I believe very strongly in the importance of good lyrics in rock music, but it seems to me that a lot of its listeners find that viewpoint effete and snobbish, and consider rock to have a kind of primal energy that's actually served better by stupid (or at least unintelligible) lyrics than clever ones. I think the first two lines of this song articulate their aesthetic with a stupidity that ap...
California sunshine popsters, The Merry-Go-Round, endured a wild, dizzy ride of short fame in the late 1960's. Fronted by multi-instrumentalist and musical golden boy, Emitt Rhodes in 1966, the band featured former members of Grass Roots and the Gene Clark Group. With two members still in high school, The Merry-Go-Round managed to reach the Top Ten with their first single, "Live" on radio sta
