Now Listening To (The Resurrection), Musical Musings Options

[treydog]

The Saturday Late Night Random 10:

Funplex- The B-52s

In Memory of Elizabeth Reed- Allman Brothers

The Way- Fastball

Daydream Believer- The Monkees

I Ain't Superstitious- Howlin' Wolf

What I Like About You- The Romantics

Skating- Vince Guaraldi (A Charlie Brown Christmas)

A Sight for Sore Eyes- Tom Waits

Pennsylvania Six-Five Thousand- Glenn Miller

Style- U.R. Penetrators

As usual, it really is a random mix, esp. with the Vince Guaraldi in there...

[bbqplatypus]

I love Steve Winwood. Seriously, how could anyone NOT love Steve Winwood?



On a related note, I find the title song to be really interesting - not just because it's a great song, but because of the symbolic figure and pagan tradition it refers to. "John Barleycorn" is the personification of grain (and the harvesting of same), and was himself derived from the ancient pagan tradition of the "sacred king," who would be appointed as lord of the harvest and, in some traditions, was ritually sacrificed. It was actually thought to be really common in pre-Mycenaean Greece. Now, not all such traditions stipulated that the sacred king be killed, but there's something about a male sacrificial symbol of fertility that I find morbidly fascinating.

This post has been edited by bbqplatypus: Sep 19 2008, 01:31 AM