Remember the songs that were "so profound" years and decades ago?

[Archae]

"Horse With No Name"
"Spirit In The Sky"
"Dust In The Wind"

etc...

Nowadays we laugh at them.

Any others you can think of?

[cyberswede]

1. Aw...I sing along with all those! Loudly. :)

But seriously, I'm a prog rock fan - all prog rock songs seem like they take themselves way too seriously - like they're trying really hard to be deep. It's all good fun.

[Archae]

2. Exactly my point.

They do try to take themselves too seriously, sometimes to an absurd level.

That's why nowadays we laugh at them.

Like "Horse With No Name."

"...The ocean is a desert..."

[cyberswede]

3. ...but it has the perfect disguise up above...

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. Don't forget "YES".

I was in college when everybody got "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" by Rick Wakeman.


The one good think EL&P did was steal "The Great Gate of Kiev" from Moussorgsky and distribute it to a wider audience.

[pink-o]

10. OMG! I owned that Rick Wakeman LP....

and also the Jon Anderson one: Olias of Sunhillow. Don't even TRY to pretend you don't know that one, Manifestor!!!!

[nolabear]

15. We were clearly hanging out in the same geekdom.

And pot-dom.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

17. Huh?? Dude, please refresh my memory!

[pink-o]

68. Heh! WTF did we do B4 YouTube and google?

http://m.

[azurnoir]

50. ah but let's not forget

"Close to the Edge" I've read that Philosophy and/or Theology students have written thesis on wtf that song is about

[Arugula Latte]

5. Was "Seasons in the Sun" ever taken seriously?

Because, if it was, that stage didn't last long.

[Archae]

6. That song was pretty much an extension...

Of the 50's "dead teenager" genre.

[Smarmie Doofus]

51. Teen Angel.....hoooooooooo.... can you hear me?

My big sister and her friends used to act that song out with gestures.

Funniest thing I ever saw.

[Smarmie Doofus]

27. Only by people that also loved " Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro.

And Honey, I miss you.
And I'm being good.
And I'd love to be with you,
If only I could.


Now THEM'S lyrics.

[Archae]

37. Don't forget "Wildfire"

And the Dopey Brothers...I mean Doobie Brothers, "Jesus Is Just All Right With Me"

[Smarmie Doofus]

43. But Wildfire had that great piano riff intro.

That *made* the song.

Also... the lyrics weren't quite down to the level of Yum-Yum Yummie.

OTOH... what was that song about anyway? Girl goes nuts cause her horse ran away?

Oh the pain. People in Iraq/Syria/Afghanistan and half the developing world should have the luxury of knowing that kind of pain.

[Archae]

46. I always think of what my Grandpa said about horses...

And he was a farmer who grew up using horses.

"Horses are born stupid and they never get any better."

[Gabby Hayes]

85. Forgive me, but how about "Watching Scotty Grow"

[Archae]

110. Never thought of as "profound."

Always knew that one was simply stupid.

[Tom Ripley]

7. "The Sounds of Silence"

great sounding song with really horrible lyrics

[Arugula Latte]

23. I loved that song when I was a kid.

I felt very important when I listened to it. Now it just seems like a 3 a.m. dorm-talk kind of song.

[BainsBane]

28. I disagree

I see it as about the alienation of modern society.

[Smarmie Doofus]

44. I'm wit' you. "And the people bowed and prayed/

To the neon gods they made."

[Tom Kitten]

73. Oh! Speaking of "The Sounds Of Silence"...

How about the song from that album we had to listen to over and over again in sixth grade English class in order to interpet the lyrics because they were "meaningful", "A Most Peculiar Man"?

"He was a most peculiar man.
He lived all alone within a house,
Within a room, within himself,
A most peculiar man.

He had no friends, he seldom spoke
And no one in turn ever spoke to him,
'Cause he wasn't friendly and he didn't care
And he wasn't like them.
Oh, no! he was a most peculiar man.

