This week, it’s perhaps two of the most famous bands in the world, from the respective decades with which they’re most associated. Like last week, the A-side this time is an album track while the B-side is a very well-known single (plus an actual B-
Two songs here from bands often grouped under the nebulous and occasionally suspect label of “classic rock.” Two bands, moreover and indeed relatedly, who are not typically known for extremes of emotion, or even particularly for love songs (with a few exceptions). The A-side is an album track, and
Unfortunately, I have to admit from the off that a lot of the songs in this project will, reflecting my music taste, lean white and male. There are a lot of reasons for this, some of which I’m capable of rectifying, others less so. But for that very reason,
The love song is the basic unit of the song, we might even say the default form. In the same way that the novel has become the dominant prose form since the 18th century, the love song dominates the airwaves. Listen to a given radio station for an hour, regardless