| The Cadillacs – Speedo Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[normynull:49368] right on! I used to listen to it when it was 78rpm vinyl (or stiff plastic) and on the radio (Brooklyn Paramount Theater) I believe with Alan Freed. Deep, deep in the history and annals of Rock 'n Roll. | |
| The Cadillacs – Speedo Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[rolypolywoofwoof:49367] Wow, are you off. You must be a young pup. The song was a DoWop song from the 1950s. One of the greatest of the era. Read a bit about them and listen with an open mind. | |
| Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Wooden Ships Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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I have read everyone's comments and don't have any thing I can add or modify. While some of the details are not my thoughts, the general sense is true to my thoughts. EXCEPT for one thing that seems to be missing. The NEW meaning of the song in today's world of violence on a world/societal and personal scale. The current lack of talking to one another, accepting we are all the same - in the same violent situation - and as the song suggests capable of viewing each other as friends, with a way together to escape the violence. To me the most significant meaning(s) are talking, accepting, sharing, sympothy for each other. Unfortunately, the "leaders" of our world and civilization seem unable to talk, accept, share, and express sympathy. I lived through WWII, Korea, Vietnam (classified 1A by the Selective Service - draftable. Arlo's song "Alice's Restaurant" is an exact description of my induction process.) and every war the world has offered as a path to peaceful living. Killing and Violence always and every time results more killing and violence. All are about one sides idea of "right" (really concurring and submission or destruction of another group of people). I understand my comments do not deal directly with the lyrics or the motivation for the lyrics, but after all this time, I and extermely disappointed that our society, world at large, hasn't learned a lesson from that song as well as from all the violence that has filled our lives since then and unfortunately expanded to a much more senseless and individual state. Expressing differences by attacking those that are different than you only increases the differences. Ammon Hennessy: "You were born a white man in mid-twentieth century industrial America. You came into the world armed to the teeth with an arsenal of weapons. The weapons of privilege, racial privilege, sexual privilege, economic privilege. You wanna be a pacifist, it's not just giving up guns and knives and clubs and fists and angry words, but giving up the weapons of privilege, and going into the world completely disarmed. Try that. An anarchist is someone who doesn’t need a cop to tell him what to do. Good people don’t need the laws and the bad people don’t obey them, so what good are they anyway? Force is the weapon of the weak." “You got to be a pacifist, when surrounded by violence, you got to be a pacifist to deal with it. It’ll save your life. Look at it like booze. Alcoholism will kill somebody, until they finally get the courage to sit in a circle of people like them and put their hand up and say “Hi, I’m an alcoholic.” It’s the same with violence, you got to be able to put your hand up in the air and say “Hi, I’m violent.” You’ll never get beyond it, you need to always acknowledge it. If you want to be a pacifist, you need to give up the weapons of privilege. You have to go into the world completely disarmed. Think about it.” “You know you love the country, you just can’t stand the government, get it straight.” Mark Twain: “Loyalty to the country always, loyalty to the government when it deserves it.” Utah Phillips: “I learned in Korea that I would never again in my life, abdicate to somebody else my right and my ability to decide who the enemy is.” For me it was Vietnam. Do we really have enemies or just people with different beliefs? Would listening and discussion offer a peaceful and accepting solution. Lydon Banes Johnson - "If you're not listening, you're not learning." Bryant H. McGill "One of the most sincere forms of respect is listening to actually what another has to say." I can't remember who said this nor the exact wording - You learn by listen, you repeat what you already know by talking. Peace in your life, your world, your time. |
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