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Front row at the Smashing Pumpkins…“I took my love, I took it down ~ Landslide by Stevie Nicks (1975) Joel Bowman with today’s Note From the End of the World: Buenos Aires, Argentina…While American voters were delivering something of a political landslide this past Tuesday, your generally apolitical editor was reliving the glory days of his misspent youth, watching Billy Corgan deliver an acoustic rendition of the Stevie Nicks classic, Landslide, here in Buenos Aires… Many tides have turned since we first heard this tune, which we used to sing on the way to swimming training, bleary eyed, at 5am every morning. Funny how songs still speak to us, with new and ever changing meanings, even after all these years. From the lyrics… Well, I’ve been ‘fraid of changin’ There were other tunes, too… Smashing Pumpkins classics like Bullet with Butterfly Wings, Disarm and Mayonaise. For one brief night, jumping along with the rock ‘n’ roll crowd, we felt like we were seventeen again. Then came the next morning when, battered and bruised, we got a sudden glimpse of what it might be like to feel 70… Cheers, Joel Bowman
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