18th — 24th July 2020
I remember exactly where I was when I heard Tracey Chapman’s first hit. It was my final honours year at Sydney University and it was in the afternoon. I was downstairs in the Anderson Stuart building working on dissecting some chic motorneurons in a tissue culture cabinet. I had the radio playing and “Fast Cars” …
Staying on Shania’s money theme, I wonder if she got the start of her Ka-ching song from this all time Pink Floyd classic?
“All we ever want is more, a lot more than we had before, so take me to the nearest store.” The character of the modern age. The beginning of this song always sounds like the same sound effect sequence used in Pink Floyd’s “Money”. Now the odd thing about her album entitled “Up” is Shania …
A song that captures a common scenario for many teenage and twenty something blokes.
So is this song about Chad Kroeger from Nickelback (see yesterday’s post)? Probably not!
Never really understood why so many people hate Nickelback. I like this tune again because its lyrics tell a story. This film clip is clearly captured at one of their concerts by one of their fans on a low quality mobile phone. Yet what is impressive is how close their sound is to the original …
So this is another song from my University days. The mid-80s was a great time for pop/rock music in my opinion. Correction just googled and it was actually 83 so I was actually still at school. Time goes too quickly!
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