I always loved that line from the movie Eddie and the Cruisers, where Eddie (played by Michael Pare) expresses confusion and disillusionment to his producer in the recording studio about the radically different second album his group is cutting in the sound-room. Eddie says: "I don't like it, it doesn't even make sense!" His producer responds: It doesn't have to make sense, it's rock-n-roll!"
That got me to thinking about all the rock songs that sound great, but don't discuss anything that most who listen to it will ever understand.
One of the first of these I heard growing up was the 1973 song " American Pie"
That only in college did I find out was about the death of Ritchie Valens and Elvis Costello in a plane crash in the late 1950's, portrayed many years later in the last few minutes of the film La Bamba.
So what are some other rock-n-roll songs that ostensibly make no sense? And what the hell do they mean?!?
