Fra Kristoffer har jeg modtaget et link til nedenstående video med Liverpool-bandet Circa Waves. Det er en omgang forfriskende poppet pub- eller garagerock, som britterne er så gode til at lave, når de ellers tager sig sammen. Et spændende nyt band. Spændende at høre, hvad de kan få ud af større formater end singlen…
“20th Century Man”
This is the age of machinery,
A mechanical nightmare,
The wonderful world of technology,
Napalm, hydrogen bombs, biological warfare,
This is the twentieth century,
But too much aggravation
It’s the age of insanity,
What has become of the green pleasant fields of Jerusalem.
Ain’t got no ambition, I’m just disillusioned
I’m a twentieth century man but I don’t wanna be here.
My mama said she can’t understand me
She can’t see my motivation
Just give me some security,
I’m a paranoid schizoid product of the twentieth century.
You keep all your smart modern writers
Give me William Shakespeare
You keep all your smart modern painters
I’ll take Rembrandt, Titian, Da Vinci and Gainsborough,
Girl we gotta get out of here
We gotta find a solution
I’m a twentieth century man but I don’t want to die here.
I was born in a welfare state
Ruled by bureaucracy
Controlled by civil servants
And people dressed in grey
Got no privacy, got no liberty
Cos the twentieth century people
Took it all away from me.
Don’t wanna get myself shot down
By some trigger happy policeman,
Gotta keep a hold on my sanity
I’m a twentieth century man but I don’t wanna die here.
My mama says she can’t understand me
She can’t see my motivation
Ain’t got no security,
I’m a twentieth century man but I don’t wanna be here.
This is the twentieth century
But too much aggravation
This is the edge of insanity
I’m a twentieth century man but I don’t wanna be here.
Der er ikke sket så meget siden vi forlod det tyvende århundrede i forhold til Ray Davies gode tekst fra Muswell Hillbillies. I hvert fald ikke til det bedre. Læs blot denne artikel om tingenes tilstand i Storbritannien: Wellcome to Britain in the age of insecurity.
Dolly Parton er så amerikansk, at det næsten gør ondt. Lige så smagløs, hun tager sig ud i det ydre, lige så smagfuld er hun, når hun søger ind til den musikalske kerne i sit repertoire. Som i sangen “Home” fra hendes 42. album Blue Smoke. Her mødes vellydende amerikansk pop med blue grass, country og rock. Så ubesværet, som kun Parton kan gøre det.
