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Originally Posted by Ghengis
I've been chuckling to myself over the past (close to) 50 years as I hear the same ol' tired lament at the dissing of the "new music". Started with the old high school gang that couldn't see past Jethro Tull and Led Zeppelin, but probably occurred back at the beginning of music when Thog and Moo-ac first banged a couple of sticks rhythmically on stretched hide instead of a rock.
Music being produced now is as good as it ever has been but people tend to be firmly entrenched in the nostalgia of their teens and early years, and the music that played as a soundtrack to that time.
lots to ***** about these days, but the new music seems to be alive and well, thank you very much  |
I'm somewhat guilty to be stuck in the late 1960's/early 1970's regarding Tull and Zep. Saw them both in concert 3 times. But I wouldn't compare Tull to Zep musically somewhat.
I was lucky to have parents who might not have been interested in everything I collected back then, but there were several things that they enjoyed, certain songs. Here's a few---
Distant Shores-Chad and Jeremy
Lady Godiva-Peter and Gordon
Reasons For Waiting-Jethro Tull (from the LP Stand Up)
Love Remembered-Focus (from the lp Focus III)
One of here favorite songs from my collection is "Give A Damn" by Spanky and Our Gang. I remember taking my mom to a doctors appointment in my '56 Ford and popped in Spanky and Our Gang's 8 track "Without Rhyme Or Reason". I told her I have the 45 at home where she could hear the lyrics a tad closer.---"
If you take the train with me, uptown to the misery of ghetto streets in morning light--" She played that song a couple times to digest all the lyrics, and later said "that's one of the best songs I have ever heard."
Take a couple minutes of your time and youtube that song. It came out around August of 1968. It carries a message!
The Dutch band Focus doesn't get much on the music forum but the idea of Tijs van Leer yodeling between some killer guitar riffs by guitarist Jan Akkerman was certainly different, even for prog fans. You get away from Focus III and their lp that came out six months earlier (Moving Waves) and even around that time both of these guys were cranking out some interesting solo lp's, my favorites from Akkerman would be "Tabernakkel" and from Van Leer "Introspection".
I love progressive-from Bo Hansson to Van der Graaf Generator to King Crimson to Barclay James Harvest to the Strawbs.--which reminds me---my dad drove a truck for a living for almost a half century, was a union man, paid his dues religiously. One night I played for him my 8 track of "Part Of The Union" by the Strawbs from their 1973 lp "Bursting At The Seams.'
goes like this--"as a union man I'm wise, to the lies of the company spies, and I don't get fooled by the factory rules 'cause I always read between the lines."He loved it! He still liked old country tunes the best, I remember saying to him a few months before he passed--I've got a tune for YOU! And I played him Duane Eddy's version of "Paladin." (from the tv show Have Gun Will Travel." I remember him lighting up a huge smile, saying, man, the guy who's playing saxophone in the middle of that song, it makes the song right there!"
It depends on the genre. I find good in a lot of different types of music. As I'm pushing 70, I don't buy as much as I used to, but still get around to buying a combo of 35-40 cd's and lp's a year.
Ok, I'll shut up now. One more word-Listen to more music and lass talk radio, you'll live longer."
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