August 18, 2008

Bye Bye Miss American Pie

Due to their brevity, I am included two posts today. The first was posted January 5th 2005, and is really just a link that I do not want to lose. It is a fantastic analysis of the song American Pie by Don McClean. The song is a relevant landmark of American culture, being a commentary of the revolutions of the 1960s which our society still has not entirely recovered from, nor are we likely to ever fully recover. Here's the post:

here's something really cool:
The meaning of American Pie!
I throughly enjoyed reading this. Tell me what you think?

Comment topics:
  • McClean's use of symbolism
  • The 60's in general
  • Thoughts on Mic Jagger being synomonous to Satan
  • Personal opinion of the song

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