{"id":8448,"date":"2013-10-05T17:42:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T17:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/05\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-a-couple-of-suicide-songs\/"},"modified":"2013-10-05T17:42:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T17:42:05","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-a-couple-of-suicide-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/05\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-a-couple-of-suicide-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: A Couple of Suicide Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tastes in music are pretty much generationally-rooted. Just to yank (tug?) Dale Tuggy's chain a bit, I said to him while we were rooming together in Prague, that the heavy metal stuff he likes is "music to pound out fenders by," a phrase that Edward Abbey (1927-1989) applied to all rock music.  I claimed heavy metal  has little by way of melody.  Tuggy, who is 20 years younger than me, demurred and pointed me to some songs one of which is Metallica's Fade to Black<\/a>.  The song was released in '84 when Tuggy was 14, so maybe it had the sort of impact on him that Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone<\/a>  (1965) had on me when I was 15.  <\/span><\/p>\n

"Fade to Black" features a very nice acoustic guitar intro and does have a melody, but can it hold a candle melody- or lyric-wise to Tom Wait's suicide song, Shiver Me Timbers<\/a>?  You decide.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tastes in music are pretty much generationally-rooted. Just to yank (tug?) Dale Tuggy's chain a bit, I said to him while we were rooming together in Prague, that the heavy metal stuff he likes is "music to pound out fenders by," a phrase that Edward Abbey (1927-1989) applied to all rock music.  I claimed heavy … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: A Couple of Suicide Songs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}