Results for “The Church”

Artists

Ice Cube

A crunk-era posse cut in which Ice Cube and Snoop Dogg trade boasts built around a single taunt: prove your toughness or admit…

performative masculinity authenticity vs. fraudulence street credibility

The Church

A breakup song dressed as a snake-handling parable, where the departing lover is figured literally as a reptile the narrator has…

toxic attachment betrayal and self-deception seduction and danger

Jimi Hendrix

This is a live-improvised twelve-bar blues built on the familiar 'Red House' framework, prefaced by a loose spoken invocation…

longing and separation blues tradition and lineage music as spiritual/communal experience

Run the Jewels

A high-velocity posse cut where El-P and Killer Mike trade verses of violent bravado, prison-abolitionist rage, and sexual…

mass incarceration and prison abolition institutional hypocrisy (church, courts, police) hypermasculine bravado and sexual conquest

Sandy Denny

A meditation on empty churches and forgotten faith, framed as a solitary walker's observation of a Sunday service she stands…

religious doubt rural isolation decay of tradition

Jethro Tull

A sustained attack on institutional religion, contrasting the rigidity of church ritual with a pantheistic sense of the divine…

institutional religion vs. personal spirituality hypocrisy pantheism/immanence

Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye sketches a wish list for a monogamous, church-going partner against a mid-80s backdrop of promiscuity and disease…

sexual anxiety in the AIDS/herpes era the sacred vs. the profane desire for domestic stability

Kris Kristofferson

A hungover drifter walks through a quiet Sunday city, and every ordinary domestic sound he passes -- frying chicken, children…

loneliness addiction and self-medication nostalgia for domestic normalcy

The Louvin Brothers

A gospel warning sung as a first-person testimony, this track uses a rural church scene and a broken-down old man's confession…

religious fear testimony and confession the corruption of domestic life

Fairport Convention

This is the Fairport Convention electric-folk arrangement of the ancient English/Scottish ballad about adultery, betrayal, and…

class inequality adultery and its consequences honor and vengeance