Top Ten Songs to Dance To: Shattered (#8)

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Happy Friday! I won’t be so happy next Friday because I’ll be getting my chest flattened. I appreciate your sympathy, sisters, and while I’m on the subject, a memo to all women: GET A MAMMOGRAM. Now back to your regularly scheduled song to dance to. #8: Shattered - The Rolling Stones This is NOT a song that you’ll see used in New York City tourism ads. Now, I say that, but we had a cruise line using Iggy Pop’s drug anthem “Lust for Life” in an ad, and every baseball park plays the opening riff to the Violent Femmes’ “Blister in the Sun” with glorious disregard about the song’s subject matter. But to say that this is a positive look at New York City is very inaccurate. “Pride and joy and greed and sex, that’s what makes our town the best,” the Stones proclaim. Well, that might appeal to some (along with “this town’s full of money grabbers”), but most people will “mind the maggots.” And, of course, with every generalization, this is also as grossly inaccurate view of New York City as a whole. Yes, “the crime rate’s going up, up, up, up, UP!!!” there, but where isn’t it! There are parts of my town I wouldn’t go into without a division of Marines to protect me. That goes for New York City, Chicago, L.A., St. Louis, Nashville, Atlanta, and pretty much every city you can think of. In other words, this song is 100% wrong and 100% right, depending on where you are at any given moment. I’m glad I’ve been to New York City. I’m not too keen on going back (prices more than anything), but I’ve been there. I’ll be content to let the Stones sing about it. Shattered Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards Recorded by The Rolling Stones From Some Girls, 1978 Song used last month: “Ruby Tuesday” Rats on the west side: