[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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