This is the bit that blows my 34 year old mind. Cream formed the same year Pet Sounds dropped! Motown churning out the hits. Dusty Springfield and Jimmy Hendrix and Johnny Cash all at the same time. Obligatory Beatles mention.
The variety of stellar music is as astounding as anything else.
A few dozen years back I got a CD of Dark Side of the Moon bec I donтАЩt have a working turntable. My 17-yr-old heard it and exclaimed, тАЬI didnтАЩt know they had a new record out!тАЭ Umm, yeah, sweetie, not so new тАж
This! I watch YouTube reaction videos by today's young people, black and white, of 60s singers. To a person, they are awed by the talent back then - all of it without auto-tune, gimmicks and screeching - just pure talent.
It's interesting to hear songs from the 60s and 70s being used in the soundtracks of some films made today where all the actors are millennials and the alphabet generations. Goes to prove that some of our music is timeless.
I honestly can't remember what I saw/listened to yesterday. But I STILL remember lyrics from the songs I loved back in the 60s. :-) Then again I remember reading that as we age, current memory is the first to go, but long term memory stays. :-)
CanтАЩt let this thread pass without mentioning Janis w/Big Brother & the holding co. Just too flippinтАЩ great! I was 12 going on 25, but thought it would never endтАж.
My 16 year-old granddaughter will be performing in a high school talent show this Friday. Accompanying herself on the acoustic guitar, she'll be singing a song by Joni Mitchell.
The music was better in 1968.
Ain't that the truth!
Not just good, but it was going in so many directions at once. It was living through the very invention of and evolution of rock.
This is the bit that blows my 34 year old mind. Cream formed the same year Pet Sounds dropped! Motown churning out the hits. Dusty Springfield and Jimmy Hendrix and Johnny Cash all at the same time. Obligatory Beatles mention.
The variety of stellar music is as astounding as anything else.
also the year of Elvis's big comeback
And what is amazing to me is that 34-year-olds like you know about this music and are still listening to it.
A few dozen years back I got a CD of Dark Side of the Moon bec I donтАЩt have a working turntable. My 17-yr-old heard it and exclaimed, тАЬI didnтАЩt know they had a new record out!тАЭ Umm, yeah, sweetie, not so new тАж
I love this! Thank you for an cheering story in the middle of this gloomy subject.
This! I watch YouTube reaction videos by today's young people, black and white, of 60s singers. To a person, they are awed by the talent back then - all of it without auto-tune, gimmicks and screeching - just pure talent.
It's interesting to hear songs from the 60s and 70s being used in the soundtracks of some films made today where all the actors are millennials and the alphabet generations. Goes to prove that some of our music is timeless.
We were lucky to grow up hearing some great music
Right. Some really great melodies from then, and as I said they are still played 60 years later.
I HATE hearing them in commercials, though.
I honestly can't remember what I saw/listened to yesterday. But I STILL remember lyrics from the songs I loved back in the 60s. :-) Then again I remember reading that as we age, current memory is the first to go, but long term memory stays. :-)
CanтАЩt let this thread pass without mentioning Janis w/Big Brother & the holding co. Just too flippinтАЩ great! I was 12 going on 25, but thought it would never endтАж.
My 16 year-old granddaughter will be performing in a high school talent show this Friday. Accompanying herself on the acoustic guitar, she'll be singing a song by Joni Mitchell.