End Of An Era
Willie Nelson has given up smoking weed due to issues with his lungs. I have a feeling he will still be getting his dosage in a different form though. He said regarding his health: “I don’t give a fuck. I’m here, I’m glad to be here. I’m lucky to be here”
Album of The Week
Document- R.E.M. (1987)
“Vested interest, united ties
Landed gentry, rationalize
Look who bought the myth
By Jingo, buy America”
“This one goes out to the one I love
This one goes out to the one I’ve left behind
A simple prop to occupy my time”
The fifth album from R.E.M. contains the band’s unabashed political statements that are just as relevant today as they were at the time. An album who’s initial track kicks off with a song about the plight of the worker and is immediately followed by one deriding interventionism and to build on those one examining the rise of McCarthyism on the extreme right. Then you have perhaps the song that feels like it was written today It’s The End of The World As We Know It.
Best New Track: Texas Sun
“Take a ride with me baby
You by my side
How does it sound
You and I
Oh girl”
Kids
“Oh I’m just a kid
I’m afraid of the dark
But I’m obsessed with ideas
One day I’ll go far”
Reasons I Drink
“These are the reasons I drink
The reasons I tell everybody I’m fine even though I am not”
Alabama Pines
“It’s the only open liquor store north and I can’t stand the pain
Of being by myself without a little help
On a Sunday afternoon”
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