Rarely Pure & Never Simple

day 01 - your favorite song

I don’t have a favorite song. I don’t like that label, simply because there’s so much music out there that I love. There are so many songs that I hold dearly. But for the sake of this challenge, I will pick one. Just one.

Jugband Blues - Pink Floyd

As a Pink Floyd fan since the age of 13, I’ve known and liked this song for quite some time. However, my senior year of high school, I wrote a huge research paper on Syd Barrett for my AP Lit class. We had to take a poet and dissect their poems and tie them back to their life. I analyzed the ever living hell out of this song, and it’s been love ever since. This song is so powerful, and Syd Barrett’s words are beautifully put together. I know there’s a lot of controversy over this song with people that think Syd is diagnosing himself with a mental disorder (schizophrenia) by writing this song. While, yes, it is inevitably true that Syd’s mind was different than most, to think that he wrote this song to say “HEY I’m a schizo!” is completely foolish. At the time, his band mates, his friends, the people that supposedly understood him, or should have understood him, better than others thought he was going crazy. They were in the mist of replacing him, and ultimately kicking him out of a band he helped create.

Anyway, I’m starting to rant. As you can see, I’m really into this song.