{"id":1328,"date":"2016-07-15T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2016-07-14T10:12:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T09:12:12","slug":"song-of-the-week-were-not-gonna-take-it-by-twisted-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=1328","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;We&#8217;re Not Gonna Take It&#8221; by Twisted Sister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;We&#8217;re Not Gonna Take It&#8221; by Twisted Sister:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4xmckWVPRaI\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I first heard this song on Toronto&#8217;s CHUM-FM in 1984. My seven years-old ears had never heard anything like it, and the song excited me a whole lot.\u00a0 When I listen to it now, I can hear how derivative it is, of Alice Cooper, of the New York Dolls, of the Sex Pistols (themselves derivative of the New York Dolls), among others. I can also see that Twister Sister don&#8217;t care about that: they&#8217;re having a good time, making pop music with a big guitar sound, and they&#8217;re not taking themselves all too seriously.\u00a0 But being a cartoonish frontman of a cartoonish band doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re not a thoughtful human being, and Dee Snider also wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/dee-philip-bashe-snider\/dee-sniders-teenage-survival-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\">a self-help book for teenagers<\/a>, which I&#8217;ve always admired him for.\u00a0 The thing about Twisted Sister in my personal story of music is that they opened my ears, at a very (too?!) young age to a very different sound; they were basically my gateway band to the punk rock in all its various forms that I still love today.\u00a0 And I also can&#8217;t listen to &#8220;We&#8217;re Not Gonna Take It&#8221; without remembering being in the basement at the Mooney&#8217;s house, playing with all the kids while our parents had a dinner party upstairs, listening to CHUM-FM and hearing this song, and having my mind blown open by something new.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22We%27re%20Not%20Gonna%20Take%20It%22%20by%20Twisted%20Sister\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. This is &#8220;We&#8217;re Not Gonna Take It&#8221; by Twisted Sister: I first heard this song on Toronto&#8217;s CHUM-FM in 1984. My seven years-old ears had never heard anything like it, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22We%27re%20Not%20Gonna%20Take%20It%22%20by%20Twisted%20Sister\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-of-the-week","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}