Description
The final track on More Fun in the New World, “True Love, Pt. 2” (part one was a completely different song on side one) had a funky, R&B-oriented rhythm guitar part and DJ Bonebrake backs it up with a solid beat. Other descriptions of this sound have included ‘dance-oriented’ or even ‘disco,’ which is goofy considering this was 1983. John and Exene sing about true love listing its attributes: it is the devil’s crow bar, suitcase, zip gun, car crash. Finally this melds into a series of musical quotations from a long list of American folk songs, nursery rhymes, blues roots, and more: “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad,” “Black Betty,” “Old MacDonald.” It marked the way that X, like many of the hippies before them, had turned toward traditional American music to express their experiences and views of modern life.
