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A Giant Dog “Sex & Drugs”

I wonder if the hook to this song, in which the singer shouts “I can’t even remember being young!,” would’ve seemed defiant to me if I’d heard it a decade or so ago. Maybe it would’ve hit me as a cool line, but I don’t think it would’ve resonated as much. It feels genuinely rebellious to hear a rock band play a very fast and loud song about how conflating rock music with youth is total bullshit, and the mythology built around living fast and dying young is empty and dumb. “Sex & Drugs,” which is followed by an equally great up-tempo number called “& Rock & Roll,” is an earnest celebration of the fun side of rock, and I think for this band, a way of reclaiming it from everything in culture that’s made it seem tired and clichéd.

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