Many great songs would not be able to exist today.
1) Miss You (Rolling Stores) - Part where Mick talks about the Puerto Rican Girls who are just dying to meet you
2) Kashmir (Led Zeppelin) - Would get canceled for cultural appropriation
3) Money for Nothing (Dire Straits) - The little f****t with the earing and the makeup; it's import to note he was quoting a guy he overheard in Best Buy
Knopfler never said it was a Best Buy -- only that it was an appliance store.
That album (G 'N' R Lies). Used to Love Her is also a trip. But that gave us Patience, and I would recommend the Chris Cornell cover of that and Nothing Compares 2 U if you want a good cry.
To the fella that mentioned Zappa, a lot of his catalogue would come under fire. But classics like Crew Slut, Bobby Brown and Why Does it Hurt When I Pee? can handle anything
Also, let's toss Ween into the conversation. L.M.L.Y.P. is like a lo-fi indie white male WAPS, you have You F***** Up, Common B**** and that's just the first album. You have medically conscious classics like Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down), the HIV Song, and Put the Coke on my D***.
It's rather funny that Lil John is considered a popular family friendly celebrity in Las Vegas today given most of his music from the 2000's would have easily gotten him cancelled forever had it been released today, especially the album Crunk Juice.
Correct. In fact, Best Buy barely existed when that song was written.
Do you think it was the guitar riff, the lyrics, the MTV reference and the newness of that media or the tsunami confluence of them all?
You're asking what made the song such a hit, and deservedly so?
I think, yeah, the confluence of all of the above.
But he was just a great musician, phenomenol technique, and a good sense of how to adapt relatively simple song structures into impecable arrangements featuring some astounding guitar that would underneath the lines and then surface in between the vocals.
I mean, look at a hit like "Sultans of Swing". It was a mega-hit, too, and it wasn't about anything monolithic like MTV, and I think it kind of peaked before the days of MTV, so it isn't the reference. It was just about a band - mundane stuff. And for Chst sake, a song like "Romeo and Juliet" - how tired is that, yet he makes a very fresh and touching ode of it!
The guy was a master, and he could write great songs.
Not just today, but there's a good reason very few radio and digital streaming stations ever play that song at all. Benny's been getting aired out for the song's statutory rapey theme for the last couple decades.
This is what I was trying to remember. That song wouldn't be released today not because of statutoriness, it wouldn't even get that far. It was made with so much cocaine that Benny would have OD'ed on Fentanyl during recording.
Steely Dan has been touched but have to also call out Hey Nineteen. Steely Dan are named after a steam-powered dildo in Burroughs' Naked Lunch. Skunk Baxter has been a DoD consultant on missile defense - his neighbor was DoD and he broke their wargame acting as a rogue Middle East state introducing some kind of bacteria. The Dan pairs well with Jon Bois videos. RIP Walter Becker, and you too Neil Peart titans of 70s strange