"People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Richardson as "the day the music died."Īccording to The Guardian, Don McLean said in a 2015 interview that the lyrics are intentionally ambiguous. They tend to forget that the lyrically dense song references the 1959 plane crash that killed legends Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. The original release of the song clocks in at more than eight minutes long but, generally, people remember the song's rhyming chorus, which bids farewell to "Miss American Pie." The iconic and undeniably catchy 1971 song "American Pie" is known to inspire group sing-alongs at bonfires and karaoke bars, but lyrically it's rather dark. 'Coming over you' is just really what it reports to be: 'She comes around, and she goes down on me.' It's not cryptic." We can't even believe it got onto the radio. I wrote a song about drugs and f-ing, and I'm pretty much about clean living on the road. In a 1998 interview with Rolling Stone, Jenkins added, "Yeah, it's funny. I don't think the song should be so blatant that I have to come out and say 'couples who take speed tend to break up, so don't do it.'" "I think people hear 'Semi-Charmed Life' as a happy summertime jam. It's really funny that people play it on the radio," Third Eye Blind singer Stephan Jenkins told Billboard magazine in 1997. "It's a dirty, filthy song about snorting speed and getting blow jobs. It's pretty much a fact that "Semi-Charmed Life" is the best karaoke song of all time with its frantic tempo that can leave you breathlessly trying to keep up with the lyrics.īut you may not realize that song's pace actually reflects its narrative about the brutal cycle of highs and lows that accompany a drug addiction. Which is pretty neat."Semi-Charmed Life" is by Third Eye Blind.
If Coheed And Cambria’s new two-part concept album wasn’t enough tenor vocals and proggy post-hardcore, might I recommend Vancouver’s Incura? Their Incura EP is theatrical heavy rock not far removed from Coheed and Closure In Moscow, with a knack for driving, emotional songs (often in 6/8 time) and a charismatic vocal presence that’s just a little different in each song. Listen “I’m Here Waiting” ( here) “I’d Give Anything” ( here) “Who You Are” ( here) “Turning Blue” ( here) On a playlist with: Coheed And Cambria, Closure In Moscow, Rishloo And drummer Marco Minneman was a damn good choice.
There are the obvious King Crimson-isms, but also nods at early 2000’s Porcupine Tree ( Stupid Dream, Lightbulb Sun), and the dark air of mystery is very much his own. Now on The Raven, he continues in that classic progressive direction, but still feels fresh and relevant. On 2011’s acclaimed Grace For Drowning, Wilson ventured further away from Porcupine Tree’s modern progressive metal direction and closer to the 70’s retro prog/jazz fusion of many of his heroes’ work. His band Porcupine Tree will always be my favorite of his projects, but it’s incredible that Wilson can write three ambitious solo works that don’t resemble each other. Steven Wilson as a solo artist is one of the most interesting creative forces in alternative and progressive music. If a great clean section gets you sprung, check this out ASAP. The dark metal veterans (De Arma counts members of Fen and Armaggeda) strike a note of resignation with clean vocals and piercing emotional shrieks over a very desolate musical landscape. Lost, Alien & Forlorn is a fitting description alright - and this shoe-gazing black metal doesn’t disappoint. Listen “Behind These Filthy Panes” ( here) “Watching The Walls Come Down” ( here)Ĭall it depressive metal or dark metal (or a name as pretentious), but you can imagine from that description the chilly, lovelorn gloom created by De Arma. On a playlist with: Agalloch, Fen, Nahemah
Listen “The Immoralist” ( here) “The Motherfucker” ( here) On a playlist with: Today Is The Day, Converge, KEN Mode
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