground
“And all is quiet
All is quiet now
And all is silent
All is silent now”
Minority
“‘Cause I wanna be the minority
I don’t need your authority
Down with the moral majority
’Cause I wanna be the minority”
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