Okay---been listening to a couple Katy perry songs. Also, two oldies by The Critters and two by The Cowsills. Yup.
Okay---been listening to a couple Katy perry songs. Also, two oldies by The Critters and two by The Cowsills. Yup.
It's been a few weeks since I've had time to explore old favorites but man, youtube doesn't disappoint. Who doesn't love The Cars and The Police? At least if you were a teen in the 80's....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJwTcvO5Jbc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aENX1Sf3fgQ
OMG. And now the Little River Band and Supertramp... This evening is golden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIle_6Vzm5A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kln_bIndDJg
"Watch what they say. They'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal, oh won't you sign up for me ,we could be so acceptable, respectable, oh presentable, a vegetable."
Breakfast in America might be in my top five or ten albums or all times.
"what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" Mary Oliver
I agree completely. And I absolutely love the cover art. It's such a funky but awesome concept of what manhattan looks like. I've never looked up who the artist was but they were seriously genius.Originally Posted by Rogar
Okay--I been online, listening to Jimi Hendrix rendition of All Along The Watchtower. Also several covers of it, and reading some background on the record. You kids prolly don't like that one, because it really is not a folk song, even though it is original by Bob Dylan. But yeah--I have a 45 rp. Of it that I bought at Penneys in Fairbanks in 1968, that I wore out, listening to it with headphones in the language lab at school. Yup.
Yeah--Even in the quietest moments by Rodger of Supertramp is my favorite of that band. Yup.
I spent some time at our local hospital Monday waiting for DH to have his colonoscopy. I settled into a pleasant light-filled space outside the cafeteria with my (excellent) book. A man (I believe a hospital volunteer) came in and started playing the piano. He was really good. There were only about 6 of us in the room, so it was kind of like a private concert. Then he started playing Christmas music. I loathe and despise Christmas music, so my first inclination was to leave, but I was comfy sitting there with my book, so I stayed and it wasn't so bad. I think the fact that it was just instrumental with no vocals made it more tolerable, no horrible Brenda Lee or Peggy Lee or whoever she is/was. He also played the Charlie Brown Christmas song - I think it is called Linus and Lucy - and I actually like that one. There is nothing really Christmassy about it.
Rosa, I am the same way about Christmas music although I can tolerate it better than you, and even look forward to certain pieces. But I cannot stand vocals of popular Christmas music.
I like popular instrumental classics, things performed by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, for instance. But spare me dumb vocal Christmas songs.
Vocal music by trained church choirs are a different animal and can be wonderful.
that Charlie Brown song is terrible. In fact, I was in the goodwill store yesterday mulling over something that took some time, and that damn song was playing in an arrangement that seemed deliberately slow and off key. It seems to have only eight bars that are repeated over and over in exactly the same way. Oh God, it was awful.
IL: That is pretty funny that we have similar feelings about Christmas music, and one of the ones I find the most tolerable, you find the least tolerable.
This is my absolute favorite by Mojo Nixon and the Toadliquors. It actually makes me feel, dare I say it, a bit merry!
https://youtu.be/Ouk6kBtXy60?si=71bDIH8JgxRJ2pkw
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