My apologies for the recent lack of postings. My life has been taken up by two writing projects, a tenure dossier, and other stuff. Here's a quick post about something that my wife and I discussed at dinner last night.
R.E.M.'s "It's the end of the world as we know it" came on the radio at the restaurant, and I remarked that someday I'd like to do a paper on "list" songs. I'm not quite sure what I would write about other than to mention that they're all basically lists of things, typically delivered in a rapid manner. My wife pointed out that it tends to cut across genres, which is interesting. Here are some examples:
(Obviously) R.E.M.'s "It's the end of the world as we know it" (sorry--embedding is disabled for this video)
Billy Joel's "We didn't start the fire"
INXS, "Mediate" (thanks to my wife for the suggestion)
Blackalicious, "Chemical calisthenics"
There's a whole subgenre of rap (in particular) that offers a list of female conquests:
Jay-Z, "Girls, girls, girls"
Ice-T, "99 problems" (sorry for the homemade video; this is definitely NC-17)
Ludacris feat. Nate Dogg, "Area codes"
Beastie Boys, "Girls" (not the official video, but quite entertaining!)
Of course, these songs are not new in the history of music. Consider:'
I'd welcome suggestions for other songs. If you have any thoughts about the topic, those would be welcome too.
R.E.M.'s "It's the end of the world as we know it" came on the radio at the restaurant, and I remarked that someday I'd like to do a paper on "list" songs. I'm not quite sure what I would write about other than to mention that they're all basically lists of things, typically delivered in a rapid manner. My wife pointed out that it tends to cut across genres, which is interesting. Here are some examples:
(Obviously) R.E.M.'s "It's the end of the world as we know it" (sorry--embedding is disabled for this video)
Billy Joel's "We didn't start the fire"
INXS, "Mediate" (thanks to my wife for the suggestion)
Blackalicious, "Chemical calisthenics"
There's a whole subgenre of rap (in particular) that offers a list of female conquests:
Jay-Z, "Girls, girls, girls"
Ice-T, "99 problems" (sorry for the homemade video; this is definitely NC-17)
Ludacris feat. Nate Dogg, "Area codes"
Beastie Boys, "Girls" (not the official video, but quite entertaining!)
Of course, these songs are not new in the history of music. Consider:'
I'd welcome suggestions for other songs. If you have any thoughts about the topic, those would be welcome too.