Hey guys!
I hope you're fine these days.
First of all I need to advice you a quite awesome song performed by one of my favourite bands called "Social Distortion". If you don't know this band but you are totally in love with punk music or country or rockabilly, you should listen to at least one of their songs! One of their songs I'm addicted these days is called "Dear Lover" (maybe you remember my last 10-minutes-poem with the same title). Now you know where my title comes from ;D.
I'm really into that song because I totally love the voice of Mike Ness. It's like when you feel pain anywhere inside your body, then his voice and the whole Social Distortion sound is like a fishing rod grabbing the fish called "pain" and then the band pulls this pain out of you. Okay at this moment I don't have any other description but this is my metaphor for that, what Social Distortion is doing with me xD... sounds weird but anyway! Just give it a shot and hopefully you will understand. Maybe that is the reason for the title of their latest album "Hard Times And Nursery Rhymes". I mean nursery rhymes are songs for children... at least I thought so. Nursery rhymes are meant to calm children... and so the songs calm me.
In the song "Dear Lover" (album: White Light White Heat White Trash, 1996) Ness' voice gets even higher a bit and then it sounds so gently and fragile. Nevertheless it's not right to say, that this song is a fucked up sob stuff. Nope, it isn't! I even can't understand why some people in the past critizised the band for writing lovesongs. I mean why not?
Soo.. this was about my passion for Social Distortion. I'm pondering to get the biography of Mike Ness. I guess he had an weird and interesting life and maybe still has.
Unfortunately I can't find any video on youtube to show you "Dear Lover" but I advice you to listen at least to "Machine Gun Blues". They made a nice video. The setting takes place back in the 1930s or so. Nice cars, nice men and nice women and ugly weapons!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs-s0_yGpyg