What is it that moves us when we hear that song? The one we love the one with the memories? Scientist have recently been trying to come up with the answers and they have uncovered some interesting facts. A lot of the up to date research and findings can be found in Daniel Levitin's book "This is your Brain on Music. " If you are curious about what the inner workings are going on while you have the headphones on to Tony G's  jazz show, this is the book for you.

I personally for years just like to say wow that was awesome. Maybe studying music a little too close loses some of its attraction for you. Thats one of the reasons songs exist to be ambuigious.  Thats why some songs become rallying cries when they are really protest songs. 

 The best example of this is Springsteen's Born in the USA. This rebel with a casue anthem become a hit and then was featured in advertisments and even political campaigns and lyrically couldn't have been more un-American. With lines like "Nowhere to run, nowhere to go,"  this mini protest song became popular for its reprtitive unmistakebly chorus.  Who cares what it is about. Well i do.

 I like to find out what artist are trying to say. i like to know what the true meaning was behind a song and sometimes i like to make them up. But lyrics to me carry a lot of weight. Its the books i like to listen too. Nothing turns me on like a cocnept album. I consider epics like Tommy, Quadraophenia and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway to be masterpeices of music for the ages. And although the achieve tremendous popularity they rarely get mentioned in the patheon of high art.  That's ashame.

With this blog i will attempt to talk aboout the lyrics. The who the what are they meaning. Sometimes i'll cover old songs, old albums and sometimes it will be new or abscure.  If you like the words, hopefully you'll like this column.

Keep listening. 

Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go