001 Brian Adams wrote this song with his longtime songwriting partner and collaborator Jim Vallance for Adams‘ 1984 album Reckless. Apart from the obvious references to a legendary summer of ‘69 (Adams must have been 9 years old during that summer), during which he tried to make it as a musician and fell in love with a girl standing on her mama‘s porch, this song supposedly is also about sex (hint: 69). Vallance disagrees but Adams insists. Alas, the main theme of the song is newfound freedom and the atmosphere and the lyrics truly encapsulate that.
001 Adams Brian (24) Summer of ‘69 Pop Rock, Heartland Rock
002 Adult Mom (??) I Think I‘m Old Enough Indie Pop
003 Aesop Rock (39) Blood Sandwich Abstract Hip Hop, East Coast Hip Hop
002 This song oozes a slightly irritatingly quirky atmosphere. Every line reads like «yeah, totally, but whatever». The line «cause it‘s weird when your parents are acting like your pals and it‘s weird when your dad is asking for your help» shows how ever-so-slightly confused the protagonist feels about this change in her life. She relies on her friends (and gives an homage to the same-titled TV show at the beginning of the song) and instead of self-parenting, she lives in a co-dependent relationship with them.
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003 On Blood Sandwich Aesop Rock dedicates a verse each to both of his brothers. He has said, that their relationship has influenced him and shaped him more than anything in his life and stories of the past, that they tell each other, have become classics to them. Two of them are presented on this track and it is a good mix of the typical growing up themes such as friendship, naivety, and rebellion.
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