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Rafferty's lyrics are a dismissive tale of a music industry cocktail party (the clowns and jokers would be all the music executives and hangers on), written and performed as a parody of Bob Dylan's style; the vocal impression, subject, and styling were so similar, listeners have wrongly attributed the song to Dylan since its release. [6] [7] [8 ...
"Jokerman" is a song by Bob Dylan that appeared as the opening track of his 1983 album Infidels. [3] [4] Recorded on April 14, 1983, [5] it was released as a single on June 1, 1984, featuring a live version of "Isis" from the film Renaldo and Clara as its B-side.
"Rebels" is a song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. It appeared on the 1985 album Southern Accents and was released as a single in the same year. Although it only reached #74 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart, it fared much better on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart, where it peaked at #5.
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The original lyrics are in twelve lines, which the Financial Times writer Dan Einac commented, make it "akin to a truncated sonnet". [19] The lyrics feature a conversation between a joker and a thief, whilst they ride towards a watchtower. [11] Scholar Timothy Hampton comments that the pair are "overwhelmed by circumstances". [20]
In 1961, 19-year-old Robert Allen Zimmerman dropped out of college in his native Minnesota, made a pilgrimage to New York City to meet his folk music idol Woody Guthrie, and decided to become, in ...
From annoying melodies and questionable lyrics to ear worms that permanently lodge themselves in your head, these are the Christmas songs we love to hate — including one inescapable tune that ...
The album is the first Joker's Card in the group's Dark Carnival mythology. The album's lyrics describe the Carnival of Carnage as a representation of the violence that occurs within the ghettos, which takes the form of a traveling carnival to enact the same brutality on the upper class.