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Songs that spoke to a generation

rjay

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The song that gave him the title. He sang to the people who are not his normal audience - but he connected. If you perform and you connect, your work is done.

 
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This seems to me to be an anthem
 
zyzygy said:
Zappa was unaware of the meaning of the word poofter.
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You do know that CHE was Zappa's response to Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side?" Zappa never missed a beat. :)
 
OldFatGuy said:
You do know that CHE was Zappa's response to Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side?" Zappa never missed a beat. :)
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I liked Zappa but I am a major Beefheart fan.


"In 1975, I did a tour with Captain Beefheart. The difference between his music and Frank's was like night and day. Frank was avant-garde, but Beefheart was the real thing, totally left-field."-Jimmy Carl Black.
 
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This album spoke to me

 
Songs?This one should be the national pre anthem



Albums. Yep, I'm old.

 
rjay said:
The song that gave him the title. He sang to the people who are not his normal audience - but he connected. If you perform and you connect, your work is done.

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His Folsom Prison album one of the best ever.
 
zyzygy said:
I liked Zappa but I am a major Beefheart fan.


"In 1975, I did a tour with Captain Beefheart. The difference between his music and Frank's was like night and day. Frank was avant-garde, but Beefheart was the real thing, totally left-field."-Jimmy Carl Black.
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I toured with neither, but enjoy listening to both. :)
 
Generation? Any generation? Let's try this one! The one my parents filled the house with on Saturday nights when they wanted to cut a rug! And now of course, I love it as much as they did.


 
What the hey, I may as well do a tribute to them:


 
Completing the Holy Trinity of popular 40's Big Band jitterbug swing tunes, is Ellington's "Take the 'A' Train".

These are the first songs I heard in life, as my parents danced away Saturday night parties at our place for decades on. Remember, before there was rock & roll and the twist, there was big band and the jitterbug! :2razz:

(I'll spare you Ellington's Satin Doll, but it's right up there - though in the 40's slow-dancing category along with Miller's Moonlight Serenade)


 
The Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The U.K

 
Nickyjo said:
His Folsom Prison album one of the best ever.
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Yep. And not long after, in the blues genre, came B.B. king's "Live in Cook County Jail". Both are undeniable excellent and epochal.
 
Chomsky said:
Generation? Any generation? Let's try this one! The one my parents filled the house with on Saturday nights when they wanted to cut a rug! And now of course, I love it as much as they did.


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[TE=Chomsky;1070961880]Generation? Any generation? Let's try this one! The one my parents filled the house with on Saturday nights when they wanted to cut a rug! And now of course, I love it as much as they did.


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My husband swears our first child was conceived while we "watched" the movie 1941. In the Mood was part of the soundtrack. I later learned that my husband's grandmother met his grandfather and they danced to the song at a USO club before he shipped out to England in 1942. TMI ? Great song.QUO
 
Lovebug said:
Songs?This one should be the national pre anthem



Albums. Yep, I'm old.

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I love "Aquarius"!

I'll call your Aquarious, and raise you Greenbaum's Spirit in the Sky!


 
Parrish said:
My husband swears our first child was conceived while we "watched" the movie 1941. In the Mood was part of the soundtrack. I later learned that my husband's grandmother met his grandfather and they danced to the song at a USO club before he shipped out to England in 1942. TMI ? Great song.QUO
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TMI? Not at all! I love the social context of music within history. Like I said, big band swing was the first music I heard due to my parents' love of it, along with my coming-up in a city with a deep jazz & blues heritage that was one of the development centers of swing.

Just like some raised in the sixties always gravitate to sixties music, my parents were exposed to swing as children and never let it go for the rest of their lives. They inspired a love of jazz in me (besides swing), that I appreciate and am grateful for until today.
 
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