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“Hold on Loosely”  by .38 Special is one of the coolest rock songs I have heard recently. Sure, it came out back in 1981, on their Wild-Eyed Southern Boys album, which went PLATINUM, baby! I mean, obviously, because this song was on it and this song is awesome.

I love songs because it is like an equation or a recipe. You add and subtract parts and produce a product, right? Well one of the best mixtures in the song is the guitar playing. I swear I was doing the air guitar throughout this entire song. The guitar is fun and it the perfect ingredient for a awesome rock song. It is the is a perfect combination between the vocals and the music. Neither one over powers the other. But you can listen to both and have a really good song.

Another ingredient to the pot of rock is the beat. The beat has to go with the music and the lyrics, and it does in “Hold on Loosely”. Something about it’s rhythm makes me want to keep listening to it. The only that is not good about this song, is it gets stuck in you head. I have been singing this song in my head non-stop for a couple of weeks now!

No wonder why this band named themselves after a rimmed, centerfire bullet cartridge because they “kill”. Ha-ha. Pun intended. No, but seriously, this song is awesome, a true rock song. I only wish there was a music video for this song. I bet it would be too cool.