You remind me of the two first songs I ever remember hearing - Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" and the Coasters' "Little Egypt." These were literally some of my first memories, so I had no awareness of romantic love or sexuality. The former was to me a tale of some death-defying stuntman, the latter a surreal, incomprehensible collage worthy of Eliot, Burroughs or Dylan (not, of course, that I had any point of comparison at the time).
I believe "Sway" was the first track Mick Jagger played guitar on, and his rhythm guitar chords, big fat sloppy ones that sound like Keith, come crashing in right at the beginning. Keith only sings backup. I also love Paul Buckmaster's string arrangement. I consider Buckmaster one of the secrets of 70s music. He did a ton of Elton John songs. Yeah, I really love "Sway." Mick said somewhere that he knew it was impossible for him to do a proper southern accent so he decided to exaggerate it so people would know that he was just having fun with it.
By the way, you can’t tell me Jagger doesn’t sing, "It's just that demon life forgot you in its sway," which makes more sense with what I wrote, but the official lyrics say "has got you."
Do you have books that occupy the same sad nostalgic place in your mind? Something like, I dunno, Howl or more obviously Catcher in the Rye. But maybe something more obviously great that just doesn’t juice you anymore.
No, I relate to books very differently from how I relate to music. And I’ve read my favorite novels at most two or three times, whereas I’ve listened to a given Stones or Hole song hundreds of times in many different places. But it’s not about “juice,” it’s about a different way of relating.
You remind me of the two first songs I ever remember hearing - Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" and the Coasters' "Little Egypt." These were literally some of my first memories, so I had no awareness of romantic love or sexuality. The former was to me a tale of some death-defying stuntman, the latter a surreal, incomprehensible collage worthy of Eliot, Burroughs or Dylan (not, of course, that I had any point of comparison at the time).
I believe "Sway" was the first track Mick Jagger played guitar on, and his rhythm guitar chords, big fat sloppy ones that sound like Keith, come crashing in right at the beginning. Keith only sings backup. I also love Paul Buckmaster's string arrangement. I consider Buckmaster one of the secrets of 70s music. He did a ton of Elton John songs. Yeah, I really love "Sway." Mick said somewhere that he knew it was impossible for him to do a proper southern accent so he decided to exaggerate it so people would know that he was just having fun with it.
By the way, you can’t tell me Jagger doesn’t sing, "It's just that demon life forgot you in its sway," which makes more sense with what I wrote, but the official lyrics say "has got you."
Do you have books that occupy the same sad nostalgic place in your mind? Something like, I dunno, Howl or more obviously Catcher in the Rye. But maybe something more obviously great that just doesn’t juice you anymore.
No, I relate to books very differently from how I relate to music. And I’ve read my favorite novels at most two or three times, whereas I’ve listened to a given Stones or Hole song hundreds of times in many different places. But it’s not about “juice,” it’s about a different way of relating.