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The Demics ~ New York City

submitted by qualm

1 decade 3 years 6 months 3 weeks ago

Voted the number one rock song of all time by Rolling Stone or somesuch, not too many years ago.

3 Comments

Taint says...

Man, those guys are really good.

Awesome sift

qualm

says...

They *were* but they're long defunked. The singer who wrote the tune is dead now. He was the father of one of my best friends in high-school and in those few hallucinogenic years of limbo post-hs.

I grew up in a really conservative 'old money' city that had, as an alternative repercussion, one of the best music things happening back in the 70s and early 80s. (The days when the people trying to harm you for living outside of normative boundaries wore either Doc Martins or motorcycle boots; when you knew the politics of your enemies by the colour of their boot-laces.)

The short story is: The folks who made it happen had kids, I went to school with those kids, and I can proudly say that if it wasn't for the parents of my mates I'd be a fooking tax lawyer or somesuch awfulness.