Alright, well this is my favourite Bad Company song. Whenever I hear this song, I always think of Homer Simpson, a character from the popular series The Simpsons doing his rendition of it ( http://download.lardlad.com/sounds/season12/snow14.mp3 ) and it brings back the nostalgic feeling of being a child again, what a great television program that used to be. Anyways, this song was recorded on their second album, Straight Shooter, and was released June of 1975. This song was declared number seventy-eighth best hard rock song ever by VH1, a short-lived music television program that was pretty much MTV, except based on older music, oh yeah, and they were actually about music. Now if you listen to the chorus, you might notice (if you like The Who) that the riff is almost exactly the same as The Who's Sparks, an instrumental that was released six years earlier. I found this to be quite intriguing, as instrumentals are quite beautiful, but they have no lyrics, meaning that the notes and chords are everything, and if someone copies a riff off an instrumental, it seems more like a slap in the face than sampling a riff from a song with lyrics, but hey, that's just my take.
Bowie's going of glam, his farewell, his acknowledgement of the end of an era. Rebel Rebel is a David Bowie song released in 1974 on Bowie's eighth studio album, Diamond Dogs. This is currently the most covered Bowie song, and was the last of his glam-rock songs, his trademark, his stamp. The first thing to notice when listening to this song is the intro riff; the most beautifully-haunting riff you'll ever find, always leaving a slight smirk at the corner of my mouth. If you consider the meaning of this song, a few things will come to mind. In my opinion, it's about the end of the glam age, the finality of the era where one could dress as the opposite gender and it would be perfectly acceptable in numerous situations; that's what it's all about, free love and not caring who knows.
