'JUDGMENTAL things CAME FALLING OUT ON THEIR HEADS'

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Hello friends,I don't understand very well the meaning of this sentence:' ...one universe (of archaic principles and values) where actions and virtues were old style and JUDGMENTAL things CAME FALLING OUT ON THEIR HEADS'  ... and w'd like someone explain it to meThanks in advance, Anony.

BarbaraPA · Accepted Answer

I think we need more context to be able to explain this.

Marius Hancu · Answer

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Marius Hancu · Answer

Probably:
Such songs are probably populated older/old-fashioned moral principles and old-style heroes which come into conflict with current-day morality.

This is the context.
The quotation doesn't seem to be fully correct.
Also the OP should have posted the URL/link.
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http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/2004-year-end-thoughts/alfred-soto.htm

Turning lyrics into signifiers of a dread too vague to articulate is a
device as old as the hills, and the Bob Dylan of Chronicles has been
listening to these murmurs for more than forty years. When we listen,
drawing breaths, as the liquor store clerk in Darnielle's "Against
Pollution" admits to shooting someone in the face, we hear not just
ourselves in the character's plainspoken deadpan--the shooting is
shocking because it just happens, even when he halfheartedly admits at
the end that the guy tried to kill him--but we also project the gnomic
parts of our lives that are dangerous when called to action. We hear
echoes: Wire's "Kidney Bingoes," Springsteen's Nebraska, "Last Kiss,"
of Dylan's version of the murder ballad "Stack A Lee" especially. The
mythical land of songs like "Stack A Lee," he writes, is populated
"with more archaic principles and values; one where actions and
virtues were old style and judgmental things came falling out on their
heads."
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Clive · Answer

Hi,

The song that here is referred to as Stack A Lee is actually called Stagger Lee.

Best wishes, Clive

Marius Hancu · Answer

EDIT:
Wanted to say:
Such songs are probably populated with older/old-fashioned moral principles and old-style heroes which come into conflict with current-day morality.

Mind you, populated doesn't resonate with principles, but ...

'JUDGMENTAL things CAME FALLING OUT ON THEIR HEADS'

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