Something from my high school days
P.S. Peacemaker got me hooked^^
Sounds like you had a pretty cool introduction to classic tunes! I remember my parents spinning Simon & Garfunkel and Carole King on road trips, those songs always seemed to set the mood just right. Being around radio must have been wild, especially getting to know so many different artists from the inside. I was a college radio DJ for a semester, mostly spinning 80s and early 2000s stuff, and it gave me a whole new appreciation for older music.
One of the perks, I suppose, of doing construction work across the US in the 70’s, 80’s and early 90’s was the neverending stream of different radio stations, new songs and DJ’s/personalities.
No cell phones or Internet at the time and no time for tv even if I’d had one. Just the constant radio while on the road and working.
So many songs and singers/groups. Grand Old Opry to House of Hair, George Jones to Boy George. Doesn’t seem possible to encapsulate it all in just a few selections.
What a long strange trip it’s been to wind up here.
I recall telling someone at the time that Michael Jackson would probably be just another flash in the pan that no one remembered after a few years. Guess I have to take the L on that one.
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Radio is still a “magic box”. It still manages to change my mood especially while driving. This “magic” must survive through the years, it’s very useful.
I don’t really hold with the idea that music from one era is just better than another. Generally people like what they grew up listening to especially if it’s connected to good memories. There’s plenty of bad art to go around in every era. Time just has a way of filtering it out.
That said, looking back on it now, what the 70’s were is a Cambridge explosion of sorts in music across most genres and even creating some new ones. I would credit a lot of that to Western civilization becoming a lot more prosperous in general leaving a good number of people free to pursue careers in music and everyone else more able to buy it.
Where it goes from here and what types of music it produces remains to be seen/heard. It’s been said art is a reflection of the the times and the people thereof. But it seems to me that more and more it’s detached from any kind of reality and is becoming a type of fantasy in itself. Maybe a dissatisfaction with how things are and maybe there’s only so many songs about the same few topics that can be made without people getting completely sick of hearing and/or singing them. Queue the constant search for the next big thing. I’ll be cheering them on.
In the meantime…
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Sepultura roots
Er, Cambrian explosion. One thing we didn’t have back then was auto correct.
I believe it’s more than that.
You maybe “pierced” from a song or music that you never listen before. Music and poetry combined is a daily miracle that communicate straight with your soul. We often forget we have soul.
The poetry of a song is not easy, the poet must tell a story in just few words and lines.
The music composer must understand the story very correctly like he lived it and create music for it.
The singer is not an easy choice too, any good voice is not enough, it must be the correct voice giving the correct feeling.
Last but not least the people who play the instruments should understand the whole concept too, study it very carefully and give their own piece in this effort.
These two or three minutes outcome may hide a year of creation sometimes. People may love it in the end, nothing is certain yet the effort is great and true every single time.
I am not saying that true talented “bards” don’t exist, people that can literally compose a song (lyrics and music) in just a few minutes, still this is rare even for these talented bards, they will probably create 1 or 2 songs like it in their whole life . Their success again is not certain!
Bottom line in order to get in your soul many people must place their own soul in their work.
That’s why it’s art and it’s great.
Absolutely it’s more than that. That’s just something that I see a lot of.
I would put songs like Johnny Cash’s Hurt, Bring Me to Life and Losing My Religion into that cache of rare gems that instantly become a favorite the first time you hear it. If only all songs could be like that.
There’s a number of very popular singers who really do not have a good voice but usually the music, energy/delivery and in some cases the message make up for it.
For instance Mariah can certainly hit the high notes but this will always be my favorite version of this song. But then this is the one I heard first.
Almost tempted to go on a 70’s trip but it would… take a decade. I’ll veer down another alley for now. Occasionally I come across a song that I have absolutely nothing in common with, though I may know people who do, but I’m still drawn to it’s rawness and intensity.
Sometimes I like a song simply for the way it sounds and never feel compelled to try and understand it because that might ruin it. If that makes any sense.
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Absolutely! Absolutely!
And it’s not because we grow up with this version, or we fell in love on school parties while dancing “slow”.
It’s because this was a perfect version. Mariah may managed to create her own version and very successfully, yet perfect can never be less. She took a huge risk and hopefully she made it through.
That’s another version that i like as the original and it brings hope for a talented future…
I recently watched the movie, so
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Nice cover with a new twist on the song. Never heard of the movie but it looks like very over the top fun.
I don’t really keep up with movies and such these days but just in the last few weeks I’ve discovered that The Last of Us series used an old Linda Ronstadt song, She was… everywhere in her day and recording most types of music known to man. Also that the Barbie movie featured Indigo Girl’s Closer to Fine, that one of the Guardians of the Galaxy movies used Lake Shore Drive aka LSD and First Aid Kit had been featured in several games and least one movie. My Silver Lining remains my favorite from them. Guess those old songs aren’t as dead as I might have thought.
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And today an ad for the remake of Running Man pops up and they’re playing ELO’s Don’t Bring Me Down. Everything old is new again it seems.
ELO had a lot of catchy tunes in their day but as much as I like some of the older songs and movies at some point we need some new stuff.
Guess I should link something… First two’ish minutes Shakey tells how he got his name then does the one man band thing. Creative and catchy I thought
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It’s a thrill kill ride, troll gets the girl, just not like you’d think. I’ve seen it 5 times. I’d give it an 8.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbBbFH9fAg Been watching For All Mankind
The one and only Melissa Etheridge. Well, if you don’t count Bonnie Tyler. Or Rod Stewart…
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