On Keith’s birthday I decided to start a little feature where I’ll find a video, or just post a song of Keith correctly interpreting a song that the original artist probably just got all wrong anyway. Today, we have Worried Life Blues. Now you know how it’s really supposed to be!
What is the musical foundation of Classic (ie, Roger Waters-led) Pink Floyd?
Last week I heard “Run Like Hell” on the radio for the first time in years. I always liked that song a little bit, at least parts of it. At the same time, it’s always been one of many Pink Floyd songs that make me nauseous. I think the nausea I’ve experienced in songs like this one and “Have a Cigar” have something to do with the heavy use of delay and Waters’ knack for coming up with the least-pleasant melodies in rock. But the nausea-inducing qualities of Pink Floyd were not at the front of my mind while this song played.
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What were the odds on Keith Richards turning 65? Must be that fine English cooking!
I understand why they fired me, but did they have to get so fucking cold and ruthless about it?
—Doug Hopkins (Rolling Stone, 1993)
DISCLAIMER: The Gin Blossoms were the bar band in Phoenix during my post college years. So many weekends were spent drinkin’, smokin’ and dancin’ up a sweat with The Gin Blossoms. Point is, I may be biased.
But hear me out.
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This is the most exciting find I’ve uncovered in some time. Can someone please explain what this is…and why? Thanks.
Think the younger generation, growing up with visions of one day mastering Pro Tools, has fantasies like this?
For those who won’t – who can’t – wave the white flag, this Last Man Standing has returned to The Main Stage!
I was listening to The Who’s “Magic Bus” the other day and it occurred to me that I first learned the word queue while grooving to this song. To this point, who knows how many British terms and slang I’d learned from The Beatles and The Stones, but I distinctly remember becoming aware of this queue word thanks to “Magic Bus”. I was probably 13 or 14. In coming years I’d learn many more British terms and slang through rock songs. I’m sure you did too. In this week’s Last Man Standing, I ask that you recount British terms/slang and the specific rock songs that first exposed you to these words. It’s all right if more than one of you were first exposed to the word lorry, for instance, by two different songs.
Townspeople from outside the US are welcome to share the converse, American expressions first learned through specific rock songs.