He died last Saturday.
He turned on the gas and he went to sleep
With the windows closed so he'd never wake up
To his silent world and his tiny room;

And Mrs. Riordan says he has a brother somewhere
Who should be notified soon.
And all the people said, "What a shame that he's dead,
But wasn't he a most peculiar man?"

Yes, sad but profound? I guess it could have been considered so at the time because it was a pop song but people have been writing and expressing about angst, isolation, and alienation for a long, long time.

[Tom Ripley]

76. Oh yeah, the textbook always paired it with Edward Arlington Robinson's "Richard Cory"

"Eleanor Rigby" showed up a couple of pages later

[Smarmie Doofus]

106. Richard Corey - Simon and Garfunkel

I believe Paul's mom was an English teacher.

[Arugula Latte]

124. Paul Simon was rockin' the Caesar haircut back then.

[lastlib]

88. It'd make a GREAT heavy-metal song, though!

(IMHO......)

. .

[nomorenomore08]

111. *ahem*

[malthaussen]

112. Damn, excellent cover.

And I don't even like metal.

-- Mal

[LWolf]

121. No.

That one is as relevant today as it was when I was a kid.

[Art_from_Ark]

8. Yummy, Yummy, Yummy (I've Got Love In My Tummy)

One of the most profound songs of its or any other age.
Absolutely.
Positively.
Most definitely.

[Rhiannon12866]

9. Rice is nice

That's what they say...

[ConcernedCanuk]

32. Reminds me of Chewy, Chewy around the same time.

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still play it on my 12 string, as well as Yummy Yummy - - loved the chorus -

"ooh i love to kiss her love to hold her love to miss her love to scold her love to love her like i do.

oh little chewy don't know what you're doing to me but you're doing to me what i want you to. "

ya right . . .

I know what she was doin . . . .

CC

[Art_from_Ark]

35. No doubt she was doing what the guys from 1910 Fruitgum Company

wanted their girls to do in 1-2-3 Red Light

It doesn't get much more profound than this

Every time I try to prove I love you,
1, 2, 3 red light, you stop me,
Baby you ain't right to stop me,
1, 2, 3 red light, you stop me.
Every time I make a move to love you,
1, 2, 3 red light, you stop me,
Baby every night you stop me,
1, 2, 3 red light.

Stop the game,
You've got too much to lose,
If you stop me again,
That's when we might end
So please don't refuse.
(Please don't refuse)

Every time I make a move to love you,
1, 2, 3 red light, don't stop me,
Baby you ain't right to stop me,
1, 2, 3 red light, don't stop me.
Every time I try to prove I love you,
1, 2, 3 red light, don't stop me,
When I know I'm right, don't stop me,
1, 2, 3 red light.
Every time I make a move to love you,
1, 2, 3 red light, don't stop me,
Baby you ain't right to stop me,
1, 2, 3, red light, don?t stop me.

[Tom Kitten]

74. Au Contrare Mon Frere!

"Sticky Sticky" by The 1910 Fruitgum Company is unabashedly hands down MUCH more profound!

Consider the lyrics...

"Sticky sticky"

continue until fadeout...

[Art_from_Ark]

81. Oh, my gosh! THAT must have been the song my grandmother was talking about!

Back in the late '60s, she had to drive to a medical clinic that was in a city a couple of hours away. While driving, she said she was listening to the radio when she heard a song that just had one word in it, repeated over and over, which nearly put her into a trance.

[pink-o]

11. Nights in White Satin...

or just about anything by the Moody Blues. They were trippin' all the time in the 70s, and the lyrics were super profound until the acid wore off!!

[nolabear]

14. LOL! Posted below before I saw yours.

[Archae]

16. The funniest parts of Moody Blues albums was the poetry.

Can't help but wonder about what they were when writing that screwy poetry...

