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A Syllogism
by Jordan
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This is the one-thousandth Bruce Springsteen cover I've posted on StG. The truth: this is a Bruce Springsteen cover blog. However, as Springsteen basically jacked everything he ever did from the work of Abraham Maslow, I think it's only fair to call a spade "a spade" and recognize that StG is, at its core, an Abraham Maslow appreciation page, or "fan-site". "Everybody needs a place to rest/everybody wants to have a home," sings Malin reciting Springsteen stealing from Maslow's seminal A Theory of Human Motivation. The only observation that Springsteen adds to Maslow's thoughts is that "everybody has a hungry heart" - a claim that is absurd on its face. Hearts aren't even the kind of thing that can be hungry. Anyway, ethical transgressions aside, the song's a heartbreaker and the force-of-nature distorted guitar-drum machine combo is like the game of baccarat: outmoded and potentially ruinous. What?! Recommended! [Buy] *** The Louvin Brothers - "In The Pines" A contradiction: Jilted, the Louvin Brothers leave their home in Tennessee and move in among the pines, where it is both pitch black and quite cold. This is, of course, a babyish response to broken-heartedness. Louvin Brothers: (stomping feet) Fine! you don't love us anymore?! Then we're going to live in the pines! "Little Girl": C'mon guys, that's stupid. We can still be friends. Louvin Brothers: (lying on their stomachs, flailing) No no no no no! Yet, the occasional mandolin flourishes, and the astounding eight-bar electric guitar solo display such emotional maturity and subtlety that it forces one to question the very foundations of classical mathematics: on what grounds do we believe the law of the excluded middle and the law of noncontradiction? Recommended! [Buy] Posted by Jordan at June 14, 2006 1:44 AMComments
The link for Jesse Malin - "Hungry Heart" is broken. Posted by czarfred at June 14, 2006 2:09 AMFixed. Posted by Jordan at June 14, 2006 2:27 AMThat was the first Louvin Brothers track I ever heard. Neko Case played it on a CBC radio show several years ago, and I fell in love with it. Not too much later, I bought Tragic Songs of Life, and it remained a fave until I heard them make a reference to "darkies" in the song "Kentucky". As a black person, that was, well...kinda heart-breaking. I give 'em props for their angelic harmonies, but they kinda left a bad taste in my mouth there, y'know? Posted by Al aka El Negro Magnifico at June 14, 2006 3:07 AMIf If
and Therefore, yes, the heart can be starving. Try as I might, no amount of yogic meditation has rid me of desire yet. That's where the music comes in. When it's working. Posted by lisa at June 14, 2006 4:10 AMLisa, i don't know if we've told you yet, but you are totally winning our Best New Commenter of the Month award. (the prize: our thanks.) Posted by Sean at June 14, 2006 5:06 AMThere's a really great band called DeYarmond Edison in Raleigh, NC (my neck of the woods) that's been doing a version of this song at their shows lately. I don't think they have it online anywhere, but it's pretty hot. Posted by spookyjon at June 14, 2006 4:49 PMThanks for this cover, first noise was "medium" but after few more words I enterred this song again and again..Bruce´s version is not so lazy but now I like this one pretty much ´cause I feel my own heart just hungry....Tx:) Posted by Petr at June 15, 2006 6:10 AMy'all know that's a leadbelly song right? i guess they wrote their own verses, but the refrain is totally straight out of leadbelly's "where did you sleep last night". if you already knew this and i'm just being a redundant ass, then i sincerely apologize. Posted by devin at June 15, 2006 12:18 PMleadbelly did a version of it, as did the louvin brothers, as did any number of other people, but it's a traditional song. kurdt has misled you again, although the leadbelly version is plenty different enough to count as its own song. Posted by steve at June 18, 2006 4:14 PMPost a comment |
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Sean Michaels lives in Montreal, where he is writing a novel. His work also occasionally appears at McSweeney's. Follow him on Twitter or reach him here.
Dan Beirne is an actor and writer living in Montreal. He writes fiction fiction fiction on here. It may feel true, but it is never True. He is most proud of his most recent project The Bitter End. Email him here Jordan Himelfarb lives in Toronto, where he is editor in chief of The Mark. Jordan's posts appear at Said the Gramophone only on the last Wednesday of every month. Email him here. Site design and header typography by Neale McDavitt-Van Fleet. The header graphic is randomized: this one is by . 
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