The great thing about having grandchildren is … spending time with the grandchildren.
The worst thing? Their music.
Here’s what I’ve had to put up with.
I should have told you. It’s best listened to with the volume down. All the way down.
Anyway, it’s your turn to punish us — uh, share with us — what’s going on with you. It’s Thursday Night Open Thread.
What’s on your mind?
All that video did was trigger me into listening to ‘Pictures of You’ by The Cure…don’t even know why.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=48PJGVf4xqk
Not sure if this is better or worse…
Pure Psychedelic Rock…the best bass playing i have ever heard. No lyrics needed man.
Better. Take my word for it.
The only real way to watch any video made after the turn of the century is with Cinema Sins Everything wrong with…
I bet that chic in Cleveland was no where near that hot.
Life is the search for meaning. It could also be the pursuit of distraction. The most important thing is to not confuse the distractions with the truth or prefer to be distracted from the truth. This is something the Left simply cannot comprehend nor practice.
As much as I can’t stand Rap music, especially when done by white female wanna-be’s, I do find myself laughing at my own reaction to it because it reminds me of my own father’s reaction to people like Little Richard. Little Richard was my favorite for driving him crazy. I can’t tell you how many times he asked if I called that s**t music as I listened to LR sing songs like “Lucille”, “Rip It Up”, “Good Golly Miss Molly”, or “Tutti Frutti?” My answer was always the same…”F-k yeah I call it music, what the f-k do you think!!” Of course, I never actually SAID that, I just thought it…mostly because I wanted to live past my teens. Which I have, and now find myself knowing exactly where he was coming from as I listened to this song.
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There’s been a lot of talk here recently about how much better the music was in the 1960s and 1970s (and maybe the 1980s). Boys and girls, your parents and grandparents were saying the same things then about that music that you’re saying now about the trash that passes for music now – because what you were listening to then was, with rare exceptions, trash.
Robert Alexander Schumann, who suffered quite badly from bipolar disorder but was, at times, an inspired composer, was born June 8, 1810, in Zwickau, Germany. Here is a performance of his piano quintet (which I probably need to explain is not five pianos, but rather a piano plus a string quartet, which, in turn, consists of two violins, a viola, and a cello). IMHO, it’s the best thing that he ever wrote, and the best piano quintet, except for Antonin Dvorak’s. Listen to it. This what real music sounds like (and then get off my lawn):
And parents used to say, “Are you listening to that Schumann again? When I was a kid, we had Beethoven. Now that was real music.”
Then Gramps speaks up, “That Beethoven doesn’t hold a candle to that Bach I listened to.”
Zog like bang rock, why rock bang no you like?
In the recently-posted “modern music sucks” video, they mentioned as a virtuous factor “complexity”.
I would hazard a guess that the big band sound will beat out any tiny rock band. And maybe even a few full symphony orchestras
It’s all good…when I was younger even elevator music got me all hot & bothered..wait…it still does!
♫ tall and tan and young and lovely…♫
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.
Who can forget that album cover? [purrrr]
This one (before IMAO ruined it for me)?
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