[knarf]

I've been listening to 50's and 60's love ballads playlists the past couple of days and I realize .... we (born in '48) were subliminally conditioned to really attempt to love our girlfriends/boyfriends and to feel bad about common love/life tragedies

I'll meditate on this some more, but I think THAT may be the missing element in the American social structure today

I lament the absence of Norman Rockwell and HIS influence and maybe the teenage music of the time was/is an element I would like to bring back

BTW .. The Temptations' "Losing You" ROCKS

My other favorite is Can't Get Next To You

[usconservative]

I’m a (nearly...) 54 year old upper middle class white guy living in suburbia, but dammit man, Motown has *always* been my favorite.

[usconservative]

Nowhere to Run Martha and the Vandella's

[itssme]

Give this 1958 do-op song a listen to...as a young teenage girl I just swooned and continue to do so to this day whenever I hear it played on youtube. It's the Flamingo's I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU.

[Yaelle]

It’s why I love country music - I’m only a year or two into it - because while the songs are also about sex, they still take any love into account. It’s just more than rutting like squirrels. There is still some respect there, as opposed to hip hop, which reveres basic unemotional prostitution or less.