I first heard this song in the fall of 2011, during a time in which large parts of my life beyond my control seemed to be unravelling and I felt like I was in danger of losing friends by complaining too much about that. I remember immediately replaying this track about six times, and by the final play I was belting out the lyrics along with Chrissie and felt better than I had in weeks, maybe months. Its a weird song, and arguably skirts the line between positive support of depression and mocking it; but I think the utterly upbeat, You can do it! quality of the vocals lets you know where it really stands; while the surface message encouraged silence on my part, I mostly found that it inspired confidence that I could stop my own sobbing, and that my friendships would endure. This sort of double meaning and tongue-in-cheek humor is at the basis for a lot of punk music; I was impressed that this song was released in 1979, and then was absolutely flabbergasted to discover that it was originally performed by the Kinks in a surprisingly similar style... in 1964. Can you imagine this playing along with, say, I Want To Hold Your Hand or Do Wah Diddy Diddy?
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 04:11:32 +0000
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