[Art_from_Ark]

20. Probably the same thing that the Beatles

were when writing "I Am The Walrus", "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", and "Strawberry Fields Forever"

[Archae]

38. John wrote the "Walrus" song...

After reading that a college professor was using his lyrics in his class finding "meanings" in them.

[Art_from_Ark]

41. I think I saw a nuanced reference to "elementary penguin, singing Hare Krishna"

in a Bloom County comic strip once, when they tried to rescue Bill the Cat from the Bagwhan Shreesh Rajneesh's compound

[Archae]

48. The Beatles had all sorts of inspirations for their songs.

Places in Liverpool.

John's first son making a silly drawing, "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds."

They used to follow Ringo around with a notebook, the screwy things he'd say became songs.
Like after a long recording session one night, Ringo said "It's been a hard day's night."

[liberaltrucker]

22. Trust me, the acid never wore off.

[Nevernose]

25. They were the inspiration for "This amp goes up to 11"

I swear to god, I saw it in a 70s era documentary about them.

[Phentex]

12. We thought Hotel California was SO COOL!

I still like Dust in the Wind!

[nolabear]

13. Are you kidding? I listened to The Moody Blues.

Everything they ever did was like that.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

18. The Moody Blues were GOOD!! I still have this vinyl --Long Distance Voyager

In Your Wildest Dreams:

[Art_from_Ark]

21. Twilight Time was pretty cool, too

[pink-o]

69. I loved all of Days of Future Past!

It's funny how so many 70s bands are revered, yet the Moodies just kinda seem dated or passé (in a hallucinogenic way!). Yet Mike Malloy uses Story in your Eyes for his show, and that sounds amazing! Justin Hayward was always the best songwriter of the lot.

[ConcernedCanuk]

33. Used to have "In Search of the Lost Chord" LP

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miss all my old vinyl.

CC

[lastlib]

91. I still have all of 'em up through 'Seventh Sojourn'......

(Now if I could just get a decent turntable.........)

[whistler162]

19. Ah yes...... a song for its generation

[femmocrat]

24. How about "Eve of Destruction"?

Barry McGuire, 1965.

Ugh.

[Smarmie Doofus]

26. Someone got the idea that if you top-40-ed a Dylan-style...

... apocalyptic folk-rock type protest song you could make a bundle. And they were right.

But *anyone* could have written that song. ANYONE.

And it didn't even have a POV... it was just "topical".

[Arugula Latte]

29. How About "One Tin Soldier" (The Legend of Billy Jack)

[Archae]

40. GAWD, I detest that song...

And those stupid "Billy Jack" movies.

I thought Oliver Stone was full of himself, until I saw an interview with McLaughlin.

[RebelOne]

42. GAWD, I love that song... n/t

[Tom Kitten]

75. Hey! That gives me a great idea!

Wouldn't it be great if Oliver Stone did a remake of all the Billy Jack movies, rolled up into one three and a half hour epic of quick cutting incomprehensible mindless violence, ending with a shot of the surviving cast members getting together and boogieing to a hip hop version of "Give Peace A Chance"?

[Archae]

78. It would be more credible than any of Stone's hysteric...I mean "historic" movies.

[Gabby Hayes]

86. Four Jacks and a Jill and bottle of Pepto

You took a colored ribbon from out of the sky
And taught me how to use it as the years went by
To tie up all your problems and make them look neat
And then to sell them to the people in the street

Master Jack, you are now wanted in 29 states.

[sharp_stick]

57. God that brings back memories

My Dad was friends with one of the members of the band "The Original Caste" who originally recorded that song back in about 1970. I think his friend was the guy on the bottom right with the moustache on the album reverse cover as the clip starts but I'm not sure.

I remember when I was a young teenager "discovering" this bit of cheese and thinking it a really profound piece of music. I tried to explain to my parents why I was so musically intelligent while they wiled away their time doing mostly useless things like work. Dad just smiled and left the room, he came back with the album, the liner was covered with signatures from the band and personal notes about all the time they spent way back when.

