[For this year’s Valentine’s series, I wanted to share a handful of recent songs I’ve loved. Share recent songs, albums, artists you love for a crowd-sourced weekend post with heart eyes!]
I’ll
confess that a year ago at this time I believed my childhood favorite rock band
Midnight
Oil had released their last new music, so the entirety of their awesome 2021 album Resist took me by very pleasant surprise. I love every one of that album’s
12 excellent songs, but would single out especially the second song, “The Barka-Darling River,”
which links lead singer Peter
Garrett’s frustrating time serving in the Australian Parliament to the climate
crisis and the need for real systemic change. Here are three lines that capture
this song’s scope and power:
The angry
and impassioned opening verse: “Standing in the house of the founding
fathers/It’s a house that’s not been well looked after/Now there’s a fatal flaw
in the mighty rafters/There’s a rule of law written by the cotton masters”
The
transition to the quietly mournful second half: “Who left the bag of idiots
open?/Who drank the bottle of bad ideas?/Who drew the last drop from the
bottom?/Good people, good people are forgotten”
And the
yearning for something else with which that mourning concludes: “Let’s shake
some truth out of the jar/Let’s kick the crooks out of the kitchen/We’ll tell
some stories at the bar/Good people, good people are forgotten”
Last song
I love tomorrow,
Ben
PS. What
songs or artists have you been lovin’ on recently?
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