I think CindyC should be forced to read all 244 pages of this thread. But as a good citizen, I will say that I am listening at the moment to the Beacon concert.
634-5789 by Wilson Pickett just started and I can't help but feel better already. Love having 10K+ songs on my cloud service and hitting "shuffle all". You never know what might pop up next. "Shine A Light" from Stripped played a few minutes ago. Now we're on to: "Can't Keep My Mind on You" by the Fools...
What a great thing the enjoyment of music can be on a Wednesday afternoon at the office!
There was a book sale in the lobby of my office today. In addition to the books they were selling some toys, christmas stuff and cds. I couldn't resist the 2-CD 50 Song Frank Sinatra collection. It's on it's second play. Kind of kicking myself for not also opting for the Louis Armstrong collection. Next time maybe.
I have been listening to a wonderful compilation "Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-68" -- amazing stuff, way before my time so no painful memories attached [unlike the April Wine track - sigh].
You're probably not imagining it, latebloomer - what musicians write comes out of what they've been listening to (whether they liked what they heard or not) and all those big musical scores like Oklahoma were all over the place (like a bag of fleas, as Ronnie would say) in the 50s and 60s.
One More Shot got thoroughly bashed for being too similar to other things, but lots of songs around this period had echoes of each other - I can hear Ruby Tuesday/Stupid Girl/Miss Amanda Jones in the orchestral Dandelion, and it doesn't make any of those four songs any less enjoyable in their own right.
Anyway, what I came here to post was Something Completely Different: I'm currently enjoying Jake Bugg's debut album...