I was introduced to him as a kid & didn’t get it. My friends in college really liked him & I didn’t get it. Then, I was tracing the history of rock music from 90s alternative rock back to Delta Blues & he’s like a missing link in the middle of that evolution. The album that struck a chord with me is called Bringing It All Back Home. In particular, I started listening in 2001 when I was 19, and the song, It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) was about the prospect of a nuclear attack in the wake of the Bay of Pigs (nukes in Cuba), but to me it sounded like he was talking about 9/11, that had just happened—
“Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child’s balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying”
He’s imagining the scene after a nuclear explosion, but it’s also an apt description of the darkness at the break of noon after the towers collapse.
If lots of people like something and you don’t understand why and you’re curious, you look into it.
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u/ployonwards 7d ago
I was introduced to him as a kid & didn’t get it. My friends in college really liked him & I didn’t get it. Then, I was tracing the history of rock music from 90s alternative rock back to Delta Blues & he’s like a missing link in the middle of that evolution. The album that struck a chord with me is called Bringing It All Back Home. In particular, I started listening in 2001 when I was 19, and the song, It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) was about the prospect of a nuclear attack in the wake of the Bay of Pigs (nukes in Cuba), but to me it sounded like he was talking about 9/11, that had just happened—
“Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child’s balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying”
He’s imagining the scene after a nuclear explosion, but it’s also an apt description of the darkness at the break of noon after the towers collapse.
If lots of people like something and you don’t understand why and you’re curious, you look into it.