Which songs do you members over 40...and then members under 40 (page 2)

berylblue

Englishman,

Which album for the Fairport Number? The first husband loved them.

Yes, Bohemian Rhapsody. Amazing.

Mulan

Most Beach Boys songs and the Bee Gees.

I really love Broadway show tunes too. Oklahoma, Carousel, Showboat, Sound of Music, South Pacific, etc.

Englishman

Hi Beryl,

In the UK, Matty Groves was featured in a compilation album simply called "Fairport Convention". The US album featuring that song is "Liege and Liefe".

Matty Groves is a long track, the first half is vocal, the second half a stunning instrumental requiring lot's of bass and volume.

Englishman.

czarofmischief

I think, that if my job were to give someone the best four songs of all time -

Cat's in the Cradle - reveals the commplexity of our lives and the difficulty of our relationships.

Follow the Warrior King - Just Kidding.

Hallelujah - by Rufus Wainwright - love, religion, devotion, helplessness... it's all there.

I love Rock'n Roll - by Joan Jett. If you want a brief summation of why Western civilization collapsed, this pretty much does it.

CZAR

stillajwexelder

Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles -- Sounds of Silence -- Simon and Garfunkel (I am over 40)

hillary_step

There now follows a musical rant on behalf of the Hillary Step Party.

When the record companies were taken over by slick young things who manufactured 'music' and groomed dysfunctional teenagers to fit within a financial framework developed by accountants and marketing specialists , modern music developed a malevolent disease. Much popular music that I hear these days is just the musical equivalent of verbal dysentery and requires a good dose of chemical ingestion to even be tolerated. Regurgitated clones, uttering clueless phrases and playing riffs stolen from their betters.

Each generation feels that it has the monopoly on creativity but the fact is that far too much popular music is now a studio generated, pre-packaged and marketed by people who would, as some song-writer or the other once said , "eat their kids alive, for a Jaguar in the drive’.

I have no favorite songs, the choice is impossible to narrow down, but notable lyricists and some talented survivors of the singer / songwriter idiom from the past days of popular music whose music still inspires are, Joni Mitchell, Roy Harper, Bob Wyatt ( Soft Machine ) Bert Jansch, the dead Nick Drake, Arthur Lee, the dead Tim Buckley, Pete Sinfield, PFM, Richard Thompson ( ex Fairport ), Pye Hastings and the Sinclair brothers, and the dear, dead Laura Nyro, who all left behind an body of work that talentless parasites can feed on for many years to come.

Were I on a Desert Island, I would cherish as songs, Loerner & Lowe’s ‘Brigadoon’, the Clash playing ‘London Calling’, Doris Day & Andre Previn who together produced a stunning interpretation of some classic love songs, Joe Jackson ‘Breaking Us In Two’ and Joni Mitchells ‘Help Me’, ‘Hatfield And The North’ playing ‘Lobster In Cleavage Probe’, "Headmaster Ritual' by the Smiths, ‘American Roulette’ by Danny O’Keefe, one or two pieces by Moby. That’s this week anyway.

Thankfully Jazz music has emerged relatively unscathed from the succulent belching of the large record companies, I suspect because it needs something resembling a brain and more than one minutes concentration to be able to listen to it, though I have to admit, I was wrong once.

HS

berylblue

Hillary,great post.

I hate to belabor the point, but have you ever really listened to Al Stewart? Not his hits, his historical songs. They are amazing.

www.alstewart.com

justhuman

Most of them and I'm under 40

wednesday

I'm a Meat loaf fan. I have everything he's ever done. http://www.meatloaf-oifc.com/

in my 40's i became a groupie Met him, got his sig, got pic with him.

Bat out of hell being the mother of all songs.

he got a grammie for 'I'd do anything for love, but i won't do that". in 93.

He's got a new CD out , number four in Europe, "I couldn't have said it better". To be released in america on 9-23-03.

COMF

"God Only Knows" by the Beach Boys. An excellent example of how a very simple melody embellished with sentimental lyrics and outstanding vocals can become a classic.

Two comments: first, from the Beach Boys' reportoire, I feel that "Little Surfer Girl" is far superior to "God Only Knows" both melodically and vocally. As for the lyrics, well, that's the second comment.

"God Only Knows" reflects a stereotypical lover's stance in which the speaker asserts that all his being is wrapped up in the other person, without whom he would be nothing. Now, seriously... who wants a lover whose sole means of existence is parasitically sucking your energy, living vicariously through you, who brings nothing to the relationship other than fawning worship?

"If you should ever leave me
Though life would still go on, believe me
The world could show nothing to me
So what good would living do me?
God only knows what I'd be without you"

Actually, the intent of this posturing is not to declare the depth of one's love for the other person, but rather to establish an obligation on the part of the recipient: "My heart is in your hands; my life is dependent on you." Uh... no, thanks. I want a lover who is a whole person independently of me or anyone else; someone who is already enjoying life by herself and simply finds added pleasure in my company.

As for the lyrics to "Little Surfer Girl"-- I've always wanted to change that one section from

"In my woodie I will take you
Everywhere I go"

to...

<testosterone>
"With my woodie, I will take you
Where you want to go"
</testosterone>

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