Music for old guys who aren't dead yet

[JamesSavik]

1976

Masquerading as a man with a reason
My charade is the event of the season
And if I claim to be a wise man,
Well, it surely means that I don't know

On a stormy sea of moving emotion
Tossed about, I'm like a ship on the ocean
I set a course for winds of fortune,
But I hear the voices say

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more no!

Album info at wikipedia ==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leftoverture

1977

I close my eyes only for a moment, and the moment's gone
All my dreams pass before my eyes, a curiosity

Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind

Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see

Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind

Now, don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away, and all your money won't another minute buy

Album info at wikipedia ==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_Know_Return

[colinian]

I love The Eagles. They are still played on the radio in the Bay Area. Cool.

Colin

[JamesSavik]

I love The Eagles. They are still played on the radio in the Bay Area. Cool.

Colin

Hotel California had three amazing songs right in a row: Hotel California, New Kid in Town and Life in the Fast Lane.

I remember people used to program their tape players to continuous and play that tape all night.

[TalonRider]

When Hotel Californina first came out, it took awhile for me to hear the whole song. I always managed to catch the instrumental when I turned the car radio on.

[JamesSavik]

1972

I see your hair is burnin'
Hills are filled with fire
If they say I never loved you
You know they are a liar
Drivin' down your freeway
Midnight alleys roam
Cops in cars,
The topless bars
Never saw a woman...
So alone, so alone

Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Into this house we're born
Into this world we're thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out on loan
Riders on the storm

For the music is your special friend
Dance on fire as it intends
Music is your only friend
Until the end
Until the end
Until the end

Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection
Send my credentials to the House of Detention
I got some friends inside

The face in the mirror won't stop
The girl in the window won't drop
A feast of friends
"Alive!" she cried
Waitin' for me
Outside!

Wikipedia Link for album info ==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_Scenes_Inside_the_Gold_Mine

PS- people used to tell me I looked like Jim.

[JamesSavik]

1975

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zACEJdFOpA

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught in the crossfire of childhood and stardom, blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!

You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision, rode on the steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.

Album info at wikipedia ==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_You_Were_Here_%28Pink_Floyd_album%29

[JamesSavik]

1969

For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do

Though I'm past
one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much
she knows

info at wikipedia ==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Oddity_%28song%29

1975

Do you remember, your President Nixon?
Do you remember, the bills you have to pay?
Or even yesterday?
Have been the un-American?
Just you and your idol sing falsetto
'bout Leather, leather everywhere, and
Not a myth left from the ghetto
Well, well, well, would you carry a razor
In case, just in case of depression?

Album info at wikipedia ==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_%28album%29

[dude]

Wow... this is some great music!

[DesDownunder]

Do I have to start posting all the tracks of all the music I like from the past 70 years?

Can I even find "Sippin' Soda" from 1950 something?

I found it...1953~I'd be embarrassed but I plead innocence at age 9.

Here it is :

[JamesSavik]

1971

Starship trooper, go sailing on by
Catch my soul, catch the very light
Hide the moment from my eager eye
Though you've seen them, please don't tell a soul
What you can't see, can't be very whole

Speak to me of summer
Long winters longer than time can remember
The setting up of other roads
To travel on in old accustomed ways
I still remember the talks by the water
The proud sons and daughter
That knew the knowledge of the land
Spoke to me in sweet accustomed ways

Album info at wikipedia ==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Album

1972

A seasoned witch could call you from the depths of your disgrace
And rearrange your liver to the solid mental grace
And achieve it all with music that came quickly from afar
And taste the fruit of man recorded losing all against the hour
And assessing points to nowhere, leading every single one
A dewdrop can exalt us like the music of the sun
And take away the plain in which we move
And choose the course you're running

Album info at wikipedia ==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_to_the_Edge_%28Yes_album%29

Bonus track!

Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together
I've got some real estate in my bag
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner's pies
And we walked off, walked off, walked off,to look for America

Kathy, I said, as we boarded the greyhound in Pittsburgh
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
Took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
They've all gone to look for America
All gone to look for America

Laughing on the bus, playing games with faces
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said be careful, his bow tie is really a camera

"Kathy, I'm lost", I said, although I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why I'm
Counting the cars on the New Jersey turnpike
And they've all gone to look for America
All gone to look for America
All gone to look for America

[Merkin]

Wowee, James, this is some great stuff. Talk about trippin' down Memory Lane!

[JamesSavik]

1976

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iTEvPzqj_s

We've taken care of everything
The words you read, the songs you sing
The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes
It's one for all and all for one
We work together, common sons
Never need to wonder how or why

We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx
Our great computers fill the hallowed halls
We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx
All the gifts of life are held within our walls

Look around at this world we've made
Equality our stock in trade
Come and join the Brotherhood of Man
Oh, what a nice, contented world
Let the banners be unfurled
Hold the Red Star proudly high in hand

album info at wikipedia ==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2112_%28album%29

Note: 2112 was based on a novella by Ayn rand called Anthem

Wikipedia page for Ayn Rand's Anthem ==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem_%28novella%29

[JamesSavik]

1979

When we grew up and went to school
There were certain teachers who would
Hurt the children in any way they could

By pouring their derision
Upon anything we did
And exposing every weakness
However carefully hidden by the kids
But in the town, it was well known
When they got home at night, their fat and
Psychopathic wives would thrash them

We don't need no educationÂ
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

Did you see the frightened ones
Did you hear the falling bombs
Did you ever wonder
Why we had to run for shelter
When the promise of a brave new world
Unfurled beneath a clear blue sky
Oooooooo ooo ooooo oooh
Did you see the frightened ones
Did you hear the falling bombs
The flames are all long gone
But the pain lingers on

Wikipedia page for the Wall ==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall

[JamesSavik]

If you wonder what this thread has all been about, I had to immerse myself in the experience to do my latest story.

It's done now but will be a while before I publish it. The title is Getting to the Happily Ever After.

It is a sequel to a story I did a while ago called the Place in Between.

All of the music mentioned in the story and more is here in this thread. I think it does a good job capturing this moment in time.

It was the seventies and... you sorta had to be there.

-JS

Hope you enjoy!

[JamesSavik]

1978

Please, don't ever let me be
I only wanna be by your side
Please, don't ever let me be
I only wanna be by your side
Girl, you really got me now
You got me so I don't know what I'm doin', yeah
Oh yeah, you really got me now
Got me so I can't sleep at night
You really got me
You really got me
You really got me

She saw the look in his eyes, 'n' she knew better
He wanted her tonight, ah, and it was now or never
He made her feel so sad
Oh, whoa, whoa, Jamie's cryin'
Oh, whoa, whoa, Jamie's cryin'
Now Jamie wouldn't say, "All right", ah, she knew he'd forget her
'N' so they said goodnight, ah, oh, 'n' now he's gone forever
She want's to send him a letter, uh yeah yeah
Uh just to try to make herself feel better
It said "Gimme (gimme a call sometime")
But she knows what that'll get her

Wikipedia page for album ==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Halen_%28album%29

[JamesSavik]

1975

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gggaP8zF5DA

Wikipedia entry for album ==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blow_by_Blow

[Guest Dabeagle]

'You Really Got Me' isn't a Kinks tune? I guess I shouldn't be surprised, Though I always loved their 'Lola' and 'Celluloid Heroes".

[JamesSavik]

'You Really Got Me' isn't a Kinks tune? I guess I shouldn't be surprised, Though I always loved their 'Lola' and 'Celluloid Heroes".

It is. I used to get a kick out of hearing people call it a Van Halen song.

Here is the much older Kinks version of the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7ffgqjcH40

[ChrisR]

Geesh - most of you guys are still kids! (Well, except for the rep from down under.)

We had music from the greats before they were great. Tower of Power and Carlos Santana both played for our dances when I was in high school. And oddly enough, Tower of Power recently announced they're losing their lead singer to Santana.

And Woodstock looked like a good time, but Woodstock West (at Altamont) defintely was.