Thursday, August 8, 2024

The Rebel Black Dot Song o' the Day: SKAugust

Slow Gherkin, "Shed Some Skin" from Shed Some Skin (Rude Boy Mike Papa Whiskey)

Skammentary: "Shed Some Skin" is a very wordy song, including a reference to "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" & the longstanding definition of the word "gay." But what I find so compelling about it is the driving rhythm of the electric organ & the blaring horns.
"I saw what's wrong but I didn't see how,
I saw, I saw we're all grown up now…

"And my breathing constricts,
I feel the walls closing in,
Could it be that finally we're all
Shedding some skin?"

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