Every generation goes through the same thing, the previous generation disapproving of the pop culture of the time. In the 1920's the deemed "scandalous" behavior was dresses showing the shin bone, girls wearing makeup, swing music and the dancing to it. Today is the so called scandalous behavior is not all that diffrent. Teens today are criticized for the way we dress, the way we do our makeup and the way we dance. Though our dresses today show more than just the shin bone, the principal is the same, every generation is going to disaprove of something the next generation is going to do. My grandparents disaproved oof the way my mother dressed in highschool, my mother disaproves of some of the outfits I wear, and I am certain i will disaprove of the outfits my future children will wear. It is a cycle, the next generation is not neccecarilly worse than the previous, just diffrent.

Robben Ford

 

One Man's Celing is Another Man's Floor

By Robben Ford

 

There's been some hard feelings here
About some words that were said
Been some hard feelings here
And what is more
There's been a bloody purple nose
And some bloody purple clothes
That were messing up the lobby floor
It's just apartment house rules
So all you 'partment house fools
Remember: one man's ceiling is another man's floor!
One man's ceiling is another man's floor


There's been some strange goin's on
And some folks have come and gone
Like the elevator man don't work no more
I heard a racket in the hall
And I thought I heard a call
But I never opened up my door
It's just apartment house sense
It's like apartment house rents
Remember: one man's ceiling is another man's floor!
one man's ceiling is another man's floor!


There's an alley
in the back of my building
Where some people congregate in shame
I was walking with my dog
And the night was black with smog
When I thought I heard somebody
Call my name

Uh… Uh…Uh…

Remember: one man's ceiling is another man's floor!
one man's ceiling is another man's floor!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zim8dInI8nU

 

 

     One Man's Ceiling is Another Man's floor by Robben Ford is about a run down apartment complex. The artist is trying to say that this apartment complex represents the rock bottom of someones life. This is the place you do not want to live in, but at some point you might have to; whether its where you start out or where you end up. The line "One man's ceiling is another man's floor" means that just that. I enjoyed this song because the music is upbeat and the lyrics are catchy. The thing that this song has in common with the legendary blues songs is just the theme of going through hard times.