The last Songbook post considered rock Fame and its relations to Celebrity and Honorable Ambition with plenty of help from political philosophy, and a little from ALMOST FAMOUS, too; moving back to the film (which is proving rich enough for, look out, two more parts after this!), this part will be . . . . Continue Reading »
[ Note: by the criteria laid out in Songbook #12 , this is not a Rock song, but a rock n’ roll one. ] The last Songbook post raised the problem of repetition, of “new music” that is only sort of new. The first sign that recorded pop music could not remain ever-progressive in its . . . . Continue Reading »
I could try to be big in the eyes of the world, what matters to me is what I could be to just one girl . . . Ah . . . the calming beauty of Pet Sounds , where to my ears, the undercurrent of melancholy is more than compensated for by the main pull of gentle encouragement, even if it does end on the . . . . Continue Reading »
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