I think that was when I first realized my parents actually had a life before my brother and I came along.

Although it's still really cheesy I think that Dixie Lee of The Original Caste made it sound better than Jinx Dawson (Coven) on the Billy Jack version.

[Arugula Latte]

65. That's a cool trip down memory lane.

[sharp_stick]

90. Sure was

I'd forgotten all about that.

[lame54]

108. Brilliant song with a moral that will live forever

[applegrove]

30. "Brothers In Arms" by Dire Straights

Hey, I still love it.

[nomorenomore08]

36. Nothing wrong with that one.

Better than the heavy-handed (and ultimately misconstrued) satire of "Money for Nothing."

[Arctic Dave]

31. I want a new drug - Huey Lewis and the News.

Mind blowing.

[ConcernedCanuk]

34. Herman's Hermits

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"I am Hennery the 8th I am . . . . "

CC

[Art_from_Ark]

118. That was a fun song

Our music teacher even taught it to us in 4th or 5th grade.

"Second verse, same as the first..."

[nomorenomore08]

39. From my own time.... you can't really beat Counting Crows for faux-profundity...

[Chan790]

45. Drugs. Drugs are the cause of this.

A McDonald's menu seems profound when you're on the good shit.

[Mr.Bill]

47. This one is still valid today.

Universal soldier

[olddots]

49. My inner sound track was Soul and blues based

Strange for a white suburban goober but it still is .

[Still Blue in PDX]

52. In the Year 2525

Earlier, Turn Turn Turn. I still remember one Sunday morning visiting church with a friend after a Saturday night sleepover, and when the sermon mentioned Ecclesiastes I thought, "Whoa, they took that from that song!"

Within You, Without You

Harper Valley PTA

Ode to Billy Joe - I still don't really know what that is about.

Son of a Preacher Man (which I thought was Son of a Creature Man)

[AnneD]

53. Won't get fooled again....

Now made even more phrophetic and profound. And I don't find it funny anymore.

We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgment of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again

[Tommy_Carcetti]

58. There's an old saying in Tennessee. I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee

Fool me once, shame on....shame on you. Fool me....you can't get fooled again!

[Smarmie Doofus]

54. Two words: Rod McKuen.

Yikes. That whole era. Late 60's into early 70's. Everyone was a "poet".

Or thought they were.

Reminds me of what Fran Leibowitz said about writers: Just because someone CAN write a book, doesn't mean they SHOULD write a book.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

55. I don't know. Some of them hold up well.

Dylan, for example. Simon and Garfunkel. And others as well.

[HereSince1628]

61. Some of them stand up very well, others seem to rely on personal preference

which really shouldn't be terribly surprising...my guess is something under 5% of compositions really hold up over time for many generations.

[hamsterjill]

56. Down on the Corner!

Willie and the poor boys are playin; bring a nickel tap your feet!


Ah, Credence and John!!!

[Phentex]

59. always thought they said You Don't Need a Pinhead, Just to Hang Around...

I can never hear it any other way.

[hamsterjill]

60. Hee hee, and I always thought it was the "Pope" boys!!!

Now I have the song in my head!!!! LOL

[HughBeaumont]

62. Anything by Alanis Morrissette.

Fucking awful music paraded as angsty genius. Most annoying voice of the 1990s next to Ed Roland from Collective Soul.

[Arugula Latte]

104. Good one.

She was incredibly annoying. I hate hate HATED that "one hand in my pocket" song.

[Liberal Veteran]

63. Angie Baby.

It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.

[Phentex]

64. OooooooohhhHooooooo...

I still like that one!!!

[Liberal Veteran]

66. I like the vocals.

But the song was kinda spooky then, but not so much anymore.

[kwassa]

67. Someone left my cake out in the rain.

you know the rest.

