"Is Meat Loaf’s 'Bat Out of Hell' a love song, or does its cautionary motorcycle-crash conclusion make it a song of knowledge?"
Questioning Daniel J. Levitin's theory that there are 6 kinds of songs. The types are: songs of friendship, songs of joy, songs of comfort, songs of knowledge, religious songs and love songs.
What about songs of mockery, which is how I always heard "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance"?
Saturday, August 30, 2008
"Is the Mothers of Invention’s exuberant 'Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance' a song of joy or a song of comfort?"
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fashion,
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Frank Zappa,
hippies,
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music,
naked,
strange beliefs
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