Philosophy and Greatness
For a Rock Song to achieve timelessness it must have an underlying philosophy. Without a universal theme that all men can relate to, a song will not be able to remain popular for generations. Certain songs have this quality; hence they transcend time among them…
Like a Rolling Stone- Bob Dylan
Stairway to Heaven- Led [...]
Green Day, a “punk rock” band, when evaluated by the puerile4 album names, lacks any sort of philosophical depth. Yet this band sold over eight million copies of an album called Dookie in the U.S. alone and over eleven million internationally5. Then the band follows up with inane names such as Nimrod and American Idiot. [...]
On May 31, 1975 a man dressed in audaciously colored tights pranced around on a stage in Huntsville, Alabama1 and sang the lyrics of “Trouble” into the yearning ears of thousands of adolescents. This man was Elvis Presley. Known to the younger generation as the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, and to the older as [...]
The RX Bandits don’t play ska any more. Their newest album, …And The Battle Begun, is probably more “progressive rock” than anything else. But it really goes beyond a simple term. The eclectic yet powerful sound of the new Bandits album is more reminiscent of “21st Century Schizoid Man” than any Specials or Less Than Jake [...]
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The American teenager is often depicted as either a mindless fad-chaser listening to the latest shallow boy-band music, or as a scarily intense quasi-vampire child that listens to nothing but mind-numbing death metal. While these two cases [...]