Spring was never waiting for us, girl It ran one step ahead As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages And were pressed in love's hot, fevered iron Like a striped pair of pants
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark All the sweet, green icing flowing down Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it 'Cause it took so long to bake it And I'll never have that recipe again, oh no
I recall the yellow cotton dress Foaming like a wave On the ground around your knees The birds like tender babies in your hands And the old men playing checkers, by the trees
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark All the sweet, green icing flowing down Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it 'Cause it took so long to bake it And I'll never have that recipe again, oh no

[pink-o]

70. Written by Jim Webb

Who also gave us the grave profundity of Up, up and Away.

Which came out around the same time as Windmills of you Mind.

Dang, everyone was on some excellent shit back then!

[malthaussen]

113. I never could interpret that song as anything other than...

... an extended exercise in satire, especially with the over-the-top delivery.

But hell, we're talking about a period when Jonathan Livingston Seagull was considered profound.

-- Mal

[Art_from_Ark]

119. I absolutely love that song

especially the instrumental part towards the end. Good memories of the skating rink...

[Demoiselle]

71. "Horse With No Name"....

As a radio DJ remarked after playing the song (in Philly, years ago) "Yo, Buddy...you alone, you got nothin' better to do...NAME THE HORSE!!!"
It made me laugh at the time..

[bluedigger]

72. How about "Time Passages"?

Pretty much Al Stewart's entire body of work would qualify, really.

[Tom Kitten]

77. I'm surprised no one's mentioned The Doors

Some songs are classic, some songs are, frankly, kinda banal...some are in-between and some just make you scratch your head, like "The Soft Parade", which in my opinion starts out great but I get lost as to what's going on the last part (this is the trip - this is the best part of the trip) and it having any connection to the beginning...


When I was back there in seminary school
There was a person there
Who put forth the proposition
That you can petition the Lord with prayer
Petition the lord with prayer
Petition the lord with prayer
You cannot petition the lord with prayer!

Can you give me sanctuary
I must find a place to hide
A place for me to hide

Can you find me soft asylum
I can't make it anymore
The Man is at the door

Peppermint, miniskirts, chocolate candy
Champion sax and a girl named Sandy
There's only four ways to get unraveled
One is to sleep and the other is travel, da da
One is a bandit up in the hills
One is to love your neighbor 'till
His wife gets home

Catacombs
Nursery bones
Winter women
Growing stones
Carrying babies
To the river

Streets and shoes
Avenues
Leather riders
Selling news
The monk bought lunch

Ha ha, he bought a little
Yes, he did
Woo!
This is the best part of the trip
This is the trip, the best part
I really like
What'd he say?
Yeah!
Yeah, right!
Pretty good, huh
Huh!
Yeah, I'm proud to be a part of this number

Successful hills are here to stay
Everything must be this way
Gentle streets where people play
Welcome to the Soft Parade

All our lives we sweat and save
Building for a shallow grave
Must be something else we say
Somehow to defend this place
Everything must be this way
Everything must be this way, yeah

The Soft Parade has now begun
Listen to the engines hum
People out to have some fun
A cobra on my left
Leopard on my right, yeah

The deer woman in a silk dress
Girls with beads around their necks
Kiss the hunter of the green vest
Who has wrestled before
With lions in the night

Out of sight!
The lights are getting brighter
The radio is moaning
Calling to the dogs
There are still a few animals
Left out in the yard
But it's getting harder
To describe sailors
To the underfed

Tropic corridor
Tropic treasure
What got us this far
To this mild equator?

We need someone or something new
Something else to get us through, yeah, c'mon

Callin' on the dogs
Callin' on the dogs
Oh, it's gettin' harder
Callin' on the dogs
Callin' in the dogs
Callin' all the dogs
Callin' on the gods

You gotta meet me
Too late, baby
Slay a few animals
At the crossroads
Too late
All in the yard
But it's gettin' harder
By the crossroads
You gotta meet me
Oh, we're goin', we're goin great
At the edge of town
Tropic corridor
Tropic treasure
Havin' a good time
Got to come along
What got us this far
To this mild equator?
Outskirts of the city
You and I
We need someone new
Somethin' new
Somethin' else to get us through
Better bring your gun
Better bring your gun
Tropic corridor
Tropic treasure
We're gonna ride and have some fun

When all else fails
We can whip the horse's eyes
And make them sleep
And cry"

Can Anybody help explain this song?

