I am continuing my string of "bugaloo" songs. This discussion was started in the "Monster Hunter Nation, Hunters Unite", back in November of 2019? it is a Facebook group with enthusiast of the ILOH "International Lord of Hate" A.K.A Larry Correia. We were talking about what song would we use if we looked out of our window or glanced at our security camera and saw this.....
One of the alphabet bois lining up to take down your house...What would be your "Valhalla" song and you would set it up to play as you load up magazines and prepare yourself.
I figured it would scar the alphabet boys if they come busting in and hearing a song about people standiing for their beliefs and willing to fight for them no matter the cost, Good Music unlike that crap they listen to now. What can I say, My humor is warped....just a bit. Next week will be "Danger Zone" by Kenny Loggins , Now that should really cause some psych evals., hehehe, some poor ATF guy trying to explain the attraction to his mother because he has the hots for a bunch of dudes wearing funny hats and strumming guitars...But hey it is ATF...and they ain't right anyway.
"I Won't Back Down" is the first single from Tom Petty's first solo album, Full Moon Fever released in 1989. The song was written by Petty and Jeff Lynne, his writing partner for the album. It reached number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the Album Rock Tracks chart for five weeks, starting the album's road to multi-platinum status.
Petty recalled the recording of this song to Mojo magazine: "At the session George Harrison sang and played the guitar. I had a terrible cold that day, and George went to the store and bought a ginger root, boiled it and had me stick my head in the pot to get the ginger steam to open up my sinuses, and then I ran in and did the take."
A message of defiance against unnamed forces of difficulty and possibly oppression, the lyric is set against a mid-tempo beat:
- Well I know what's right, I got just one life
- in a world that keeps on pushin' me around
- but I'll stand my ground, and I won't back down
In the 2007 documentary Runnin' Down a Dream, Petty said that he felt some initial hesitation about releasing the song, given its clear and unabashed message.
Yay! One I remember! Great song, and true today!
ReplyDeleteHey Old NFO;
DeleteEvery once and a while, I get lucky, LOL
Love the song, but Petty is a commie kook, an enemy. The shit they've pulled is so aggregious now that I can't find use for anything they produce.
ReplyDeleteF them and the horse they rode in on.
Hey Unknown;
DeleteUnfortunately most singers are "Lefties" it is par for the course, I used to not care what a singers political leanings were if I liked the music, but now they say I must vote like them or I am a bad person and that I don't like. We in America have free will and the problem is that the left hates that and tries to browbeat everyone else into compliance.