Worldly Success
Tom Petty "It's Good to be King" Rock
Jim Croce "Workin' at the Car-wash Blues" Rock 1973
Frank Sinatra "The Good Life" Jazz 1950's
Hank Williams ,Jr "Family Tradition" Country 1978
Queen “Under Pressure” Pop/Rock 1981
Liberation
Tom Petty “Free Falling” Rock 1989
Old Crow Medicine Show “Take’em Away” Folk 2001
Shine Down “Diamond Eyes (Boom-lay Boom-lay)” Rock/ Post-Grunge 2010
Billy Joel “River of Dreams” Rock 1993
Dierks Bentley “Free and Easy” Country 2003
In doing this aim set of liberation and worldly success with the songs I’ve found and looked into that the one more prevalent is that of Liberation. Now not saying worldly success didn’t have any that I saw, they had plenty but not enough to match. But, Liberation itself is something that anyone can think of, something to believe in. Liberation is giving up and freeing the inner self for the world to see. In doing that you’ve become happy with yourself, specifically in the Indian sense. Having said that there are others cultures where liberation is wonderful thing. One culture or ethnic background such as mine from being Polish is that when a person dies that in itself is a form of liberation. We have the sad part of grieving, missing the departed, but shortly after that we party are asses off get drunker than any Irish person you’ve seen and are happy for the person to be free of this world also that they don’t have to deal with the day to day bullshit of life.
I digress, but I see that Liberation is more prevalent because there are times where you just want to say screw it and throw away the shackles of life. The observations just like in the last one is about the same one Aim beats the other not so much in a fight but just how people can deal with it. People can be like electricity they try to follow the path of least resistant, But in music I think that, Liberation is easy to speak about, but doing it is the hard part. Worldly success on the other hand can be hard as liberation but the path is a little bit easier defined.
The Hindu understanding is and always will be a time tested tradition. This in itself gives it merit, the understanding though gives it that strength. But in American culture especially pop culture we as Americans have no idea about it. We might stumble upon something and it sound good and run with it, BUT someone wrote it about over 2000 years ago, who’s going to win that battle….haha. So that’s what I think where the understanding differs. But hey that’s me, I’m only Polish here.
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I completely agree about Americans having no idea about the true meaning of success and liberation in the real sense of each word! I really like your approach in analyzing each of the Hindu aims. I truly believe in being happy with yourself will make you complete in the end and I feel like this is also a theme in Hindu culture.
ReplyDeleteYour discussion was really interested and made me look at the subject in a different light.
It's interesting to see you had an easier time finding liberation songs than success, since the opposite was true for me. I like how you added in a Polish tradition into your interpretation of the two aims. It sounds like an awesome tradition.
ReplyDeleteIt was interesting to see the comparison between the Hindu version of liberation and the Polish understanding of liberation. It was cool to compare and contrast the two, with the little understanding I got from your post.
ReplyDeleteNice job on the links. They all work!
The little understanding of what?
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