[Archae]

79. I can explain the entire song.

I know a guy who used to be a roadie for a lot of west coast 60's and 70's singers and groups.

He told me Jim Morrison was sober about 10% of the time.
Even then he was a total asshole.

My friend told me he never saw Morrison perform, without doing something.
Usually booze or speed.

[Tom Kitten]

80. that would explain a lot

poor Ray Manzarek, who died recently, it seems to me a lot of his latter post Doors career consisted of him going on the road interpeting the poetry of Jim Morrison.

[WCGreen]

82. Afternoon Delight...

I was landscaping at the time and had a Mrs. Robinson thing happening...

[Arugula Latte]

98. Call me crazy, but I think that one might have some sexual overtones to it.

I could be just reading into it, though.

[Archae]

99. Ok, you're crazy...

And that song is definitely about getting some afternoon nookie.

[Arugula Latte]

100. I always thought "rubbing sticks and stones together makes the sparks ignite"

were some of the filthiest lyrics ever in a popular radio-played song.

[Archae]

101. Hey, difficult to really top this one...

I have heard it on a hard rock station.

[Arugula Latte]

102. I think I need a shower now after that dirty little song.

[Archae]

103. A cold shower!

[Quantess]

83. How about musicians, or entire bands, that (IMHO) don't sound like anything special today?

I know I'm about to get flamed for this: Although I like classic rock in general, I do not understand the hype surrounding Bob Dylan, or Peter, Paul & Mary, or Joan Baez, or the Grateful Dead, along with a few others.

I do not "laugh at them" but I would not choose to listen to them, either.

[Gabby Hayes]

84. Johnny, John Fred and Norman

Chances are 'cause I wear a silly grin
The moment you come into view,

When I die and they lay me to rest
Gonna go to the place that's the best
When I lay me down to die
Goin' up to the spirit in the sky

Judy in disguise, well that's what you are
Lemonade pie with a brand new car.
Cantalope eyes come to me tonight
Judy in disguise
with glasses.

[Gabby Hayes]

87. Frank Zappa once claimed this was one of his favorite groups

Presenting The Shaggs!

My Pal Foot Foot
My pal's name is Foot Foot
He always likes to roam
My pal's name is Foot Foot
I never find him home

I go to his house
Knock at his door
People come out and say
Foot Foot don't live here no more

My pal Foot Foot
Always likes to roam
My pal Foot Foot
Now he has no home


Go ahead, you know the rest.......

[lastlib]

89. "Scarborough Fair/Canticle"--S & G

(never could figure out what all those spices had to do with anything, though......WTF means "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme"??)

[panader0]

92. Get Together by The Youngbloods

"Love is but a song we sing
fears the way we die
you can make the mountains ring
or make the angels cry....."

Good old profound hippie song.
I also liked "Bitches Brew" by Miles Davis back then.
And any old blues

[Archae]

94. I love what happened to the Youngbloods when they were going to be on the Carson show.

They were griping about every damn thing until Johnny Carson walked up to them and told to wipe their noses and go home.

[Nye Bevan]

93. Charlene: "I've never been to me".

"I've been undressed by kings, and I've seen some things...."

[Arugula Latte]

96. Just shoot me before I hear that one again.

[Myrina]

95. Genesis: Another Day in Paradise, Bruce Hornsby: That's Just the Way It Is

Yes: I've seen All Good People

[Arugula Latte]

97. Dare I say it? "Blowin' in the Wind"

[WCGreen]

105. Some Velvet Morning...

[Arugula Latte]

116. "Some velvet morning when I'm straight / I'm gonna open up your gate"

[sinkingfeeling]

107. "Blown in the Wind", "How Many Roads Must a Man Walk Down", and "Leaving

on a Jet Plane".

