Music Review // Gregory McLoughlin "Businessman"

 

It's funny how much the world revolves around business and we just don't seem to recognize it.  A good example of this is if you're someone like Gregory McLoughlin, perhaps you're not a businessman but rather a musician.  Then the businessman will come in and say "You should sell this song for a dollar".  Then another businessman comes in and says "I can sell your song for two dollars but you have to give me fifty cents!" And so on.   But this is just the unfortunate part of life where we need money to exist.

As this song says: "We all pay the price / And we roll the dice".  Sometimes we're the winning lottery ticket and sometimes we're trying to rub two pennies together.  On top of all of that most people don't even have a say in this because we're just "counting on the businessman to get it right".   If I told you how many times that the businessman did not get it right but was still able to do what he did you'd likely not believe me.

Gregory McLoughlin takes us through all of this with the fire of ZZ Top.  This song is lead by guitars and it can also remind me of "Takin' Care Of Business" by Bachman-Turner Overdrive, though that might just be at the suggestion of both songs being about business.   And even though it isn't exactly the same sound, I do hear a bit of "Squeeze Box" by The Who in here as well.  It's just that good old fashioned classic rock feeling.

At its core, I think "Businessman" does a great job of portraying how it's strange we must spend so much of our lives revolving around money and finance while not ourselves being familiar with either.  Imagine just unlimited food coming from the ground wherever you live and no one ever goes hungry.  But we must instead work to afford that which we love.  And all of our times is so precious, as the song says: "And the world keeps spinning but we don't go around twice".