glaconman Wrote:I think happy music becomes very tiresome very quickly. I mean it's ok for 10 minutes whilst you're washing-up or driving to work.
But if you're going to listen to music for longer periods you need people who can reflect on life and produce stuff that resonates with the human condition.
Thank you GM, you are so right.
Music is a pulverisingly personal thing. No one is is going to switch their 'taste' on the basis of a post on an internet forum. But here's 5 minutes of video of Cohen singing
The Stranger Song which absolutely 'reflects on life and..... resonates with the human condition...'
We must all feel free to hate this sort of song -- be my guest. But when I first heard it in the early 70s, I suddenly understood that music was much more than rock 'n' roll and dancing and grinning at your neighbours over a barbecued sausage.
http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/sea...song_music
This is poetry, but that's a tough word to chew on. I was never intimidated by it. Some people are.
I felt the opposite -- for me, discovering this was an utter liberation. Far from being depressing, it suddenly filled me with hope.
Ah, but maybe you had to be there....
(As a minor aside, I remembered while listening to this again after so long that there's a line in it -- [INDENT]But while he talks his dreams to sleep
you notice there's a highway
that is curling up like smoke above his shoulder
[/INDENT]that won John Peel's competition for "best ever line in a song")
Another footnote: Julie Felix, who introduces the song... She bought me a pint in the back room of a pub in Wakefield a few years ago (1996?), when she was back doing the folk circuit. She's still lovely, if somewhat older and wrinklier. Lovely lady, and still has a fine set of lungs.
