Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Lightfoot's ballad reconstructs the 1975 sinking of a Great Lakes ore freighter as a modern folk legend, moving from myth…
man versus nature the indifference of the natural world labor and industrial life
Sonic Youth
A chance meeting on a train dissolves into a hazy, possibly murderous conspiracy between the narrator and a stranger, with the…
complicity and denial desire as danger dream logic
A satirical dialogue between a rock star's ego and a skeptical female voice, "Kool Thing" stages a flirtation that curdles into…
gender and power celebrity worship racial politics
Sonic Youth's cover of the Carpenters' "Superstar" strips the original's lush orchestration down to a slow, droning haze,…
one-sided obsession loneliness the falseness of mediated intimacy
