There's Calm in Your Eye
I write to you from the edge of a hurricane. I know that others of you are also at the edge of this same hurricane, sealed up tight in the box you call home. Never fear, for I am here to entertain you. For some reason.
When writing about music and hurricanes, there are really only two options. The first, most obvious, is to talk about The Scorpions and their paean to their own masculine prowess, "Rock You Like a Hurricane." Nobody really wants to hear about that, though. The jokes have all been made, so I don't don't need to make them here. I invite you to revisit them in your head now. I'll be waiting right here until you return.
*************INTERMISSION*************
Back so soon? Did you remember to laugh about the "giving her inches" and "feed her well" lines? No? I'd say you did a pretty half assed job of your mockery then, didn't you? Oh well. We're done talking about these Scorpions.
The other road to take when talking about musical hurricanes is Neil Young's "Like a Hurricane." It surprises me that none of us has gone on about Mr. Young here before, but I willingly take up the challenge--I'm only using this "hurricane" conceit in order to have a reason, because I really have no intention of talking about this song, lovely and filled with feedback that it is, because it's really just a bright spot at the beginning of Young's slow decline. Not that you would have known by listening to the radio that there was anything resembling a decline when that song appeared in the seventies. Neil Young owned seventies radio. There was never a time that don't remember hearing Neil Young. This is probably why I love him. His music just forms an often unrecognized bedrock in my musical taste. Specifically, I mean the music of the three albums that form Young's hot streak. These albums include:
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
After the Gold Rush
Harvest
It probably also makes sense to include Déjà Vu in this list, since that was at the same time.
Actually, I don't even know what to say about these albums. Describing why I like them is like describing why I like my feet. And every time I go through a period of not really liking music that much (now would be one of those times), I can still listen to these albums. I will flip though an entire collection, being disappointed with everything and not wanting to listen to anything, but then I always think, "Well Harvest wouldn't be so bad." And it never is.
So I guess go listen to these albums. And for crying out loud stop with the Scorpions jokes; that was like three paragraphs ago. You are so slow.
When writing about music and hurricanes, there are really only two options. The first, most obvious, is to talk about The Scorpions and their paean to their own masculine prowess, "Rock You Like a Hurricane." Nobody really wants to hear about that, though. The jokes have all been made, so I don't don't need to make them here. I invite you to revisit them in your head now. I'll be waiting right here until you return.
*************INTERMISSION*************
Back so soon? Did you remember to laugh about the "giving her inches" and "feed her well" lines? No? I'd say you did a pretty half assed job of your mockery then, didn't you? Oh well. We're done talking about these Scorpions.
The other road to take when talking about musical hurricanes is Neil Young's "Like a Hurricane." It surprises me that none of us has gone on about Mr. Young here before, but I willingly take up the challenge--I'm only using this "hurricane" conceit in order to have a reason, because I really have no intention of talking about this song, lovely and filled with feedback that it is, because it's really just a bright spot at the beginning of Young's slow decline. Not that you would have known by listening to the radio that there was anything resembling a decline when that song appeared in the seventies. Neil Young owned seventies radio. There was never a time that don't remember hearing Neil Young. This is probably why I love him. His music just forms an often unrecognized bedrock in my musical taste. Specifically, I mean the music of the three albums that form Young's hot streak. These albums include:
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
After the Gold Rush
Harvest
It probably also makes sense to include Déjà Vu in this list, since that was at the same time.
Actually, I don't even know what to say about these albums. Describing why I like them is like describing why I like my feet. And every time I go through a period of not really liking music that much (now would be one of those times), I can still listen to these albums. I will flip though an entire collection, being disappointed with everything and not wanting to listen to anything, but then I always think, "Well Harvest wouldn't be so bad." And it never is.
So I guess go listen to these albums. And for crying out loud stop with the Scorpions jokes; that was like three paragraphs ago. You are so slow.
4 Comments:
I have all of those albums, on vinyl even, but I never listen to them. You guys know, I hardly ever go back to the music of my teen years. But maybe I will since I figure Clara will like Neil Young. For me, I have trouble listening to stuff that's been on the radio the entirety of my life. I hate recorded music for the handful of songs that go on and on (in the exact same form), no matter how good.
But I really wrote to tell you I'm thinking about all you guys - writing from where we'll only get a mere trickle, while talking to my brother who is on the back end of the storm in Trinidad just hoping his roof is still on his house when he gets home.
Good luck to everyone in Houston! I'm worried about those who are still in Galveston.
Neil Young rules. It's sort of amazing it took someone as old as he to write a song like "Let's Impeach the President".
I'm still listening to Chicha Libre.
Thinking now about feet and how my friend thinks feet are like hands gone wrong and just cannot think about them or gets grossed out. Yet he likes apes.
There's an issue there.
Gray and somewhat still here in Austin. No rain. May completely miss us but regardless, Abe's first soccer match was canceled today AND they let school out early yesterday to help keep the roads clear. I don't know what the difference is between 12:45 and 2:45, but it is not my job to question.
Neil Young has an interesting section on his website where he invites other bands that are political to post their songs about it. Kind of interesting. Some friends posted to it.
BTW there is a third option, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 "Hurricane". Doesn't seem to exist anywhere on YouTube, but I can provide for the NAPcast.
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