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I bought a couple of CDs of music from my early childhood. Those days, long ago, cold mornings, delivering my paper-route with a transistor radio rubber-banded to the handlebars. The songs alone breaking the solace of those 4 AM desolate mornings.
Wanted to remember those days, those feelings.
But....time has passed. Music will never be the same.
Now, I have a highly developed ear, a strong background in music theory, and have put together entire songs for so long.....I can't hear things with the innocence anymore.
I tried to just hear the songs, in their simplicity, but couldn't. Now I instinctively dissect the chord progression, the drum parts, the bass line, the horn parts, the guitar parts, the vocals, the mixing, the mastering.
This really sucks. I just want to hear the gestalt of the song.
But can't anymore. These songs are not the same as they were, a thousand years ago, on those cold, desolate, mornings....delivering papers to the sleeping masses.
Innocence lost.
Addendum: The craziest thing is.....that the fucking disco songs....stand the test of time the best. Those fuckers could lay the shit down! Maybe the songs were stupid, but the MF's could play! damn!
Fuck.
Wanted to remember those days, those feelings.
But....time has passed. Music will never be the same.
Now, I have a highly developed ear, a strong background in music theory, and have put together entire songs for so long.....I can't hear things with the innocence anymore.
I tried to just hear the songs, in their simplicity, but couldn't. Now I instinctively dissect the chord progression, the drum parts, the bass line, the horn parts, the guitar parts, the vocals, the mixing, the mastering.
This really sucks. I just want to hear the gestalt of the song.
But can't anymore. These songs are not the same as they were, a thousand years ago, on those cold, desolate, mornings....delivering papers to the sleeping masses.
Innocence lost.
Addendum: The craziest thing is.....that the fucking disco songs....stand the test of time the best. Those fuckers could lay the shit down! Maybe the songs were stupid, but the MF's could play! damn!
Fuck.