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I must start out saying I am going to get a lot of shit for this post. If you are a uber fan of Michael Jackson I would highly advise not reading the rest of this post.

I am apalled by humanity today. Over the past decade I had started to discover a theory about how humanity is becoming weak. If anything the reaction to Michael Jackson’s death has helped to prove my theory true. People are shocked about Jackson’s death. To that, I can agree the man was only fifty years old, but the shock is not what I am getting at. People are actually extremely upset that he has passed away. Now I could understand if this man was Ghandi, Mother Theresa, or a person who was a genuinly good person but we are talking about Michael Jackson a man who slept with little children. He was a pedophile. There were multiple allegations of him sleeping with kids. Because of that, I can not understand why people are crying and even more so outlashing at Jackson’s critics.  Did people cry when the news of Hitler died? How about Saddam Huessein? Ok, so their families and friends might have and I suppose they have the right to. But did the general public? No. And I know what those are going to say, that that comparison is not fair, Jackson was not a person who committed genocide nor was he a dictator. Fair enough. Well lets look at Blair Evans. Who is Blair Evans? Well he is a pedophile but he did not create any music. Do you think anyone outside of his family and friends would cry because he died? NO! They would not even care. But Michael Jackson created music, and for some reason that is supposed to give him a pass. Some have asked well what if Kobe Bryant were to die? That would be horrible BUT it wouldn’t make him any less of an adulterer. Humanity has become weak. I think I will go create a piece of music and sell it to 50,000 people so that way I can get away with stealing a penny from the penny jar, because if I create music apparently it lets you do anything you want. I do not wish death on people like Jackson, that is cruel, but excuse me if I don’t understand how people are extremely upset. Excuse me if I don’t feel sad to the point where I cry because I do not care that the world has lost a person who gets his jollies from sleeping with little kids. I am sorry if I am a monster for not feeling sympathy, but I think you are the monster for feeling sorrow for a man who died that the world is probably a better place for him being gone.

With that said, I do feel sorry for the Jackson family and his friends. They would feel a loss and that is a horrible thing. My sympathy does go out to them.

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Music can come in all different forms and styles. Some have vocals, and others are just melodies. One thing that the music shouldn’t have in it however, is screaming. Seriously, I would love to know who came up with the idea , and just why they thought it was a good idea. Screaming has no musical skill or rhythm to it. It is just screaming. It is taking a thing like music, which takes talent to produce, and watering it down to something anyone can do. I mean I can scream so maybe I should start a screaming metal band called “The Hearts Of Aces” or something like that. Also the screaming offers nothing in a sense of music. Music is something that is supposed to sound good or a series of sounds put together to bring out an emotion in harmony. Screaming is very far from harmony.  I blogged earlier on the death of Rock and Roll, and I truly believe Screaming in Metal, is one of the contributers to the death of this style of music. I do believe however there is an exception to the horribleness of screaming. If it is done in a light or maybe very seldomly in a song, it can work. Again this is only sometimes though.

Here are examples of what I mean when I talk about Screaming. They all are in Youtube Form, they are not visually the example but the example is indeed the audio coming through your computer. So in other words it may not be the official music video. First, is a link to a band that goes by the name of Atretyu. The song is entitled Raging Bull. The screaming is just barley over the point of acceptable in my opinion, which is really sad as the rest of the song is actually really good. If they didn’t have the screaming I would download it on iTunes, but now I will go back and forth in my mind as it tries to figure out if it is really worth it. The second example is from a “band” called Otep. This song is quite pathetic as the whole song is literally screaming. How this is considered music, I do not know. The third and final example is what I consider acceptable screaming within a song. It is so small in the amount, it probably isn’t really considered screaming. It is off of the Minutes to Midnight album by Linkin Park with the song Bleed It Out. I actually recommend watching this as it is an awesome video, it isn’t the music video but it is a great mix from the film 300.

