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
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.