He can also be whimsical and gloss over things (Reconsider Me just says, remember all that shit that happened, I'm better than that now).
Poor, poor, pitiful me, doesn't address the question of why he has all those strange women in his life.
But what I see, as the difference in those two (Denver/Zevon) is that Zevon's songs, even when being less than honest, are sincere.
Denver's are facile; unless one looks at them with critical eye, and then sings them for the irony.
(thanks Bear, I'd not really looked at them that deeply before, I think I understand more of Hunter Thompson's antipathy. "Uncle Duke" may have been strung out, but he hated falsity)
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Date: 2007-08-01 07:01 pm (UTC)He can also be whimsical and gloss over things (Reconsider Me just says, remember all that shit that happened, I'm better than that now).
Poor, poor, pitiful me, doesn't address the question of why he has all those strange women in his life.
But what I see, as the difference in those two (Denver/Zevon) is that Zevon's songs, even when being less than honest, are sincere.
Denver's are facile; unless one looks at them with critical eye, and then sings them for the irony.
(thanks Bear, I'd not really looked at them that deeply before, I think I understand more of Hunter Thompson's antipathy. "Uncle Duke" may have been strung out, but he hated falsity)
TK