Example #1: ATREYU – ” Raging Bull”

Example #2: OTEP – ” Warhead”

Example #3 Linkin Park “Bleed It Out“

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I got a request for a post, and as I said before, I don’t mind people asking my opinion or asking me to make a post on a certain subject. So someone finally took me up on it. It isn’t exactly what I thought my first request might entail, however it still may be interest to some. I find the this a slightly straight forward and I doubt the one who requested it is going to get the bang for his buck sort to speak.

The Request: An Essay for History of Rock and Roll that entails two seperate song analysis’s.

First Portion is on the song “Janie’s Got a Gun” by Aerosmith

Lyrics:

Dum, dum, dum, honey what have you done
Dum, dum, dum, its the sound of my gun
Dum, dum, dum, honey what have you done
Dum, dum, dum, its the sound, its the sound…
Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah….

Janies got a gun
Janies got a gun
8Her whole worlds come undone
9From lookin straight at the sun
10What did her daddy do
11What did he put you through

They say when janie was arrested
They found him underneath a train
But man, he had it comin
Now that janies got a gun
She aint never gonna be the same

Janies got a gun
Janies got a gun
Her dog days just begun
Now everybody is on the run
Tell me now its untrue
What did her daddy do

He jacked the little bitty baby
The man has got to be insane
They say the spell that he was under
The lightnin and the thunder
Knew that someone had to stop the rain

Run away, run away from the pain
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Run away, run away from the pain
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Run away, run away, run, run away

Janies got a gun
Janies got a gun
Her dog days just begun
Now everybody is on the run
What did her daddy do
Its janies las i.o.u.

She had to take him down easy
And put a bullet in his brain
She said cause nobody believes me
The man was such a sleeze
He aint never gonna be the same

Run away, run away from the pain
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Run away, run away, run, run away
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Run away, run away, run, run away

Janies got a gun
Janies got a gun
Janies got a gun
Everybody is on the run

Janies got a gun
Her dog days just begun
Now everybodys on the run (honey, honey whats your problem)
cause janies got a gun (tell me it aint right)
Janies got a gun (was it daddys cradle robbin)
Her dog days just begun (that made you scream at night)
Janies got a gun
Her dog days just begun
Now everybodys on the run
Janies got a gun

 

My Analysis:

Janie’s Got a Gun is a truly sad tale. The song was released in 1989 by the band Aerosmith on their album titled Pump. The song is obviously about a girl that had something bad done to her by her father, and the girl was so hurt by this that she picked up a gun and shot her father. This all can be proven by lyrical analysis of the song that will not only detail the father but Janie’s reasoning for killing her father as well.

Janie’s got a gun starts out with the fact she has a gun. No one at first knows why she had decided to do until the sixth line of the song. Before that all we get is someone, probably a witness, had heard a gunshot. The lyric in the second and third lines of the song goes: “its the sound of my gun,” and “honey what have you done.” Because of this it seems that possibly a family member. A lot of people outside of a family do not call another person honey. It could be Janie’s boyfriend. More times than not guys are the people who are infatuated with guns. Since Janie is called honey it must mean that the person who saw her do this is indeed a boyfriend or a male family member of some sort. Later on the song, as well as the title of the title, establishes the fact that Janie indeed does have a gun. She had killed her father probably for rape. In the song if one were to look at the lines eight thru eleven one would see the father actually raped his daughter Jeanie and she was pushed over the edge. The song goes: “Her whole worlds come undone. From lookin straight at the sun. What did her daddy do? What did he put you through?” These lines clearly show that he had raped her. She is distraught over what happened and put her through a lot. Later on in the song it even states that
he had it coming” meaning the father did something really unforgivable, something as unforgivable as one staring into the sun. If someone stares into the sun it can totally burn out the retina and a person will go permanently blind.

