submissions
| Gentle Giant – Experience Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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wonderful and complex song that perfectly mixes great progressive rock and Gregorian Chants (which seems like an Unorthodox mix) lol |
submissions
| Randy Newman – Rednecks Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Randy Newman says that he wrote "Rednecks" in response to an episode of The Dick Cavett Show in the early 1970s (just before Newman's Good Old Boys album was released). Lester Maddox (governor of Georgia at the time) was the guest on the episode with NFL star Jim Brown. Dick Cavett made some rude comments to Maddox and the audience taunted Maddox on the show and wouldn't let him speak. Maddox became fed up and , on air, got up and left the stage. Newman was furious after watching the episode and as the lyrics say: "I went to the park and I took some paper along - and that's where I made this song."
In the linear notes of the album, Randy makes this statement about 'Rednecks': "I thought, if I were a resident of Georgia, I'd be angry at these people, this New York audience and the New York TV commentator. As if they were treating black people SO much better, you know. There wasn't that sort of moral superiority. The difference was, down South racism was law, up North it was just de facto. So that's what I wrote about". |
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