“Rock and Roll Show” comes across as a love song for a significant other, initially at least, someone who has been there for you through the good times and the bad, that supportive, powerful, constant force in your life. And that may be true, but it is only part of the story. Look at the song from another angle, and you will find another meaning at work. The thing being celebrated here is rock and roll itself, that other powerful constant force in your life.
And what better way to pay tribute to that genre, that scene, that style, that…well, that iconic sound, than with a song that draws on everything that makes it such a timeless and tireless force.
Rock and roll reached a near-perfect form a long time ago, and all La Need Machine has to do is take all those key ingredients – driving beats, searing guitars, pulsing basslines, and anthemic, sing-along vocals – and prime and polish them for today’s audience. And that is just what they do here…and do it brilliantly.
“Rock and Roll Show” is a self-fulfilling prophecy—a song fashioned out of the very things it celebrates, in doing so, adding one more vital piece to the genre’s collective identity.
A great song from these Seattle rockers and perfectly times as, despite all those lazy journalists (not me, other lazy journalists) running off pieces about rock and roll heading for the retirement home and young pop pickers happy to worship at the temples of AI “creativity” and digital manipulation, rock and roll has never felt more robust, more poised for the attack, or more fit for service!
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