50 Things I love about Rock - Repeat

Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 21:47:28 -0400
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It is Summer*, a time of barbecues, baseball, summer concerts, warm nights
and most of all, television repeats. So in the spirit of summer repeats, and
also because I really liked this, I'm doing a repeat post, 5 at a time - 50
Things I love about Rock and Roll - the expanded "Is he Still Talking
Version"...
*on this side of the equator, I was called on that by some Down Under a few
days ago.
50. It's always changing. Rhythm and blues had a baby - and they called it
rock and roll. But rock and roll has gone from jump blues to boogie-woogie
to rockabilly to the British Invasion to blues rock to art rock to glam rock
to disco to punk to rap and new wave to grunge to whatever. It's never the
same, and yet it's still all descended from the Blues, R&B, Jazz and
Country.
49. Pogoing - or the hand jive, swaying, or whatever other stupid move the
music makes you do. Let's face it, we all probably look pretty silly when
you're all jumping up and down during a Bruce song - but silly is good,
because silly is fun.
48. WWWWWWWWWWham Bam Thank You Ma'am - for every line that got you to
scream out at the top of your lungs - whether it's "I'm gonna find one
place, I'm gonna spit in the face of these Badlands", or Bowie's line, or
"Won't get fooled again", it's all about expressing yourself, expressing an
emotion, whether it's defiance, rebellion, despair, or, in Bowie's case,
exulting in getting laid.
47. Elvis movies - so dumb they were cool. Jailhouse Rock, with the first
rock video, before they even invented videotape. kid Creole. Blue Hawaii.
Viva Las Vegas. Sure, they all had pretty much the same plot: Elvis is cool,
Elvis is a rebel, Elvis meets a pretty girl, Elvis sings, Elvis kisses
pretty girl. But it was Elvis, and above it all, through all the years,
Elvis WAS, in fact, cool...
46. Love Songs - Wonderful Tonight, If I Should Fall Behind, and even all
those corny ballads that every hard rock/hair band think they have to make
just once. (e.g., Every Rose Has its Thorn). I fell in love (as a kid) to
Wonderful Tonight, I got married as an adult, sort of) to If I Should Fall
Behind and Bruce's version of Can't Help Falling In Love. As kids, we
slowed dance to a whole bunch of others - and what a delightful, scary,
horny opportunity it was to be able to rub 14 year old body parts together
then - and wonderful it is to do the same (with older parts) now...