"Analog Man" Survivor

[sodascouts]

OK, I've listened to the song a few times and I've found an interpretation I'm satisfied with.

The song is indeed about people ignoring what's going on around them - the world going to Hell in a Handbasket and everybody too self-involved to notice.

However, perhaps when he says "And the band played on" he means that it's a musician's duty to keep playing even when all this bad stuff is happening, because music still has power to help people. After all, he's a musician, and he uses music to speak out. Maybe, just like the band on the Titanic, musicians persisting in their craft will make a difference and make the world a better place.

In this interp, the band on the Titanic are held up as admirable men, not as selfish out-of-touch idiots unable to look beyond their own noses to see the destruction around them. "Admirable" works a lot better for me.

Nonetheless, I find the music doesn't really seem to work with the lyrics. It has this Eastern feel and the criticism seems directed primarily at the Western world. After all, hasn't Joe recently been enthralled by Eastern religion, as his BFF Ringo was so many years ago? Therefore, putting these lyrics to Eastern music doesn't make sense to me; in fact, I find it jarring.

I cast my vote for Band Played On.

[Prettymaid]

Thanks Soda. I certainly agree with your last paragraph.

I'm just home for lunch now and don't have time to absorb Soda's interpretation, but I forgot that Joe put some notes abount the songs on the cover. Here is BPO...

BAND PLAYED ON

This is another one that Tommy Lee James and I wrote.
We got thinking about the Titanic going down and the
visual of the orchestra on deck playing the whole time

it was sinking ’cause that’s what they do. This song is

about America also. People acting like ostriches with
their heads buried in the sand pretending that
nothing is wrong. So you might say there is some social
commentary in this song.

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It does sound like Joe is saying that musicians just play - maybe not because it's their duty but because it's what is inside of them to do at any given time.

[Brooke]

Thanks for all the research. It helped me decide what to vote for.

I vote for The Band Played On.

[Freypower]

OK, I've listened to the song a few times and I've found an interpretation I'm satisfied with.

The song is indeed about people ignoring what's going on around them - the world going to Hell in a Handbasket and everybody too self-involved to notice.

However, perhaps when he says "And the band played on" he means that it's a musician's duty to keep playing even when all this bad stuff is happening, because music still has power to help people. After all, he's a musician, and he uses music to speak out. Maybe, just like the band on the Titanic, musicians persisting in their craft will make a difference and make the world a better place.

In this interp, the band on the Titanic are held up as admirable men, not as selfish out-of-touch idiots unable to look beyond their own noses to see the destruction around them. "Admirable" works a lot better for me.

Nonetheless, I find the music doesn't really seem to work with the lyrics. It has this Eastern feel and the criticism seems directed primarily at the Western world. After all, hasn't Joe recently been enthralled by Eastern religion, as his BFF Ringo was so many years ago? Therefore, putting these lyrics to Eastern music doesn't make sense to me; in fact, I find it jarring.

I cast my vote for Band Played On.

Nancy, I honestly was not trying to paint the Titanic musicians as oblivious fools or say that they weren't heroic. I don't know that Joe was either. I think you're looking at this far too closely. When I used the 'Rome burned' comparison I had no idea you were going to react in that way. I was being matter of fact & referring to what Joe was talking about generally, not the extremely specific situation of the band on the Titanic. Also like it or not the image has been used before to refer to the generalised image of going to hell in a handbasket, as you put it. I suppose not everybody is familiar with the exact details. See this song by Harry Chapin as a comparison with Joe's song. And yes, believe it or not, it mentions Nero. I didn't even know that when I looked it up.

http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/h/h...e_titanic.html

[Tiffanny Twisted]

I was gonna vote eary today before I left for work.lol
Then decided to relisten to it again and again to work and coming home.

I really like what he is saying in the song Wrecking ball..I enjoyed watching him perform it on live from daryls house.

I do like the band played on. I enjoy the different styles of guitar and how it is intense at the last third to the end of the sone. even the sitar...I also think its cool that Ringo played on this song.

Of course my fave is One day at a time. I even like this version is better than the live at melboure version.

I vote for analog man

[AzEaglesFan]

The Band Played On.

[Ive always been a dreamer]

Well - it looks like Analog is going to stick around for at least one more round, so I'm going to change gears in my strategy ...

I cast my vote for Lucky That Way.

[sodascouts]

The next song to be eliminated from Analog Man Survivor is Band Played On. “Band Played On”, you’re dead in the water. The tribe has spoken and it's time for you to go. Please leave the island immediately. The rest of the songs may return to camp.


Votes
Band Played On – 7
Lucky That Way - 2
Analog Man – 2

Vote Breakdown
Band Played On - Prettymaid
Band Played On – timfan
Band Played On - Topkat
Band Played On - WalshFan88
Band Played On - sodascouts
Band Played On - Brooke
Band Played On – AzEaglesFan
Lucky That Way - Freypower
Lucky That Way - Ive always been a dreamer
Analog Man - TimothyBFan
Analog Man – Tiffanny Twisted


Songs eliminated:
But I Try 11/15
Fishbone 11/17
India 11/19
Spanish Dancer 11/21
Hi-Roller Baby 11/25
Funk 50 11/27
Family 11/29
Band Played On 12/1


Songs remaining:
Analog Man
Wrecking Ball
Lucky That Way
One Day at a Time


VOTING FOR ROUND 9 BEGINS NOW!

[timfan]

This time there is no question for me Wrecking Ball is the next to go!

[Freypower]

Lucky That Way