Posted on 09/23/2016 5:17:21 PM PDT by mdittmar
I love Autumn,the weather changes,the leaves turn,This is mine.
Bobby Goldsboro - Autumn of My Life - TV Show (Live)
"I'd like to call back summertime
Have her stay for just another month or so"
That’s a nice song.
Good one
Indian Summer ~ The Doors
The Boys of Summer has some of the best lyrics of any song I know. The way he tells this girl that his love will outlast the other boys by comparing it to a tourist town long after the season is over is just genius, and it really paints a vivid picture in my mind like few other songs can.
The warriors of winter give a cold, triumphant shout,
And all that stays is dyin’, and all that lives is gettin’ out...
Nope. As soon as someone adds Neil Diamond to the list, it’s like invoking Godwin’s Law when someone mentions Hitler and they IMMEDIATELY lose the argument, LOL!
Sorry! That’s Life in the Music Lane.
*SMIRK* :)
Thank you. I researched Justin Hayward. And yes, it was him and not the Moody Blues. Though he was part of the Moody Blues.
Great song.
And ones that are ostensibly set in the winter have more of a late fall feeling (brown leaves, gray skies) -- "A Hazy Shade of Winter," and "California Dreamin'."
You summed that up PERFECTLY. That is exactly how. ‘The Boys of Summer’ sounds to my ear, too.
Don Henley never wrote a bad song in his LIFE. So many of his songs resonate with me. And, he writes the BEST break up songs, EVER! :)
1. The awesome, creative lyrics, as you described. Even better is the line about the "Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac." He later described that as the moment he suddenly became disenchanted with everything the 60s stood for ... when he saw some rich dude driving a Cadillac in Beverly Hills with a Grateful Dead bumper sticker on it. The image of it spoke of a former hippie who had sold out and adopted the bourgeois lifestyle they always hated.
2. I don't even like music videos, but that one has some great elements: the black & white theme, the beach scenes, the kid playing the drums (it's supposed to be him as a kid), and the segments filmed with him standing in the back of the car.
3. The song has a great history. A version of it was originally written for Tom Petty to include on his "Southern Accents" album, but Petty decided it didn't fit with the rest of the songs they had lined up, so he let the writer use it for something else.
4. Awesome, awesome short little guitar riffs -- or even single notes -- throughout.
That is the best song of the 1980s, in my humble opinion.
November Rain, Good Song
One of my favorites, however, was a song that had October in the title but I just cannot recall the other word.
Man. About 35 years ago when I was young I took over an apartment from a coworker whom had left because our boss was notorious for not having money to cover our paychecks. I was eating buttered rice with salt for dinner for weeks because they were the only three ingredients I had.
The power was shut off but I fell asleep on the carpet and woke up in the middle of the night to that song playing on a battery powered boom box with an electrical storm going on outside.
Made me feel a little less alone.
That’s also my favorite. Title is : “Will I See You in September”
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