06-18-2009, 07:52 AM
06-22-2009, 12:23 PM
I am so used to hearing Canadian place names in hip songs, I thought that "It's minus 11, inside my kettle" in Depression Suite, was "It's minus 11, In Sagmakettow" and I had to google to see if such a place existed in Canada....
06-23-2009, 05:44 PM
Another Depression Suite Lyric Analysis:
Go to be a man of the boom
To Florida without the Ocean
This may be looking into things way too deeply, however if this is what Downie intended, it is sheer brilliance:
The lyric speaks of migrating to a new place - a place where others are flocking, and things are happening in a big way.
My suggestion is that Florida, may not be a literal place, but rather a person...
Richard Florida wrote a popular book entitled `The Rise of the Creative Class`. His theory focused on the importance of cities to fund creative projects such as cultural enhancement, and artistic means to attract budding entrepreneurs to spark the local economy into a boom town. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Florida
We know that Gord is capable of developing complex lyrics with multiple meanings. I`m not positive that this is one of them, however, it certainly would be clever.
Thoughts...
Go to be a man of the boom
To Florida without the Ocean
This may be looking into things way too deeply, however if this is what Downie intended, it is sheer brilliance:
The lyric speaks of migrating to a new place - a place where others are flocking, and things are happening in a big way.
My suggestion is that Florida, may not be a literal place, but rather a person...
Richard Florida wrote a popular book entitled `The Rise of the Creative Class`. His theory focused on the importance of cities to fund creative projects such as cultural enhancement, and artistic means to attract budding entrepreneurs to spark the local economy into a boom town. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Florida
We know that Gord is capable of developing complex lyrics with multiple meanings. I`m not positive that this is one of them, however, it certainly would be clever.
Thoughts...