Originally Posted by
wuapinmon
Welcome, pilgrim. Please answer the following question carefully, as our future dealings....anyway.
Any young man from the 1980's will remember Risky Business, not so much for Tom Cruise dancing around in his socks to Bob Seger's "Old Time Rock & Roll" and more for that sexy-as-hell scene with Rebecca De Mornay coming into his house, the back doors blowing open, and her earning her wages. Seger also aurally decorated the airwaves in the 1990's with his "Like a Rock" commercial pimping Chevy pickups. I'm from Woodstock, Georgia, and Woodstock and Snoopy sold us MetLife, while Prudential advised us to "Get a piece of the Rock." The Rock of Gibraltar, seen in their logo, is a British exclave at the southern tip of Spain, land that Spain lost in 1713, but still claims as theirs. It gets its name from the conquering Moorish general who unseated the Visigoths from the Spanish crown in 711 Anno Domini. The Visigoths' 250-year reign in Spain gave us wonderful German names like Adolfo, Rodolfo, Ricardo, and the fabulous Gumercinda. We also get the patronymic naming system of -ez from them. So, Sánchez is "son of Sancho" and Rodríguez is "son of Rodrigo" and so on. While the Visigoths under Alaric rocked Rome in 410, they were far away from their Baltic Sea roots in the land of Greuthungi, with a root of "rocky pebbly coast" as its meaning. Goths in the USA like to hang around Denny's at 2AM and smoke by the front door. While many goths listen to death metal and paint their faces white and black and get wretched tattoos, some of them grow up to be fans of all kinds of rock music. When I want to rock out, I load up Spotify, plug my laptop into my stereo, and then blare Smashing Pumpkins, Rage Against the Machine, and Led Zeppelin; Billy Corgan's "Hummer" is one of the best songs ever written, and "Whole Lotta Love," while awesome when thinking about sex, is very distracting to hear if you're actually having sex--true story. So, the question remains, when you want to remember, with more than a tinge of nostalgia, what it felt like to be an angry young man, to feel that power that only thundering bass and crashing guitar can give you, what do you rock out to?