[Jandek] has anybody analyzed the lyrics in a
scholarlymanner?
Kip Shepherd
kipshepherd at hotmail.com
Fri Apr 28 09:51:51 PDT 2006
>Had to reply to this cause interestingly I read it immediately after
>listening to Neil Young's "Revolution Blues." For those who don't know it,
>it includes such lyrics as "well I hear that Laurel Canyon is full of
>famous stars/I hate them worse than lepers and we'll shoot them in their
>cars."
>
>Obviously Neil is not going to do this.
Neil says that he wrote "Revolution Blues" from the revolutionary's POV.
It's like writing a story, Neil wrote the song from a character's
perspective.
If you haven't read Shakey, you should. It's very good.
Kip
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