the thing that's amazing to me about this song is the extreme contrast between the apparent sentiment of its single sung phrase and the increasingly bile-fueled belligerence of its delivery. new days are new beginnings and, conventionally speaking, they tend to be about possibility, hope; the slate is clean, anything can happen. but by the end of the track the vocals are being howled and sputtered and screamed with such ferocity, the guitar is a caustic wall of noise, you have to wonder how much hope is really being expressed. it's like waking up and realizing nothing has changed, everything is just as fucked as it was when you went to sleep. (the cover art is completely of a piece with this i think -- it's a sunrise, but the sky is an ugly brown, and a single searing ray of sun cuts through a black horizon.) to my mind, it's all an amazing achievement from only three words, a double-time drum beat, and a single, simple chord progression.
Yet, it's funny that Dave Grohl references this in a song about hope "Times Like These":
"I am a new day rising".
I have heard he loves the Huskers.
Yet, it's funny that Dave Grohl references this in a song about hope "Times Like These":
"I am a new day rising".
I have heard he loves the Huskers.
As much as I hate it, I'm at that stage of life where a new day rising isn't seen as hope for change. I still wake up with my same problems, whether it's getting up late, eating too much junk food, not spending as much time at the gym as I wanted to because I woke up late because I went to...
As much as I hate it, I'm at that stage of life where a new day rising isn't seen as hope for change. I still wake up with my same problems, whether it's getting up late, eating too much junk food, not spending as much time at the gym as I wanted to because I woke up late because I went to bed late...
I completely agree. It's about hope and new beginnings and possibilities. I also view the building, belligerent delivery of the lyric as an ecstatic climax and not necessarily fueled by anger.
I completely agree. It's about hope and new beginnings and possibilities. I also view the building, belligerent delivery of the lyric as an ecstatic climax and not necessarily fueled by anger.
the thing that's amazing to me about this song is the extreme contrast between the apparent sentiment of its single sung phrase and the increasingly bile-fueled belligerence of its delivery. new days are new beginnings and, conventionally speaking, they tend to be about possibility, hope; the slate is clean, anything can happen. but by the end of the track the vocals are being howled and sputtered and screamed with such ferocity, the guitar is a caustic wall of noise, you have to wonder how much hope is really being expressed. it's like waking up and realizing nothing has changed, everything is just as fucked as it was when you went to sleep. (the cover art is completely of a piece with this i think -- it's a sunrise, but the sky is an ugly brown, and a single searing ray of sun cuts through a black horizon.) to my mind, it's all an amazing achievement from only three words, a double-time drum beat, and a single, simple chord progression.
Definitely agree with your interpretation.
Definitely agree with your interpretation.
Yet, it's funny that Dave Grohl references this in a song about hope "Times Like These": "I am a new day rising". I have heard he loves the Huskers.
Yet, it's funny that Dave Grohl references this in a song about hope "Times Like These": "I am a new day rising". I have heard he loves the Huskers.
As much as I hate it, I'm at that stage of life where a new day rising isn't seen as hope for change. I still wake up with my same problems, whether it's getting up late, eating too much junk food, not spending as much time at the gym as I wanted to because I woke up late because I went to...
As much as I hate it, I'm at that stage of life where a new day rising isn't seen as hope for change. I still wake up with my same problems, whether it's getting up late, eating too much junk food, not spending as much time at the gym as I wanted to because I woke up late because I went to bed late...
I completely agree. It's about hope and new beginnings and possibilities. I also view the building, belligerent delivery of the lyric as an ecstatic climax and not necessarily fueled by anger.
I completely agree. It's about hope and new beginnings and possibilities. I also view the building, belligerent delivery of the lyric as an ecstatic climax and not necessarily fueled by anger.