For the same reason there’s no East Philly. Take a gander at the map, you’ll see.
I think it’s more that nobody ever calls a specific area South Detroit. Similar to ‘East California’ in Kim Wilde’s Kids in America.
For me it’s nearly all classic rock. I loved Freebird when I was a kid, but now it’s like nails on a chalkboard.
That’s the criteria I’m going with and like I said in the other thread, the question stumps me. The closest I can come are Van Morrison’s poppy hits “Blue Eyed Girl”, “Moondance”, etc. I liked them just fine until I forked out money to see that asshole live. Funny, though, I still dig those bluesy shouters recorded with Them.
I kinda derided acts like Journey and Fleetwood Mac back in the 70s, being all punk and snobby, but now do I not only enjoy the occasional Journey, but Rumours gets a steady amount of play here.
This, and most all of the misogynistic songs by the Beatles were pure John Lennon. He used to make fun of Paul by saying he only wrote ‘silly love songs’, so Paul wrote a song about that when he was in Wings. John was not a nice man.
Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon
Super creepy vibes
But there can be an east Philly, and a south Detroit, like down on the I75 corridor. And the east side of Chicago is not Lake Michigan, but could be Lincoln park, River North, the Loop, Wrigley Field, you get the idea. They need cops, too.
As for the thread, I’ll add Billy Joel’s Only the Good Die Young. I am no longer a Catholic, but that song still pisses me off. Such a trite overgeneralization of Catholic girls. Not all Catholics are uptight (evidence: me, and most of my church friends). Just 'cuz she won’t “put out” for you, Billy, doesn’t mean she’s repressed. She just doesn’t like you. If you treated her better, you wouldn’t be whining.
I don’t hate The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down if it is Joan Baez’s version, because, in my listening, she (accidentally, I think) makes it more of a lament of what the war cost, not more of the the “lost cause” BS mythos. But what I DO hate is Up On Cripple Creek. What a dork ass song. And damn if it doesn’t get stuck in your head.
Thanks to the rise of popularity of Yacht Rock, I became aware of the song Into The Night by Benny Mardones. it’s really a nice listening song, but it has such a creepy “I like 16 year old” undertone that I’m not sure I should be liking it. The artist claims it is not about having sex with an underage girls, but, reading the lyrics, if that is actually true, he needs to learn more songwriting skills! He claims it is about a mentor protecting and helping a troubled young girl (based on a real person he knew). We report, you decide!
She’s just 16 years old
Leave her alone, they said
Separated by fools
Who don’t know what love is yet
But I want you to know
If I could fly
I’d pick you up
I’d take you into the night
And show you a love
Like you’ve never seen, ever seen
Nobody, and I mean nobody, here would refer to that as a valid “east side” of Chicago, espeically as it’s most of the neighborhoods you mentioned are west of State. So far as there is an East Side, that would be the Southeast Side of Chicago, which actually contains a neighborhood called “East Side.” Neighborhoods like Hegewisch, South Deering, South Chicago, those could plausibly be an “East Side.” Maybe even South Shore. I might allow for Streeterville more towards the downtown area (so that’s one I may agree with you with Niver North), and the “New East Side” development around there. All east of State. The Loop and downtown is just Loop and downtown. It doesn’t have a north/west/east/south side-ness to it, even though State and Madison are right in the middle of it. A “side” needs some distance from its central point. North, West, and South Sides don’t really start until you get out of the Loop.
Yeah, serious squick factor, that.
The summer I was 16, I thought the whole of Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” was the greatest piece of music ever recorded, and for many years I have not been able to voluntarily listen to any of it.
But if someone, not from the midwest, asked me, where is the John Hancock Building, I’d say it was in the east side of Chicago. And if they asked, where is O’hare Field, I’d say on the west side of Chicago. And that would be enough to give them an idea, which is probably all they care about anyway.
Speaking of, another song I could do without ever hearing again is The Night Chicago Died.
"Daddy was a cop on the east side of Chicago
Back in the USA, back in the bad old days
In the heat of a summer night
In the land of the dollar bill"
I still like it, but I skip the fascist “Roger Waters is a tankie” side four (everything after Comfortably Numb)
When I was in college in the early 1990s, a local music critic said he realized He Was Really An Adult when he heard that, and didn’t think it was really such a bad song.
That’d be weird and confusing to me. I’d say near the lake, a little north of downtown. “East side of Chicago” tells me nothing with no other information. There’s a lot of “east side of Chicago” by your definition. And ORD is northwest. “West” seems way off to me as well and not a good job of telling someone from out of town where ORD is. By your definition, MIdway is also west side of Chicago. Poor guy’s gonna end up in Austin looking for a flight.
In my area it was just SO overplayed.
The long answer is “at least 75% of the songs which are staples on ‘classic rock’ stations.” I regularly listened to that format for over 30 years, across multiple stations, and all of them have the same core of about 100 songs which make up the vast majority of their playlists. I never again need to hear “Baba O’Reilly,” “Pride and Joy,” “More Than a Feeling,” “Foxy Lady,” “Hotel California,” etc., etc.
But, if I had to answer the question with one song that I actually used to really enjoy, but now just have no desire to ever hear it again, it’d be “American Pie.” Played – and overanalyzed by music fans – to absolute death for the past 50 years.
Oh this is a good one for me, even down to my age that summer. It feels incredibly juvenile now, but then we were 16 of course.
I can still listen to a lot of their catalog, but Battle of Evermore (especially the cover the Wilson Sisters did) makes me want to harm myself or others. Kashmir is just as bad.