Later on in the song there is even further lyrical evidence to the crime that the father had done to this daughter. On song line 41 the song states: “She said cause nobody believes me.” Many times when women report rape the have this misbelieve that no one would believe them. Also people back in the 80’s may believe that it was rape but not that the father was going to do it. Even in modern times people are shocked when the hear of incest rape of children. People are real sickos so much sometimes, that people can have a hard time believing that they would really do something. Especially more back then. Finally on lines 57 and 58 we get even more information on how more sick the father truly was. “Was it daddy’s cradle robbin, that made you scream at night?” With this revelation the listener finds that the girl was younger at the time of rape and she finally gave up with the pain. She couldn’t handle it, she had probably even told people and they didn’t believe her. Because they didn’t believe her, she decided to take justice into her own hands by executing her own father. It is either that or the girl is young at the time, probably around five or so and knows the real power that is behind a gun. This probably isn’t the case however as the song speaks of going to jail and one could make the argument that she being five in fact doesn’t know the full impact of the power of a gun. She was also able to put the shot right in the forehead of the father. Something a little girl would probably be very lucky to do. There is possibly a third interpretation. The girl that was raped could have been the murdering girl’s daughter. She being so distraught that her father would rape her daughter that she then took justice into her own hands.

In conclusion, the tale that is dipcted in the song by Aerosmith is one of incest and a vile act of rape. We aren’t really sure who was raped or when only that the father probably raped a family member and no one believed the truth. So after that either the mother of the raped little girl, the grown up girl who was raped, or the girl who had just recently been raped, took the law into her own hands. She shot her father in the head and killed him. Sometimes people can’t get justice the right way, and the person who gets away with it, indeed gets what is coming to them.

Song Analysis two is on “Midnight Rambler” by the Rolling Stones

Lyrics:

Did you hear about the midnight rambler
Everybody got to go
Did you hear about the midnight rambler
The one that shut the kitchen door
He dont give a hoot of warning
Wrapped up in a black cat cloak
He dont go in the light of the morning
He split the time the cockrel crows

Talkin about the midnight gambler
The one you never seen before
Talkin about the midnight gambler
Did you see him jump the garden wall
Sighin down the wind so sadly
Listen and youll hear him moan
Talkin about the midnight gambler
Everybody got to go

Did you hear about the midnight rambler
Well, honey, its no rock n roll show
Well, Im talkin about the midnight gambler
Yeah, everybody got to go

Well did ya hear about the midnight gambler?
Well honey its no rock-in roll show
Well Im talking about the midnight gambler
The one you never seen before

Oh dont do that, oh dont do that, oh dont do that
Dont you do that, dont you do that (repeat)
Oh dont do that, oh dont do that

Well you heard about the boston…
Its not one of those
Well, talkin bout the midnight…sh…
The one that closed the bedroom door
Im called the hit-and-run raper in anger
The knife-sharpened tippie-toe…
Or just the shoot em dead, brainbell jangler
You know, the one you never seen before

So if you ever meet the midnight rambler
Coming down your marble hall
Well hes pouncing like proud black panther
Well, you can say I, I told you so
Well, dont you listen for the midnight rambler
Play it easy, as you go
I’m gonna smash down all your plate glass windows
Put a fist, put a fist through your steel-plated door

Did you hear about the midnight rambler
Hell leave his footprints up and down your hall
And did you hear about the midnight gambler
And did you see me make my midnight call

And if you ever catch the midnight rambler
Ill steal your mistress from under your nose
Ill go easy with your cold fanged anger
Ill stick my knife right down your throat, baby
And it hurts!

My Analysis:

The Midnight Rambler is not only a dark song but also a take on a true life event. The song was released on the Album Let it Bleed in 1969. Earlier in the 1960s there was a mass murdering running loose in Boston called the Boston Strangler. This song by the Rolling Stones could be about this. Most of the lyrics speak of an act of a murderer and they speak of Boston. If one connects these clues about the 60’s, Boston, and even the details of the victims one will see that this song is not about any random guy running around at night, but Albert DeSalvo, or better known as the Boston Strangler.

To understand the song by the Rolling Stones, one must do a bit of research on the events surrounding this song. At first the song appears to be a simple intruder who is a rapist and a murderer. But once one starts the research on the sixties you learn about the terror that was around Boston during this time. A man named Albert DeSalvo went around for two whole years raping and strangling women in Boston. Since the song was released in 1969, five years after the killings took place it is easy to say that it could easily be about the Boston Strangler. In fact it was only a couple of years after the Boston Strangler was sentenced, that this song written in early 1969. Is it really a coincidence that the killings took place for two years and then two years after the sentencing was the song written? Besides the time frame of the killings and the date of recording after the events took place there is more evidence inside the lyrics.