[kwassa]

117. Two of your examples are the same song.

probably one of the first anti-war songs in modern music. Dylan was first in most things. Peter, Paul and Mary did a popular version of the song, and also sang "Leaving on a Jet Plane" which is just a love song, really.

"Blowin' In The Wind" by Bob Dylan

How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

[Art_from_Ark]

120. That song still makes me teary-eyed

[kwassa]

123. I think it is a great song.

the perfect song at the perfect moment. A game changer.

[ConcernedCanuk]

125. I play that on my 12 string

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and I can get teary-eyed over that while I'm playing, as well as some other songs like Cat Stevens "Father and Son" -

"Angie" (I forget the author) -

"If my love could be a flower" by John Hollick back in the late 70's . .

and more,

including some I wrote -

"The love in your heart" is one I wrote,

another is "They're putting me away" (jail)

(A love letter/poem written by me for a fellow inmate to send to his girlfriend I put to music when I got out)

8 years of piano lessons as a youth, guitar I learned on my own

Place I just bought is too small for a full sized piano, will get myself a double keyboard electric organ soon - separate speakers and base foot pedals - had 2 electric organs in the past.

Gonna rock on!!

Yeah, I like my music.

CC

[opiate69]

109. It's only recently occurred to me just how abjectly stupid "Rocket Man"s lyrics are...

I mean.. I always kinda knew they were a bit, well... "70s"... but sweet Jeebus...

She packed my bags last night, pre-flight
Zero hour, nine a.m.
And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then

I miss the Earth so much, I miss my wife
It's lonely out in space
On such a timeless flight

And I think it's gonna be a long, long time ‘til touch down brings me round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home
Oh no, no, no, I'm a rocket man
Rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone

And I think it's gonna be a long, long time ‘til touch down brings me round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home
Oh no, no, no, I'm a rocket man
Rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone

Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it's cold as hell
And there's no one there to raise them if you did

And all this science, I don't understand
It's just my job five days a week
A rocket man, a rocket man

And I think it's gonna be a long, long time ‘til touch down brings me round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home
Oh no, no, no, I'm a rocket man
Rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone

And I think it's gonna be a long, long time ‘til touch down brings me round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home
Oh no, no, no, I'm a rocket man
Rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone

And I think it's gonna be a long, long time
And I think it's gonna be a long, long time
And I think it's gonna be a long, long time
And I think it's gonna be a long, long time
And I think it's gonna be a long, long time
And I think it's gonna be a long, long time
And I think it's gonna be a long, long time
And I think it's gonna be a long, long time

[malthaussen]

114. Well, some of us do, anyway.

Frankly, anything I thought profound "back then" I still think is profound. Perhaps I was more sparing of my admiration than some others. Or perhaps I don't really know clouds at all.

But I do think it odd, sometimes, that so many seem to feel a need to disavow who they were 40 years or so ago. It seems almost obligatory these days to deride polyester, shag carpets, and avocado appliances as though one were taking a deep breath of thanks for having finally had their eyes opened to the trivialities of their youths. I'd like to live another 40 years just to watch my contemporaries disown who they were in 2013.

Which sounds a bit like a flaming attack, not the intention. There was a lot of bad music floating around when the Boomers were coming of age. I just think it's an interesting psychological phenomenon, this wish to say "boy, was I stupid... then."

-- Mal

[LuckyLib]

115. Good point. Many of those songs bring back the angst of young love, the

feelings that nobody understood us, that the world was a mess. Some I had forgotten, and revisiting them made me laugh. Others bring back very clear memories of the time.

[LWolf]

122. Generally, if I thought they were profound then,

I still do.

Of course, many popular songs were never profound at all, lol.