I thought the Segar song fit the video compilation very well, but I couldn’t get through another mediocre Bob Segar song. On the other hand, “100 years” is a terrific tune, but the video distracted me, so I found the song’s lyrics to look at instead.
Literary song videos are interesting animals. If the song doesn’t work for you, it’s hard for the video to work. And if you don’t know the song, it’s hard to concentrate on the story the video creates.
Back in the “old days” I used to get requests for tapes of songs that people would then copy themselves so that they would then play a tape until it wore out, then make another tape and do it all over again. For people obsessed in the community, they were things to play over and over and over again. So the videos became familiar and, eventually, they turned into background music where people would just pause what they were doing, listen for a minute while they let the video play in their heads, then continue marking papers, or whatever else they were doing.
It’s much harder in this world of “watch once on YouTube” for literary song videos to make the impact they used to make.
My taste in music is pretty strange, I recognize. I enjoy the 100 years song, but I still really turn on to the Bob Seger. I like perhaps 1 or 2 songs on a CD, so I don’t overdose on most artists.