Assorted Thoughts on Music at the End of the Year
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Assorted Thoughts on Music at the End of the Year
Just Give Me One Reason
The last few months have provided us with a collection of music from some of “classic rock’s” most notable stars, some of who are among the most important in rock history. We have a single from The Beatles built from the bones of a John Lennon demo — billed as the final Beatles’ recording. We have the first Rolling Stones album in the post-Charlie Watts era. There was a single by Bruce Springsteen from the film She Came to Me. All of these received plenty of publicity and none of them are bad. They’re just unnecessary records, music that exists in a kind of limbo.
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That might seem harsh, but the reality is that none of this music stands up towhees artists’ best work. None of it is likely to be “the track” fans turn to when they think of these bands — and had they been recorded by anyone else, had these songs been associated with a different band or performer, no one would have cared…
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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