Chip Away Boy
This is a great song for the working man by Frank Black:
It reminds me of programming, which is my work, and probably most every other kind of work. Try to get your hands on it, from the “Black Letter Days” album. Limewire it or something.
Also on that album is “Cold Heart of Stone” which is so Rolling Stones, it’s uncanny. Not only does it borrow from “Heart of Stone” (which is a cliche anyhow), but when “winter blows through [Black's] coat, chilly and cold” he’s brazenly channeling Mick Jagger singing “Angie”. And it’s great.
on October 30th, 2006 at 9:01 pm
I hope your life is not an I-work-so-hard / break-up song. Good lyricists can put you in their place, but you also have to write your own lyrics.
What was the most recent of the many songs you have written?
on October 31st, 2006 at 8:41 am
You’re so vane… I don’t remember who wrote that song, but I should.
My previous comment was inspired by a piece of notebook paper I came across in Marcus’ studio, something about wishing “she” would say goodbye and go away.
I took it personally. I thought it was a new song. Marcus pointed out that he could have written it anytime about anyone. He doesn’t even remember it.
I’m SO vane.
on October 31st, 2006 at 11:27 am
Carly Simon, I believe, wrote and sang “You’re So Vain.”
Frank Black is the man.