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MODERN WORLD (total playing time 4:32) Song Facts: This can be found on Sahara Snow.
MORE FAN REVIEWS / COMMENTS Although this song doesn't really seem to
"fit" on this sexually charged CD, I like it. It's a good opener with a great
beat. I like the "sounds of the city" at the start and the soft strains of
"Unchained Melody" which seem to waft through the air, sort of like you're
walkin' along a busy street and catch the sound of a passing car's radio. This is not one of my favorite songs on the cd. I like the lyrics a lot. Just not real crazy about the music. I also think it has that ROL kind of tone to it. It's almost like he's saying this is the way the world is, and he's trying to be positive about it, but I'm just not getting the feeling that he's all that optimistic. He sure uses the word "soul" a lot in his songwriting. I really like that. Listen to that bass line!!! You've got to love that. I like the music, myself. The way he put the vocal line together is awesome. Guess it is kind of retro in sound, but I liked it because it's fun and not so serious. My first taste of Sahara Snow. And what a taste it was. I was hooked from the beginning. Loved the guitar sound from the very get go. Loved the beat and the rhythm of the song. I don't think I really even heard a word of the lyrics. It was just the music and the sound of his voice. AND let's not forget the funky guitar line. I'm a sucker for funk rock and this was hitting the "sweet spot". Big time. On to the lyrics. To me this is a song to someone who has kind of become afraid of the world around them and shut themselves off from the world. This is a call to that person to get out and live their life. Saying, yeah, things are a mess in this world and sometimes it is tough to deal with what this world has become, but you just have to buck up and do what ever you need to do to adapt and deal with the way things are and get out and make the most of your life. If you sit around wishing for how life or things used to be, you life will pass you by. No matter how alone you feel in your life and how you think there is no one out there that thinks and feels the same way as you, to keep looking because the right person/people are out there and you just need to sift through the mess of what this world has become to find them. This is one of my favorites! I can NOT
tell you the amount of times I have turned this song on full blast in my car while driving
to work early in the morning--it is just the way I feel a great deal of the time. Of
course my daughter is always telling me what a "negative" view I have of the
world! This song certainly describes just how I feel about it. I LOVE this CD almost completely through
and through. This song starts it off right. |
Interesting that this lists all three fellows working on
the lyrics and music. It's message is very simplistic. The beginning of this song with the sounds of traffic, people on the street talking and the strains of Unchained Melody is a very interesting one. It lends to the modern world concept. The tune is a catchy one with all the hooks necessary for you to be tapping your toes to. I remember first listening to it and being surprised that it had such an 80's feeling. It has a lot of synthesizers and a lot of mixing - obviously. :) Of course, like many of Rick's songs, it mentions relationships or in this song's case, the lack of one. It's the Monday morning drudgery and he's singing an encouragement to the person that has recently had a break up. He's trying to offer hope to the hopeless. It's just life, the modern world, with the homeless, the telemarketers and the world that no one knows you exists. Listen to your heart he sings (gee, why does that sound familiar?) and live life to the fullest. Embrace the smallness & the largeness and just get on with it because that's all there is. :) For me
the song starts out kind of like a memory. I personally think this is the part of the song
that really illustrates what the song (for me) is about. Sitting back remembering a
simpler time, the music – the sound of people - the sounds of the street. Then ZOOM
you’re transported to the present Modern World, which is busier and much more
complicated. When I’m reading something about American history, especially the
50’s and 60’s, I feel like they had it somewhat easier than we do in
today’s world. They were more relaxed and the expectations of high achievement
and do it now (the computer age) weren't’t there. The world was less populated, there
seemed to more of an innocence that was definitely lost. The beginning of this song truly sounds like “the modern world” to me. Lots of different noises, music coming from somewhere, people talking, much like walking down any city street in any town. I popped this CD in immediately upon it’s receipt in my hot little hands, and right away knew I was gonna like it just from that snippet. It is “so Rick” (for lack of a better term to describe it) in the way that it reminded me of SOTH, or Woman...you know with their funky lil’ beginnings that at first strike you as different, but then just kind of blend right in with the song and you can’t imagine hearing it any other way. I think that the beat is awesome and easy to dance to, and I rate this record a 95, Dick (Clark) :-) Seriously, this is quite the toe tapper (or steering wheel slammer, where I bop my hand along while driving in the car). I tell ya, I was so happy the first oh, 50 times listening to this song that I didn’t really care what in the heck Rick was singing about, it was a new song!! So now I’m in “review” mode here, really really listening to the lyrics. I’ve found that this song reminds me of “Bop Til Ya Drop” for some reason, maybe in the similarities of the words about working and getting through life. I swear the first stanza is totally me...I HATE when that alarm goes off on Monday mornings, and I wonder to myself if this is IT, the way it’s gonna be for the rest of my life, because it kind of sucks... (getting up on Monday mornings) so here’s Rick telling me, “There’s a soul somewhere out there who’s just like you” Good. Maybe the two of us can change it. :-) “Yeah, the telephone rings- another
faceless caller” Oye! Rick’s at my job with me. Or, could he
be talking about those annoying telemarketer calls we get at home? Either way, that
is OUR world now, isn’t it? “You’re not a soul, you’re just a
number”. Watching the news every evening (asking myself why I’m watching,
it’s the same bullsh*t) “You’re looking at families living on the streets
where mama can’t buy her baby enough to eat” Yep, this is our modern
world. I never really cared for this song, although I agree that it is a toe-tapper. It's just too synthesized for me. The thoughts within the song seemed like a continuation of Tao and Rock of Life...the world sucks, whatcha gonna do about it? Working from a very fuzzy memory here, there's a line from Tao (I think), "I'm crazy 'bout the car I drive while others struggle just to stay alive." He repeats this idea in Modern World. I don't really enjoy this song ... the
only one I truly dislike on SS. I listen to it once in a great while, trying to like
it, but I just can't get into this one. Not sure why... it just doesn't do anything
for me. I like this song. But like someone else said, it doesn't really fit with the rest of the songs on the cd. The majority of the CD is very sex/sexual oriented, and this is more "this is life - deal with it". I do find myself skipping this song, not because I don't like it, but because it's not what I'm looking for when I usually pull out this cd. I really like this song because I can relate to
what I feel this song is about. I feel like it's a song about a one-sided love, one person
loves another but its not returned. That other person may not even know she's in love with
him. How many crushes did I have over the years, where the guy had no freakin' clue that I
even liked him?! |
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