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Track #4

 
Challenge me. Give me a song that’s “in my face”. Shock me. So much great music evokes this if it’s done right. If it’s done wrong, then it’s just shock value.  Try too hard and you become a caricature of yourself. Try too little and you’re a coward. Do it just right, you fucking rock.

At a friend’s house years ago, someone put on a Black Flag record. Not their biggest fan but what a sound, felt like we would get in trouble just for listening.  Someone even managed to jump on a kitchen chair and bust it (sorry Ms. P). Chaotic. Big.
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Bessie Smith was in your face.  And probably down your pants.

Jerry Lee Lewis

Bob Dylan. Quietly

Freddie Mercury

There’s a place for shockwaves in art. It never ceases to surprise me when it goes mainstream.  Remember when Public Enemy was on the radio/MTV? That was exciting. Chuck D in my face? I’ll listen.  Smart. Passion

James Brown standing on stage with shoe in-hand

REM’s Radio Free Europe

Iggy Pop perpetually shirtless and filterless

David Bowie

Jack White pushing instrumental envelopes. I love what he delivers

Beartooth trying to be in my face, but, honestly, I just can’t understand what they are saying. 

Lou Reed. Oh, shit, Lou Reed

Hop in the car with my kids. Comment on a top 40 song playing. “I like how those girls are chanting ‘I won’t take pills’”. I’m quickly corrected. “Mom, really?? They’re saying ‘I love cheap thrills!’”. Oh.


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