BIG TRAIN
There is a remarkable variety on the songs on the Dead Hippie album Living Dead, in terms of the musical style in particular. A lot of them are political, such as the one that really stands out to me from the album, “Big Train” whose chorus goes:
If we can’t stop it, no one can
That big train rolling across this land
If we don’t stop it, no one else will
That black smoke is rising over the hill
I wanted to put in the inflection also, because that is their style: Dead Hippie is quite theatrical; and though it is an easy style to mock, like the speeches of Rev. Jesse Jackson, we are all still better off for having heard their music.
(July 2012)
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Songs by Dead Hippie are rather hard to turn up on YouTube, but I have found some. “Big Train”, the song that I quoted in my UARB post can be heard at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDVyiZeL3ss .
(July 2014)
