"Jimmy Jimmy" by Ric Ocasek
This song is off Ric Ocasek's debut solo album Beatitude. The album was described as very radio unfriendly and while I agree with that assessment, I still really like the album. It's great to hear a little experimentation from artists you like (Think of Remain in Light by Talking Heads). This was the first song on the album. I guess it was considered a single seeing as how a video had been made for it. The story of a lowlife going nowhere with his life. It's like a musical version of what depression feels like. That incessant percussive beat; lyrics which sound like a brain beating up on itself. There's a definite sense of not only a lack of purpose in the song, but of despair. It's beautiful in its hopelessness. I don't know what Mr. Ocasek meant by it but that's what I take from it. The who and the what are rarely important to me. All that matters is the how and the why.
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