Many of the songs lyrics, in a more general sense gives one the evidence of a rapist murderer. First the fact the song is titled Midnight Rambler. If a person is going to commit such horrible acts of rape and strangulation they are not going to be able to do it in broad daylight. This is also referenced when the song goes: “He don’t go in the light of the morning.” If it were the person screaming could probably be heard and the evil man would have been caught. Another point where the lyrics suggest the person ins a murderer is that he carries a knife: “Ill stick my knife right down your throat .” In many films and forms of entertainment where there is a mass murderer it is creepier and scarier to have the bad guy have a knife. The song also mentions a gun but it is just a small reference and probably doesn’t mean anything as the Stones never reference it again. Also the guy in the song is being sneaky. As the song progresses it appears the bad guy is breaking into a person’s house. There are times in the song where he silently jumps over a wall, goes down a hallway and closes the door and in the end he decides to jam the knife down the throat of the woman. All these clues bring up a very compelling argument, however, there is still more evidence that truly proves the song is about the Boston Strangler.

Robert DeSalvo took the twenty five lives of women in Boston. The song also references to a man portraying events such as rape in the song: “I’m called the hit-and-run raper in anger.” DeSalvo did rape several of his victims so this is a clue. They say he carried a knife around in the song, but the rape part is really significant. Also there are repeated and variations of a victim in the song saying this such as “oh no don’t do that” or “don’t you do that, don’t you do that.” If a woman was being raped she very well may say scream such things as the events of the killings are being unfolded. Another clue as to who this song is about is the fact that DeSalvo didn’t know any of his victims. He just picked them at random. The song references this as well as many times throughout it the lyrics say: “The one you never seen before.” Because he picked his victims at random means that they wouldn’t know DeSalvo. He would just be a stranger in their eyes. The Stones also reference one other clue inside the song. This big clue can be seen when they use the word Boston: “Well you heard about the Boston…It’s not one of those. Well, talkin bout the midnight…sh…” When a mass murderer of any kind is roaming a specific area generally if someone brings up the subject, the people don’t really want to talk about it. These lines of the song not only say that the guy is in Boston but also show the fear that had been struck in the people of Boston as they really don’t want to talk about because they are scared. Lastly according to Mick Jagger himself via Wikipedia Mick included the fact the he threw in bits and pieces of the confession into the song. So besides all the lyrical analysis of the song one can also get it straight from research which proves that the song is all about the Boston Strangler.

In Conclusion the song is a horrifying song about the tale of one of the victims of the Boston Strangler. All the lyrics act as evidence to this theory. The time frame of when the song was written and released, talks of how he snuck into places at night, the fear of the people to where they don’t want to talk about it, the mentioning of Boston in the song, and even from Mick Jagger himself. All the evidence is there that proves that Albert DeSalvo, the Boston Strangler, is the subject of this song of terror by the Rolling Stones.

I hope that was well worth it for the requester.

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I for one like music, but I have come to a realization. This is, that music is getting worse as the years progress. Know I was born in the mid 80’s and I grew up listening to 60’s rock until about high school where I divulged in the likes of Rap and Metal, then eventually just Alternative Metal and Hard Rock. But even those genre’s seem to be producing less and less good sounding music. Many things seem emo, which I suppose if you are emo, is a good thing. I am far from emo, and it takes me a long time to be able to purchase 15 to 20 songs on iTunes to make a playlist and CD for my vehicle to listen to. Now it could just be my tastes but it is frustrating none the less. The 60’s had great rock as well as diversity. They had everything from the likes of Mo Town to Psychedelic. The 70’s were ok, the 80’s barley ok, but a little weird to be honest, and then the 90’s were amazing! The 2000’s started out great with the likes of Linkin Park, Disturbed, etc., but then after those first few years and especially that last couple years, things have got mundane. Music just doesn’t sound good anymore and one can only listen to the same older songs over and over and over before they get tired of the song. What is the world coming to?! Whose with me on this?

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