How can a fifth grader understand the pain of someone whose glory days were in high school as they sit staring at the endless years of adulthood in front of them? At that point in childhood, growing older as quickly as possible would be like a genie’s wish come true. Unlike the obvious double entendre of some other songs, I knew I was missing the point and I tried hard to get it.īut I couldn’t. The core meaning of life going on after the thrill has gone, of having one’s best years behind them, was completely lost on me at the time. I was singing the lyrics.well, singing the words as a 10 year old understood them. I remember listening to this one with my cousin John in the basement of my grandparents’ house one holiday or another.
Jack-a common nickname for John? Aha, so the song in autobiographical. The lyrics are so quotidian, non-heroic, that most listeners can immediately identify with the protagonist, Jack.
Life is composed of brief moments of sound and fury surrounded by so much basic living. In contrast to the raucous opening, the verse settles into a gentle narrative. Holidays happen in cold weather and the songs you hear at the holidays become associated with cold weather. Probably because that’s when the aunts and uncles and cousins would get together at my grandparents’ house near Buffalo, NY. Then onto the next growling dream.įor me, this is an autumn song, a winter song. Big dreams, bold decisions followed by the cold reality of effort and luck. The combination of acoustic and electric guitars with the hand clapping and deeply resonant drums, grabs the attention.īursts of electric guitar growl, then audio decay into a silence sparsely populated by hand claps. It harkens back to itinerant folk singers crooning the lot of the common person in catchy songs.įirst, I love the opening. Maybe it’s his midwestern roots, but this tune is imbued with Americana. And the songs I don’t love, I really dislike. Bowie and Mellencamp both fall into this category for me. But there are a few artist who just don’t work that way. Generally, if I really love multiple songs from an artist, that artist becomes one of my favorites and I’m at worst neutral on the remainder of their catalog. It’s kind of love/hate with these artists. I am enthralled by my favorite artists and love almost every single song they have ever recordedīut then there exists a weird sixth category:Īrtists from whom I really love the songs I love and actively dislike the rest.
I am neutral toward them (I wouldn’t change the channel if they came on, but I wouldn’t seek them out). For most people, artists fall into one of the following categories: However, Jack's will have a greater standard deviation.In his pre-Mellencamp days, well actually in his brief interlude between longer Mellencamp periods, John Cougar unleashed a fine tune into the world. Jack's distribution and Diane's distribution are expectedito be approximately normal. Diane's distribution is expected to be approximately normal. Jack's distribution is expected to be skewed left, but not as much as the original distribution. Jack's distribution is expected to be approximately normal. Diane's distribution is expected to be skewed right, but more than the original distribution. Jack's distribution is expected to be skewed right, but not as much as the original distribution. Jack obtains 1000 random samples of size n = 3 from the population, finds the mean of the means, and determines the standard deviation of the means, Diane does the same simulation, but obtains 1000 random samples of size n = 40 from the population. Suppose Jack and Diane are each attempting to use a simulation to describe the sampling distribution from a population that is skewed right with mean 50 and standard deviation 5.
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