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| The music of our lives by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 07/22/2015, 11:21am PDT | ||||
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| Music is important to many people because it affects us emotionally. (And as I write this various songs come up in my head to emphasize the points I'm thinking about. Songs can provoke sadness:
"I often stop and think of you especially, when the words of a love song, touch the very heart of me!" - Teddy Pendergrass, There'll Be Sad Songs. They can bring back good feelings: "He sings the songs that remind him of the good times, he sings the songs that remind him of the better times." - Chumbawumba, Tubthumping. And sometimes they can evoke memories from strangers, because they found a song silly or fun as well, such as the time I was in a Rite Aid drug store singing, and a couple of other guys I didn't know and had never seen before joined in: You got the hooch, Baby! You got the only sweetest thang in the world Let's get real, let's get heavy 'Till the water breaks the levy Let's get loose You got the hooch! - Everything, Hooch Songs tell stories, of things that were imagined, in short little tales (The Looking Glass, Brandy (You're a Fine Girl), Roger Whittaker, The Last Farewell, Michael Martin Murphey, Wildfire). They can be educational. such as the Schoolhouse Rock series that ran on ABC in the 1970s. They can be religious. And sometimes they can be out-and-out scandalous such as the series of incidents involving Two Live Crew's As Nasty as they Wanna Be which was so bad a court declared it obscene until that was overturned by a Federal Appeals Court. Gordon Lightfoot does an amazing story about what would be just some insurance company-owned ore freighter capsized in Lake Superior into a commercially successful ballad, Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I once wrote a response to an 11-year-old about her political opinions, telling her how she's innocent and doesn't know much. How she'll listen to various music now, think that the stuff her parents listened to - which is probably the music of the 1970, 1980s and 1990s - is boring and her parents probably think the stuff she listens to is tasteless and vulgar, and when she grows up and has kids, she won't understand how they can listen to the crap they choose and it's nothing like the "good" music she listened to as a teenager. It is the music of our lives that affect us in many ways, some of which I like, and other people possibly hate, while there's other music that other people like that I think sounds like someone using a live cat to bang on trash can lids. To each, his or her own. "Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs. And what's wrong with that?" - Paul McCartney and Wings, Silly Love Songs. |
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