I'm astonished that the bands we grew up with don't write songs that reflect the pressing concerns in our current lives: not losing our girl/boyfriends but losing the keys, having creaky joints, forgetting the stupid password to something, having too many browser tabs open.
I want to hear a new Social Distortion song about having to get your knee operated on because you tore the meniscus in a pickup game thinking you could still move like you were in your twenties.
I want to hear a Fugazi song about being pissed off because your kid got up late for school and you had to drive them and so you won’t get to answering an email until 930.
Sting, Synchronicity 3: “ooooh ooooh oooh, Another suburban family morning, my daughter got up super late again, I’ve got to drive her lazy ass all the way to her high school, I won’t get to my work emails til 10…”
Sting, Synchronicity 3: “ooooh ooooh oooh, Another suburban family morning, my daughter got up super late again, I’ve got to drive her lazy ass all the way to her high school, I won’t get to my work emails til 10…”
Instead of “answering machine,” The Replacements could do a song about those annoying calls/ voicemails you get from someone in New Jersey offering to renew the nonexistent warranty on your car.
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