Random thoughts on Music
It's a tired mind's rambling thoughts on music tonight before I pass out. Seriously, who thought it was a good idea to get up at 0455, leave Yonkers at 0605 to be at work before 0900 (got there about 0840!) and then work a full day?!
Mom was watching the Lionel Richie special from more than a month back. I have the cd Tuskegee it was based on. Awesome.
I love my random, eclectic music mix of Canadian Celtic Rock, celtic traditional, country, bluegrass, alternative, motown and so much more I am forgetting in my tiredness. Great Big Sea, Jimmy Buffett, Jason Aldean, so much random music collected over a lifetime of moments.
But there's a difference in some. When I listen to Lionel Richie, Kenny Rogers, and others from the 70's and even earlier, before I was born, but grew up on from my parents, there's a whole different set of feelings and emotions that I feel than the music I love from today and my life. I am not sure I can explain it, but I find it interesting or at least the tired shared brain of Evil Twin and Good Twin does tonight.
Maybe it's about the music from them is just different. It's not all just the blood and sweat and life of the writer, because there are awesome song writers today that I love and that evoke feelings in me... but they aren't the same as hearing Kenny Roger's Lady or Lionel Richie's songs.
This was making the rounds on facebook recently. It is ridiculously sad, although it doesn't really take into account the much cheaper cost of getting music AND the major ease in getting it. Its hard to compare the eras of the 80s and earlier to the 90s and later. But it does appear (to me at least) that there is a massive change in the industry and the consumer.
But that is a bit off track. I know a few things right now. I am totally exhausted. I love Lionel Richie and a lot of music from back then. I love a lot of music now. But the feelings today's music stirs in me isn't the same intensity or even the same feelings that Lionel's songs do. Maybe its a feeling of home and contentment from childhood. Maybe it's more than that. I don't know. But I do find it interesting the kind of dichotomy that exists in the music I love.
And that's pretty much all I got before I sleep ... and before my 3rd trip to Yonkers/NYC in a WEEK. :-)
Mom was watching the Lionel Richie special from more than a month back. I have the cd Tuskegee it was based on. Awesome.
I love my random, eclectic music mix of Canadian Celtic Rock, celtic traditional, country, bluegrass, alternative, motown and so much more I am forgetting in my tiredness. Great Big Sea, Jimmy Buffett, Jason Aldean, so much random music collected over a lifetime of moments.
But there's a difference in some. When I listen to Lionel Richie, Kenny Rogers, and others from the 70's and even earlier, before I was born, but grew up on from my parents, there's a whole different set of feelings and emotions that I feel than the music I love from today and my life. I am not sure I can explain it, but I find it interesting or at least the tired shared brain of Evil Twin and Good Twin does tonight.
Maybe it's about the music from them is just different. It's not all just the blood and sweat and life of the writer, because there are awesome song writers today that I love and that evoke feelings in me... but they aren't the same as hearing Kenny Roger's Lady or Lionel Richie's songs.
This was making the rounds on facebook recently. It is ridiculously sad, although it doesn't really take into account the much cheaper cost of getting music AND the major ease in getting it. Its hard to compare the eras of the 80s and earlier to the 90s and later. But it does appear (to me at least) that there is a massive change in the industry and the consumer.
But that is a bit off track. I know a few things right now. I am totally exhausted. I love Lionel Richie and a lot of music from back then. I love a lot of music now. But the feelings today's music stirs in me isn't the same intensity or even the same feelings that Lionel's songs do. Maybe its a feeling of home and contentment from childhood. Maybe it's more than that. I don't know. But I do find it interesting the kind of dichotomy that exists in the music I love.
And that's pretty much all I got before I sleep ... and before my 3rd trip to Yonkers/NYC in a WEEK. :-)