Category: 1978

Chevys, Camaros, and Cadillacs or Meet me at the Lost & Found – Bruce Springsteen’s “Darkness on the Edge of Town”

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How can a white, salt-of-the-earth rock musician from New Jersey, obsessed with the metaphoric potential of car brands, his father's working class heritage and the ideal of rock music as a proletariat/political genre not only have a career spanning 20 albums, but make music that still sounds good to a 20-something arts student living in… Continue reading Chevys, Camaros, and Cadillacs or Meet me at the Lost & Found – Bruce Springsteen’s “Darkness on the Edge of Town”

I’m Drowning In A Sea Of Sound – Patti Smith’s “Easter”

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Finding meaning in music can be quite distracting. Especially, when focusing on words. Sometimes, I don't like to pay attention to the lyrics of an album. Sometimes, I am afraid that focusing on the lyrical message might change my experience of the record for the worse. Sometimes, all I want to do is judge it… Continue reading I’m Drowning In A Sea Of Sound – Patti Smith’s “Easter”