Robby on Mar 04 2007 | Filed under: Culture, Great Lyrics Series, Music, Robby's Page
(Lance’s listening notes: I just spent the evening with my wife and a friend at a little bar, in a very little town, Fordoche Louisiana, called the Red Monkey. I loaded up the Juke box with what interested me (no The Jam, Clash or Pixies) which ended up being The Band, Van Morrison, Creedence and […]
Robby on Nov 08 2006 | Filed under: Culture, Great Lyrics Series, Humor, Media, Music, Robby's Page
When I decided to start writing about rock lyrics, I promised myself I wasn’t going to talk about the Beatles or Bob Dylan, because forests have already been harvested to provide the paper for musings on their lyrics, and I don’t really have anything further to add. At least not without breaking out some Marxist/feminist/Lacanian […]
Robby on Sep 22 2006 | Filed under: Culture, Great Lyrics Series, Music, Robby's Page, Uncategorized
Theology and moral codes tell us to be good, in conflict with our natural desires and appetites, which tell us the opposite: be bad! Take what you want! Look out for #1! Socializing ourselves to develop a sense of empathy–that is, an emotionally-based understanding for how our actions affect others–is crucial for the development of […]
MichaelW on Sep 21 2006 | Filed under: Great Lyrics Series, Humor, MichaelW's Page
It may be well known to you, dear reader, or it may not (it makes no difference), that Pogue Mahone is one of my favorite commenters, bloggers and writers. In fact, he’s been somewhat of a celebrity amongst my partners here, and our bretheren at QandO. His politics lean somewhat left for my […]
Robby on Aug 14 2006 | Filed under: Culture, Great Lyrics Series, Music, Robby's Page
(Second installment in the Great Lyrics Series)
I agree with Paul McCartney. There is nothing wrong with a silly love song, a perfectly useful thing to have around. A love song amplifies the feeling when you are in love and sweetly intensifies the ache when you aren’t and want to be. That can be true no […]
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