| Frank Zappa – Uncle Remus Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| My friend's parents' house had one of those jockey statues at the end of their driveway. It was black-faced and was holding up a lantern with it's left hand as though it was tending to a horse early in the morning or after dark. It was just one of those things they'd bought to decorate their front yard. "Very cool", I thought and it never occurred to me that it could be indicative of racists having lived in that house. They not racists and were very nice people and so is my friend, whose parents are long dead now. After the house was sold, I happened to be driving past one day and noticed that the face of the jockey had been painted over in white. I didn't really know what to make of that except that perhaps it was a case of white guilt since the house is in a nicer neighborhood about 25 miles north of Detroit. These white-flight bedroom communites had all been vilified by the most racist mayor in Detroit's history. His name was Colemen A. Young, a liberal democrat. | |
| Steve Winwood – Shootout At The Fantasy Factory Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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| Traffic – The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Don't forget the fact that this song was written by both Steve Winwood and Jim Capaldi. Jim's contribution to the lyrics of this song may have been minimal or he could have been the originator of the concept behind it with Steve in there adding some equally mysterious and suggestive lines. Whatever it is, it captured a certain spirit the band was going with at the time and it continued into their follow-up album, Shootout At The Fantasy Factory whose title song (of the same name) is also steeped in far out-sounding lyrics. I suspect that Jim Capaldi's part in both song's compostions were in the lyrics as much as Winwood's part was in the music. It's hard to tell the Winwood from the Capaldi and the Capaldi from the Winwood on these two Traffic albums...and don't forget Chris Wood because he was much more than just a saxophone player. | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Drifting Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song, I imagine, could have been written about Apollo 13. Look at the lyrics- Drifting On a sea of forgotten teardrops On a lifeboat Sailing for Your love Sailing home Drifting On a sea of old heartbreaks On a lifeboat Sailing for Your love Sailing home It was 1970, less than six months before Jimi died. He loved the space program, science fiction, technology, etc. Was this song his artistic expression of what it would have been like to be in such a predicament? We'll never know for sure but to me, this is how I think he tried to relate to it. Beautiful, just beautiful. |
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