Worst Song I Have To Write A Review On (writing class lolz)

facilitator made us sing along to them too. ;_;

I can think of plenty of things to say about "Take It Easy," all of which include the sentence, "Jackson Browne and Glenn Frey deserve waterboarding."

Alfred, you are wrong about Jackson Browne

but he's right about glenn frey!

350 words ain't all that much

I would have pardoned Browne so he can write "Running on Empty" and "Lawyers in Love."

i fucking hate the eagles

there, i said it.

don't get me wrong, they're all very talented musicians. i just can't stand their music. i find it tinny, pretentious, and downright limp-wristed (especially henley).

in fact, i hate country rock in general. another irritating group for me is the nitty gritty dirt band.

the reason i'm venting is because i'm in a country band and all my bandmates love the eagles. they compare everything to them. and i don't have the heart to tell these guys i think the eagles fucking blow. worst part is, now they've insisted we do "take it easy." and i'm the lead singer. which means i have to be fucking glenn frey. at least it's not henley, but i'm used to singing waylon jennings, merle haggard, johnny cash, get my drift? i'm a fucking BARITONE singer, and all the members of the eagles have NO BALLS. every night after practice my voice is shot. it just doesn't GO there, goddammit!

thanks for listening

Word Count: 168.

giving credit where credit is due.

You get a D for non-capitalization

capitalizing suggests you care.

ha

xposts

350 words isn't much true except my reaction to all of these can be summed up in one "No".

Roz you get an F for attitude. 350 words is like one page.

I stop reading anything if the sentence starts with "Don't get me wrong."

totally unfamiliar with two of the options here, and yet I am certain that the correct answer is "Take It Easy"

Danny Gokey - My Best Days Are Ahead of Me

You can't come up with 300 words of invective on this? Really?

xp: you should REALLY hear Danny Gokey before you say things like that, dude is basically a musical antichrist in all the wrong ways

i'm really just procrastinating. and wishing my tutor, a sweetheart otherwise, wasn't the type to say things like "pay attention to the lyrics of these songs - i think you'll find they're very... meaningful".

take it easy/take it easy. don't let the sound of yr own wheels make you crazy.

deep

Roz: lighten up while you still can.

don't even try to understand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMoS2tb4R7s

srsly, this song is such a massive dick

I dig his glasses though.

the Womack song is the best of the bunch, honestly.

Hello Darkness, my old friend.

"Sounds Of Silence." Connect producer Tom Wilson's post-production grafting-on of electric instruments to his past work with Sun Ra and Cecil Taylor; and his future work with the Velvet Underground.

this teacher seems like a pretty big sad sack for choosing these songs
why can't you choose your own song?!

use of negative space in SOS arrangement/production vis a vis lyrics obvious starting point

I hate writing, and I just wrote this in approx. 20 minutes (366 words):

Dear Danny Gokey,

On your song, "My Best Days Are Ahead Of Me", you waste three precious minutes of my time to whine empty platitudes at me about how awesome it is that you are getting older. Every line seems to thrill at the prospect of using your "American Idol" experience to insinuate your way into households that only a year ago did not even know you were alive. The breathless way in which you eagerly chatter about absolutely nothing in the brightest, most chipper manner possible while assaulting poor unsuspecting listeners with a barrage of banal guitar riffs too pedestrian for Don McLean and just enough slide guitar to further tarnish the legacy of country music reinforces two overriding things in a tortured, unfortunate listener:

- As someone who was a former youth minister, you have a penchant for delivering entirely content-free messages that should make any halfway thoughtful or introspective person worry tremendously about the spiritual well-being of the children who were under your charge.

- While, as you so fondly tell us over and over, your best days may be in front of you, our best days are most certainly behind us, because they are all of the days of our lives that occurred before we heard your awful, awful song.

