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.
Alright! Well next Monday in my elective, we will be listening to Stones! This is an amazing song, full of intricate symbolism and beautifully woven instrumental parts. Paint it black was released on The Rolling Stones' fourth album, in 1966, Aftermath, under the title of "Paint it, Black". The song originally had no comma, but Decca, the record label, added one, I prefer it without one. This song peaked at number one in both the UK, and the US on the Billboards top 100, and was the first top track to feature sitar, which in my opinion, really makes the song. Mick Jagger quoted saying that Paint it Black was about a funeral, but there are many people who think it's about internal struggles between the good and bad sides, some believe it's about going through puberty, and some declare it's about the war in Vietnam. When I first heard the song, however, I was pretty young, so I envisioned Jagger going around with a paintbrush making everything back, I had a fairly innocent childhood. Hope you enjoy the song!
