Posted on 04/21/2019 6:36:15 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
My friends there is such a thing. It makes you want to listen closely to the lyrics. My examples would be Emerson, Lake, and Palmer "From the Beginning". Then there's Elton with "Mona Lisa and Mad Hatters." Yes-"I've Seen All Good People and Rod Stewart's "Gasoline Alley". It makes your ears work a bit but worth it. Funny how it's mostly 70's music.
there we go. :)
I started the decade of the 1970s at age 17 and ended it at age 27. I feel incredibly blessed to have been the perfect age to enjoy the bounty of incredible art that was produced in that era.
People of my generation were so spoiled back then. We assumed the quality and volume of great music would continue forever. Few of us saw the decline coming.
Most of Steely Dan’s stuff was sophisticated and thought-provoking (if that qualifies as intellectual), particularly ...
Doctor Wu
Deacon Blues
Sail the Waterway
Show Biz Kids
Any World (That I’m Welcome To)
Any Major Dude
My Rival
Time Out Of Mind (cryptic drug referrences)
Midnight Cruiser
Bodhisattva
(You Got) The Bear
Reelin’ in the Years
The Royal Scam
Almost Gothic
The Second Arrangement
Throw Back The Little Ones
Things I Miss The Most
It’s more close to blues than rock, but it’s a good one for thinking on...
Brown Bird - Bilgewater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoqH9irCn3o
snip:
When every day’s like a war between the will to go on
and a wish that the world would spiral into the sun
Turn your head toward the storm that’s surely coming along.
If the sun was always shining and the load always light
We’d be shaken like a leaf with with every God given night
And we’d break under the weight of any pressure that was ever applied
Moody Blues albums 1967-1972
Days of Future Passed to Seventh Sojurn
Days of Future Passed
In Search of the Lost Chord...particularly
Threshold of a Dream
All were heavily listened to soundtracks to my own interstellar exploration
In a few years I realized how much reference they used to notable historical writers and philosophers
Orchestra meets guitar meets Sidney
So I’m now sitting in the tub while wifey tries to get the large family together for Easter brunch and I’ve now got the Moody Blues intellectual music blaring from my little Altec flip speaker
She’s punk rock girl...an early Xer as opposed to me as Boomer apex year
“It’s Easter why are you listening to tripping music”
She doesn’t know much of the Moody Blues is really love songs
Yes Zappa made you listen to his acerbic wit
Zappa was a conservative.....maybe not a moral majority sort but he hated socialism and naive hippie dippy screeds
Roads to Moscow
The Running Man
Last Train to Munich
Trains
Palace of Versailles
A Child's View of the Eisenhower Years
Hanno the Navigator
Shah of Shahs
Old Admirals
Royal Courtship
The Immelman Turn
Franklin's Table
A League of Notions
Joe the Georgian
The Last Day of June 1934
Peter on the White Sea
Flying Sorcery
Helen and Cassandra
Russians and Americans
Post World War II Blues
Nostradamus
Murmansk Run/Ellis Island
Fields of France ...
...etc, etc, etc ...
There’s a good Swedish Metal band Sabaton that does a lot of songs about historical battles.
Good to know, you always wonder if the old guys still have it or not. I saw Yes last Summer and they were awesome, Steve Howe very much still has it.
I saw the Aqualung tour.....stereo.....a first....most defined concert I ever saw
Anderson was incredible as was his short haired lead guitarist which stood out
A lot from Time Was and Benefit and Aqualung and a slice of not yet released TAAB
Steely Dan of course
I always found myself listening to the lyrics of Dylan as well as the Band
I was a Band fan
And I know it sounds crazy but some of Jim Morrison’s lyrics would catch your attention
His odd to Oedipus Rex sure as hell did didn’t it....lol
That’s very well done
But he hated Reagan with a passion for some reason.
What no Metal Machine Music?
I can’t stand Bruce either but he does have ONE song I like:
Highway Patrolman.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7EVCO7ZKVDs
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