Presumably this tepid offering is a harbinger of an album full of similarly vapid platitudes evoking lazy images of comfort and home with all of the originality of Transformers movie, the passion of a wet paper bag and the musical introspection of a raucous rendition of "The Farmer in the Dell". Before inflicting this upon a public that, despite its flaws, never did anything to deserve this (aside, possibly, from slavery), I feel it is my duty as someone among the first to be subjected to your musical stylings to give you desperately-needed feedback; just stop. Go home to your family, who loves you no matter what, and play your wholly anonymous, embarrassing songs for them. They will give you the positive feedback you so desperately crave. The rest of us just don't like you enough not to hurt your feelings.

Sincerely, someone about to gouge out their ears with blunt sticks.

Call SOS hauntological, spend 300 words defining hauntology.

A++? xpost

i'd change that sentence with the "just stop" after the semi colon to a single sentence. it would be a fragment, but it would have a big impact.

A+

I would edit that so I didn't use "feedback" in quick succession like that, also I would fix the pronoun at the end but all in all that is essentially what I would hand in for this assignment, teacher's feelings on the songs be damned.

in fact, I am posting that on my neglected blog

You could write about the "Takin' It Easy" statue in Winslow Arizona and get all meta about how a song about a place changed that place and now the place described in the song is no longer the same place, and how the Eagles Americana affected Americana itself like that statue, how everything has become a theme park version of itself
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/TakeItEasy_WinslowAZ.jpg

On the street corner there, is that a Baudrillardian simulacrum?

won't front, I f/w the s&g track

dan it's a pedal steel not a slide guitar but otherwise a++ fine work

honestly anybody who votes for take it easy over that danny gokey abortion needs to make peace w/the past and join us here in the present

3 okay-to-great songs here. Voting for Gokey.

Confession time: I was a 12y/o Simon & Garfunkel fan (obv several decades late), and while I wouldn't describe myself as one now I still feel kind of sad that even one of their more ponderous and trite numbers makes the same list as that Gokey song

ooh, thanks for that Sean; I fixed that on my blog (lol)
http://jjjusten.blogspot.com/2010/03/quick-review-of-danny-gokeys-my-best.html

i finished them in about 25 minutes each but jesus I will die happy if i never hear any of these again. "Sound of Silence" excepted, maybe... I don't hate S&G or this song, just find it pretty dull.

Gokey track totally worst of the lot.

You could write about the "Takin' It Easy" statue in Winslow Arizona and get all meta about how a song about a place changed that place and now the place described in the song is no longer the same place, and how the Eagles Americana affected Americana itself like that statue, how everything has become a theme park version of itself

If I was a teacher and I got this I would just assume w/o checking that it was ripped from a Delilo book.

wait what

facilitator made us sing along to them too. ;_;

jesus christ are you in prison or something?

I would have pardoned Browne so he can write "Running on Empty" and "Lawyers in Love."

these are some songs you should go get Alfred:

"My Opening Farewell"
"The Lonely Child"
"Song for Adam"
"For a Dancer"
"Call It A Loan"
"Boulevard" (I would frankly be surprised if you didn't like this one already tho)
"Shape of a Heart" (live version from solo acoustic vol. 2 is especially nice)
"For Everyman"

I will not rest until you love Jackson Browne like I do

no just being taught by an aging grammarian who seems to think she's teaching 8-year-olds and that Danny Gokey is "cool". xpost

I have a live version of 'Cocaine' which I love
(maybe it's famous, I dunno)
and JB keeps dropping little asides between lines
(hey, a bit like this one)
mundane details about people he knows
(and you don't)
one of whom is Glenn Frey
('Take It Easy', in a walk)

I hope you submitted something like this:

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350 words, super easy.

never even heard of danny gokey!

he speaks very highly of you :(

"Boulevard" (I would frankly be surprised if you didn't like this one already tho)
"Shape of a Heart" (live version from solo acoustic vol. 2 is especially nice)

"Boulevard" is a weird one; I can't figure out his attitude towards the punk kids.

"In the Shape of a Heart" I've gone on record as adoring.

<3 u dan

I have to hand it to John D for his unswerving devotion to Jackson Browne - and on the strength of "Somebody's Baby" in Fast Times At Ridgemont High alone I believe him

^^^yes

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18 ppl hadn't heard that Gokey mess