Thursday, June 16, 2005
Blue Moon, Boom Boom
I first heard the song "The Anthem" by Buck 65 about 3 years. It's amazingly well written for a song that consists entirely of nicknames of baseball players. The song is brilliant and is probably one of the better pieces (lyrically) he's recorded in the last 3 years.
Intended as an oral piece, William 'Sugar' Wallace's poem, Anthem was re-printed in the 3rd Edition of the Fireside Book of Baseball. I bought a copy of that book just before I moved to Alberta and then subsequently left it at my parent's house. I don't remember ever reading the poem until about 3 months ago when I picked up the book looking for a story Mordecai Richler wrote about baseball in Montreal.
Buck 65's "The Anthem" is just a re-working of Wallace's work. Lines are re-arranged to allow for a less stilted delivery. Worth listening to regardless of whether you know the players referred to or not.
There's only one nickname that I feel should have made the list, 'Death to Flying Things'.
I first heard the song "The Anthem" by Buck 65 about 3 years. It's amazingly well written for a song that consists entirely of nicknames of baseball players. The song is brilliant and is probably one of the better pieces (lyrically) he's recorded in the last 3 years.
Intended as an oral piece, William 'Sugar' Wallace's poem, Anthem was re-printed in the 3rd Edition of the Fireside Book of Baseball. I bought a copy of that book just before I moved to Alberta and then subsequently left it at my parent's house. I don't remember ever reading the poem until about 3 months ago when I picked up the book looking for a story Mordecai Richler wrote about baseball in Montreal.
Buck 65's "The Anthem" is just a re-working of Wallace's work. Lines are re-arranged to allow for a less stilted delivery. Worth listening to regardless of whether you know the players referred to or not.
There's only one nickname that I feel should have made the list, 'Death to Flying Things'.
# posted by Die Brucke @ 10:08 AM 
