Posts in the category “music”
This category contains all posts about songs, bands, and music in general.
My mom loved “Do not go gentle into that good night”, and I have thought about that poem quite a bit since she died. Last week I stood in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey and explained who Dylan Thomas was to my son. When Taylor Swift released ttpd a few days later, I heard the title track and almost couldn’t believe the serendipity.
Several times when they went to commercial during tonight’s College Football Championship game, ESPN was playing Gimme Shelter from the 1969 Rolling Stones album Let It Bleed. It’s an awesome song. The entire album is fantastic, and I’ve loved it since I was in middle school. I am just having a hard time wrapping my head around the idea that a song released five and a half decades ago is still so popular (and well known?) that it works. For comparison, if ESPN had existed in 1969, and if the CFP existed in 1969, they’d be playing Carry Me Back to Old Virginny by Alma Gluck or It’s a Long Way to Tipperary by John McCormack. Those were “hits” right at the start of World War I and — I don’t think I’m going out on a limb here — teenagers at the tail end of the 60s weren’t rocking out to Alma Gluck.
And the Stones are still touring!
#FridayFive: Beatles Women
Martha My Dear is a close sixth.
#FridayFive: Days of Christmas, Ranked
Nobody really needs a partridge.
#FridayFive: 1989
You Are In Love
#FridayFive: U2 Tracks
I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.
#FridayFive: Rilo Kiley Tracks
You’ll fake it if you have to
#FridayFive: Dire Straits
We got to install microwave ovens