Posts Tagged ‘Rock and Roll’

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Grateful Dead – "Touch of Grey" (1987)

2010/06/19


G sometimes tires of people in general. I know this because she'll yell at them from within the car, even if the windows are closed and there isn't any way they could possibly hear the reasons they are bad and why they should will themselves out of existance. I'm not talking suicide, just *poof* you're there one moment, you're gone the next. Unfortunately it frequently sounds more like she is yelling at me even though I am sitting quietly and tired from a long week. It is no wonder I had a dream last night that we had decided to move to a house in the forest, not another person or house in sight. Deer came to greet us at the windows. I could see the benefits but even in my dream I knew I would miss our old house, and even some sense of being part of a community in some way. Mostly I was lamenting that the "new" house was actually in need of a lot of work and investment. Ceilings coated with wallpaper that disintegrated at the touch. Plaster help up by tape. I knew it had to be a dream though because the smell was of mold and old people. G would never have accepted those smells. And yet perhaps it was not a dream about moving at all.

Perhaps it was just us, getting older. Stiffer and less patient with a touch of grey.

That was all I had to say
And it's all right
I will get by
I will survive
We will get by
We will survive


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Gary U.S. Bonds – "New Orleans" (1960)

2010/06/04


After an intense thunder and lightning storm this morning, the moisture and the heat are in the air. It always reminds me of that time I visited New Orleans. Thought I'd share this song to match that feeling unique feeling in the air.


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Bob Seger – "Old Time Rock and Roll" (1978)

2010/06/01


This song was following me around yesterday. I heard it in the car on the way to work. Then in a bus. Later in a store. It is stalking me! It wants to be played!


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Click here for more info on Bob Seger – Stranger in Town – "Old Time Rock and Roll".

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The Greg Kihn Band – "The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em)" (1981)

2010/05/13


I've been wearing a big dumb grin the past couple weeks. You would think I'd still be wearing it but today, on my first full day after the "break up" (with my job of almost 7 years… for those of you just catching up). But no. Here I am on my much needed vacation kind of pooped and saddened. Sure it is nice to be relieved of the responsibility, but it is kind of sad too. I've left a boat load of people I've known for years. I have left things I created I use to call "my babies". I have left a place where I have spent a lot of time and effort. Ah well, maybe the sun will come out and hang in the sky for a spell.


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Click here for more info on The Greg Kihn Band – Rockihnroll – "The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em)".

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Neil Diamond – "Play Me" (1972)

2010/05/05


I woke up to Neil Diamond's "Play Me" in a loop in my head. In particular the part…

For I've been lonely
In need of someone

It just so happened last night G and I had discussed some people we know who are in unfortunate relationships. These people stay in them even though they recognize the relationship is not what they want. I put the two together… the song lyrics and the conversation last night. The fear of loneliness or rejection may be the driving force that keeps these people where they are. Perhaps it even extends beyond the spouse/significant other too? Perhaps fear of social consequences, financial consequences, or even just "change" are keeping these people locked in place. The necessary changes that appear obvious to everyone else are less easy or obvious to those in the center. But still, change must occur or else they will be prisoners of their relationships, possible for the rest of their lives. Were they to succeed, perhaps they would just find another equally unfortunate relationship?

I know that isn't the message Neil intended for this song, but it is the caution and the truth I bring to you. That "need" many have for a relationship may lead them to a place they do not wish to be. I suppose the question for those on the outside is, do you try to console and counsel? If so, for how long? Or do you stand by and watch? When do you give up? When do you walk away when you've tried to help someone by they seem to refuse to help themselves? A test of friendship I suppose.


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Click here for more info on Neil Diamond – Moods – "Play Me".

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Crosby, Stills & Nash – "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" (1969)

2010/05/02


I kept waking up last night with a different Crosby, Stills, & Nash (& sometimes Young) song stuck in my head. I must be going crazy, in a "feels like home" kind of way. Sounds almost nice.


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Elton John – "Your Song" (1970)

2010/04/22


I'd like to dedicate this one to The Illustrious G. I'm still chuckling from the other day when she was yelling at me about the laundry baskets. An insufficient number of baskets were in the basement to receive the clean laundry because I had moved some of the empty ones upstairs to collect the dirty laundry. I went out the next day and purchased three new shiny baskets to alleviate her laundry woes. What is funny about it is later when I said she didn't need to "yell" at me about it she said "I was not yelling… I was explaining loudly." Too funny!

PS: If you haven't heard it, the cover version from the movie Moulin Rouge, sung by Ewan McGregor, is well worth a listen!


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