Variations on a Theme
The theme is timeless, so most readers can probably identify.
Using a coin as metaphor:
Obverse.
Reverse.
On Edge.
Maybe there was something in the water back in the early/mid 1970s.
Category: Pointless blather, Who knows
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I love ya, Babe, but my duffle bag is alwasys packed.
They just don’t write them like that anymore. The stuff today has little melody, little thought behind the repetitive words and leaves you with nothing to think about or relate to. These songs you offered were the kind that people could identify with from their lives. Must have been something in the water back then…you’re darned right.
Nice to have one more listen to Lightfoot.
“Maybe there was something in the water back in the early/mid 1970s”
Its not the water, its the times. people actually hung out together back then, not just texted each other. there was interaction and discussion among friends and for the first time rebelling in their own unique creative way with music that actually spanned generations( and still does today).
while the internet and stuff has made kids better at finding answers, they have lost the ability to ask the right questions. i wonder what it will be like in another 40 years …
yeh, except they are so brainwashed and ignorant, they don’t even LOOK for answers!
There was SOMETHING in something back then. I believe we have an affinity for music from ‘our’ time, frequently believing it to be superior to contemporary music. I feel that way, believing music of the 60s and 70s to be better than today’s offerings.
Lightfoot: If Children Had Wings; I Heard You Talking In Your Sleep; On Susan’s Floor.
Fogelberg: Sometimes A Song; Believe In Me; The Last Nail
Croce: Working’ At The Car Wash Blues; Operator; Box Number 10 (What an overlooked gem!); Photographs And Memories; SO much more.
Meatloaf: So much
My music must develop and tell a story. IMO, much of today’s stuff fails to do that. I gotta have a story
Wish I could comment but am still hung up in the 1950’S music.
I find it hugely amusing that in the ’60s anything before the Beatles was dismissed as outdated and totally irrelevant. Nowadays the same people think their 65 year old music is holy writ. Makes you think soon someone will try to canonize “Can’t Touch This” or “Cop Killa”.
That was true then, but people have ‘discovered’ Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight and Roberta Flack, never mind the other iconic female singers of the 1950, 1960s and 1970s and their music, like Cilla Black and Marianne Faithful. And Percy Sledge’s rendition of ‘Trey a Little Tenderness’ will never grow old.