Love Sick - Bob Dylan

Artist: Bob Dylan
Song: Love Sick
Year: 1997
Album: Time Out Of Mind

Same setup, but no Soy Bomb in this performance.

Lyrics:
I'm walkin' through streets that are dead
Walkin', walkin' with you in my head
My feet are so tired
My brain is so wired
And the clouds are weepin'.

Did I hear someone tell a lie?
Did I hear someone's distant cry?
I spoke like a child
You destroyed me with a smile
While I was sleepin'.

I'm sick of love that I'm in the thick of it
This kind of love, I'm so sick of it.

I see, I see lovers in the meadow
I see, I see silhouettes in the window
I'll watch them 'til they're gone
And they leave me hangin' on
To a shadow.

I'm sick of love, I hear the clock tick
This kind of love, ah, I'm love sick.

Sometimes the silence can be like thunder
Sometimes I wanna take to the road and plunder
Could you ever be true
I think of you
And I wonder.

I'm sick of love, I wish I'd never met you
I'm sick of love, I'm tryin' to forget you.

Just don't know what to do
I'd give anything to
Be with you.

She's Got It All - Kenny Chesney

Artist: Kenny Chesney
Song: She's Got It All
Year: 1997
Album: I Will Stand

Country has gone pop. There really isn't much "true" country music anymore. In an age where throwaway bubblegum pop is disguised as country music (I'm looking at you, Taylor Swift), very few artists sound like anything close to what country music actually is. I blame the popularity of Garth Brooks as the main reason for this downturn.

Most artists think that if they put a steel guitar and a fiddle in a song and speak with a southern accent, that they have made a country song. It's not that simple, so many of today's "country" artists throw on a cowboy hat and wear boots to try to fool people into buying into the new country standard. There's nothing wrong with the music, it's just not country, in my opinion.

Kenny Chesney is one of the few artists that actually seems to respect the history of country. His music is still pop, but it does retain some of the hallmarks of what made country music great in the past. That's pretty good, in an era where disposable music is all the rage in this genre.

Lyrics:
She’s got every quality
From A all the way to Z
It’s easy to see she’s the perfect girl

She’s got every single thing
That makes up my wildest dreams
Somtimes I still can’t quite believe she’s holding me 'cause

She’s got it all my heart my soul my wishes
All of my love my hugs my kisses
Everything that means anything at all
All of my life I spent hopin’
I could give someone such devotion
Every sweet memory I can recall
She got it all

You know that I admitt
That someone to love like this
Only existed in my prayer
Until I saw her face
I knew I found the place
Where I could keep every faith eternally 'cause

She’s got it all my heart my soul my wishes
All of my love my hugs my kisses
Everything that means anything at all
All of my life I spent hopin’
I could give someone such devotion
Every sweet memory I can recall
She got it all

All of my life iI spent hopin'
I could give someone such devotion
Every sweet memory I can recall

All of my heart my soul my wishes
All of my love my hugs my kisses
Every sweet memory I can recall
She got it all

Fuel - Metallica

Artist: Metallica
Song: Fuel
Year: 1997
Album: ReLoad

This song was one of the first songs that I heard from ReLoad. I thought that I had first heard it during a 1995 concert recording, but looking over setlists, I cannot find a record of that. It wasn't played at the June 30, 1996 Lollapalooza concert I saw them at or the February 7, 1997 concert I witnessed either.

I'm not sure how I heard this song early, but I did, and I loved it. I thought it had the right edge to be old school Metallica merged with their newer sound. I liked the Load album, but for all the wrong reasons. It didn't sound like Metallica in most places. The ReLoad album was a return to form, but the songs weren't all strong. They were essentially leftovers from Load.

"Fuel" stood out from the rest of the songs. It could be thought of as a death song, but the surface was mostly about fast cars. All I know is that the song rocks. Metallica even performed the song on Saturday Night Live, which was odd to see. Their first single, "The Memory Remains" did not seem like a song Metallica should be singing. Change is fine, but this was another oddity. Metallica seemed to lose their way a bit in the late nineties.

For all the duets with outsider music artists and genre hopping, Metallica couldn't stray far from the speed metal that got them there. This showed me that they still had a pulse. They still could rock and the life had yet to be fully sucked out.

Lyrics:
Gimme fuel, gimme fire, gimme that which I desire,
oh

Turn on, I see red
Adrenaline crash and crack my head
Nitro junkie, paint me dead
And I see red

I run across through black and white
War horse, war head, fuck 'em, man
White knuckle tight
Through black and white

Oh, when I burn
Fuel is pumping engines
Burning hard, loose and clean

And then I burn
Turning my direction
Quench my thirst with gasoline

So gimme fuel, gimme fire, gimme that which I
desire

Turn on beyond the bone
Swallow future, spit out hope
Burn your face upon the chrome

Take the corner, going to crash
Headlights, headlines
Another junkie, who lives too fast
Lives way too fast, fast, fast, fast, fast, fast

Oh, when I burn
Fuel is pumping engines
Burning hard, loose and clean

And then I burn
Turning my direction
Quench my thirst with gasoline

So gimme fuel, gimme fire, gimme that which I
desire

White knuckle tight

Gimme fuel
Gimme fire
My desire

Oh, when I burn
Fuel is pumping engines
Burning hard, loose and clean

And on and on
Turning my direction
Quench my thirst with gasoline

Gimme fuel, gimme fire, gimme that which I
desire, oh
On I burn