Results for “Jim Croce”

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Jim Croce

This song is a musical setting of Rudyard Kipling's 1890 poem, sung in the voice of a British colonial soldier looking back at…

colonialism and racial hierarchy service and self-sacrifice guilt and belated recognition

Bill Callahan

A restless, aphoristic meditation on identity and self-narration, borrowing its title's initials to nod toward the noir novelist…

self-mythology impermanence of mood the unreliability of narrative

David Bowie

Written as the opening theme for Jim Henson's Labyrinth, this song sells escape as salvation while quietly undercutting it.…

escape and flight the seduction of easy comfort childhood vulnerability

The Doors

This is a live rehearsal-tape performance of the Van Morrison/Them garage-rock standard, stretched by Jim Morrison into a loose,…

adolescent sexual awakening performance and improvisation desire and impatience

My Morning Jacket

This is My Morning Jacket's reading of the Elton John/Bernie Taupin standard, not an original composition, so the analysis…

alienation from ordinary life the gap between public image and private self routine work stripped of glamour

The Doors

This is a late-vaulted Jim Morrison recording, released decades after his death as a posthumous single with the surviving Doors…

escapism aging and decline fame and image

My Morning Jacket

A hazy love song built out of small sensory observations—road lights, a bar crowd, a physical closeness—that gradually reveal…

new love transcendence through ordinary moments reassurance and commitment

The Doors

A loose, blues-based closer that trades narrative coherence for atmosphere, following a barfly heroine into a fictional…

urban decay and escape self-mythology blues lineage and authenticity

My Morning Jacket

This is a cover of Erykah Badu's 1997 kiss-off anthem, in which a woman lays out the receipts on a freeloading,…

financial exploitation in relationships entourage/freeloading friends self-respect and boundary-setting