Some Sad Song

The Pad is back! After a year of keeping me away from other Indian Rock forums, I finally have another place to waste precious time that could have been spent completing a dissertation that is somehow looking very, very far from done. But that's a story for another depressing day.

There's absolutely no album I'm looking forward to for the remainder of this year. And that sucks, 'cos I just cleared up about a gig and a half on my hard drive, and now I have nothing really special to fill it up with. Somebody recommended Swan Lake, but I'm not terribly excited by an indie super-band, especially not after Wolf Parade.

Tehehe.

I read an interview with Tom Morello somewhere and he said he still believed a good Rock song has to have a good riff. By 'riff' he was quite obviously referring to the distinctive guitar parts in such Rock greats as Black Knight, Smoke On The Water and the rest of the Deep Purple discography. I don't quite agree with Morello though. I wouldn't go as far as restricting the 'theory' of a riff to a guitar. So anything that one identifies with a song becomes its riff. The 1-2-1 kick of We Will Rock You, the chorus of The Call Is Songed, the fireworks in the sky when Cochise takes off. One wonders then about the concept of 'song' and therefore of verse, chorus, bridge, Pete Townshend, A Hard Day's Night vs Daytripper, and how someone like Tom DeLonge is making money. So much thinking has killed the last remaining mouse on the wheel in my brain. Goo goo goojoob.

Still too overwhelmed with Light Grenades, The Crane Wife and The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me for a full review, but here's a happy picture to keep y'all busy till then.