It’s blank!

Needs to stick his trainers in the washing machine too.

Posted By: ToiletWallPoet

Posted By: ForThoseAboutToPostNah man! Landslide is about some fucked up kid on a bender rebelling against his religious TV preacher watching parents, Badlands is old west cosplay with Brian as the law about to get the drop on his woman, Rising Power is about a hard luck working man who gets mixed up with some heavily into S&M lady .., Yeah, none of it is exactly Down Payment Blues but there’s s sense of purpose.

... Rising Power? You're grasping. I think you're confusing a subject with a story. A story has distinct events and progression. A beginning, middle and end. Landslide is just some lines about a rebellious kid. Badlands is an extended double entendre between his dick and a gun. Kind of a retread (or better version, rather) of Guns For Hire. That's no more a story than Givin the Dog a Bone is "a story about getting head".

I didn’t say they were novels set to music. They just strike me as being more “about something” than the BIB lyrics even if it’s subtle. Let’s not take any of this too seriously. The lyrics sound cool when screamed by Brian and the tunes rock. Not sure anything more is necessary.

Actually, most of the BIB songs are “about something” too. I guess I just find the tunes on Flick more interesting in that respect.

All these years I thought it was “burn your saucy ass like the Fourth of July”.

Posted By: WarMachine73Toilet, that’s a Bon lyric.

Whatever you say, Jesse ;p

Posted By: ToiletWallPoet

... Rising Power? You're grasping. I think you're confusing a subject with a story. A story has distinct events and progression. A beginning, middle and end. Landslide is just some lines about a rebellious kid. Badlands is an extended double entendre between his dick and a gun. Kind of a retread (or better version, rather) of Guns For Hire. That's no more a story than Givin the Dog a Bone is "a story about getting head".

The above is a clearifying post. I always have trouble with the notion that a song is a "story" because the lyrics actually mean something. I know this is like swearing in the church in this forum (I don't know if you have that saying in English, but you get what I mean) but I don't think Bon wrote many a story either. People say he was a real story teller in his lyrics, but from the top of my head the only storys I can recall in his songs are Jailbreak (which is quite sketchy) and even though simple to say the least, Carry Me Home and The Jack. The others are clearly not stories, but all brilliant in their own right of course.

To me the problem with FOTS is the running order. Almost the entire first half of the album is quite "samey", consisting of tracks which plod along at a similar pace or plod slightly faster but sound very similar to the slower plodders. Which I find gives it something of a "downer" vibe.

It's not until the second half that you get a notable variation between tracks in terms of style and tempo, giving it the mood of a different album.

But with an altered running order spreading the "plodders" across the tracklist FOTS takes on a reinvigorated tone. For example:

1 Guns For Hire
2 This House Is On Fire
3 Landslide
4 Rising Power
5 Bedlam in Belgium
6 Nervous Shakedown
7 Flick Of the Switch
8 Badlands
9 Deep In The Hole
10 Brain Shake

Anyway, just sayin'!