Any Dawes fans here? One of my all time favorite bands. This is an older live set of theirs.
The lead singer is married to Mandy Moore, so he's got that going for him.
No, if Kpop stands for KillpopIt’s terrible music. That’s all you need to know.
Yep, they certainly are. I love me some Zevon too! Another one of my favorite bands, Deer Tick, are huge Zevon fans also and always seem to work a cover into their live shows. I sense a pattern here...Dawes are big fans of Warren Zevon and you can hear his influence in a lot of their music.
Yep, they certainly are. I love me some Zevon too! Another one of my favorite bands, Deer Tick, are huge Zevon fans also and always seem to work a cover into their live shows. I sense a pattern here...
Love it.
I’ve noticed you get the Zevon references I sometimes sprinkle in my posts.
He was fantastic at opening lyrics (& lyrics in general). Lawyers Guns & Money is probably the best of a great opening lyric crop, but I’m fond of this one as a relative unknown:
Gambler ambled down a country lane
Looking for a game of chance
She was twenty-one or two
And she knew what she wanted
And she wanted that gamblin’ man
First, yes, Mama Couldn't Be Persuaded is fantastic.
Second, yes, Zevon was great at jumping right into a song and setting the tone for the thing instantly. "Sitting on the sofa, sucking a bowl of crack" is about as direct as it gets for setting a scene, for instance.
Agh, how could I forget:
"I lay my head on the railroad track
And wait for the Double-E
The railroad don't run no more
Poor, poor, pitiful me."
Edit: "GRANDPA PISSED HIS PANTS AGAIN" is a song opener that makes me laugh every time
His gift of getting right to the point in a humorous manner is as good as it gets.
In Mama Couldn’t Be Persuaded, which I’m glad you appreciate, there’s no doubt in my mind that “she was 21-or two” in the opening stanza about his gambling father is a sly reference to blackjack as well as his mother.
Play it All Night Long is an all-time song opener for me. That whole first verse is amazing.Agh, how could I forget:
"I lay my head on the railroad track
And wait for the Double-E
The railroad don't run no more
Poor, poor, pitiful me."
Edit: "GRANDPA PISSED HIS PANTS AGAIN" is a song opener that makes me laugh every time
Carmelita is fantastic.I'd never caught the age as a reference to his mother being a big win or crushing loss before, but I think you're right. That's probably not accidental at all.
Another sly bit of songwriting, since Carmelita is posted, is "Well I'm sitting here, playing solitaire with my pearl-handled deck" as a Russian Roulette reference.
I always liked Mama Couldn’t be Persuaded, but it took me a while before the incredibly clever blackjack reference to his mother’s young age & his father’s gambling habit in the first few lines of the song hit me. The man was operating on another plane.I'd never caught the age as a reference to his mother being a big win or crushing loss before, but I think you're right. That's probably not accidental at all.
Another sly bit of songwriting, since Carmelita is posted, is "Well I'm sitting here, playing solitaire with my pearl-handled deck" as a Russian Roulette reference.
Mr Bad Example is essentially a collection of "opening line" level lines.
it's all about Jpop now Toe. get with the times.Kpop sucks.
@Captain Dave Poulin is a Kpop Stan on twitter.
You know how you feel when I say, I’ve never heard of/don’t like an ancient movie? That’s how I feel when you say that.I am a Jpop fanatic, but I stan BLACKPINK.
You know how you feel when I say, I’ve never heard of/don’t like an ancient movie? That’s how I feel when you say that.