long way to the shop...
I was watching a thing on telly and the scene was a nursing home for people who were clearly of the generation which was young during WWII. They were all gathered around a piano, singing a Vera Lynn song of that era.
This got me thinking...
It mightn'd be too long before I end up in one of those places...
What will the staff be organising for us by way of music...
AC/DC? Rolling Stones? Deep Purple? The Doors? The Beatles? The Who? Cliff Richard?
What !?!?!?
This got me thinking...
It mightn'd be too long before I end up in one of those places...
What will the staff be organising for us by way of music...
AC/DC? Rolling Stones? Deep Purple? The Doors? The Beatles? The Who? Cliff Richard?
What !?!?!?
posted by The Editor at
10:32 PM
18 Comments:
The other old farts will pinch ya Ipod.
John Denver, Mariah Carey, Boyz 2 Men...
Heh heh
Dunno what they play in the big department stores in Oz but here in the states, I think we already have the answer: [a] nobody sings although with the earbuds many are not aware of the strained, offtune noises they make to the beat [b] the same musak that is played in JC Penny's :anything from the 60's that is trippy, romantic or exhilarating but devoid of anti-military or anti-authority lyrics. we will get rolled down to the social hall, a blanket over our shrunken legs, to hear musak.
I plan on dying of a heart attack as is the tradition of all the male ancestors I know of...long before I am in a condition of second toddlerhood.
I just keep imagining us all in a "home", trying to "get down and dirty" with AC/DC's Back In Black album. In particular Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution, pumped out by a state-of-the-art sound system at the rate of 105dB, vibrating the mortar out from between the bricks.
Jericho !!!
No, that'll be "And the walls came down" by the Call. Still a good song.
"I don't think there are any Russians
And there ain't no Yanks
Just corporate criminals
Playin' with tanks"
Yo dude !!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kX8lqXAONg>
Damn, that link seems to be busted. I used to have that song on video in the '80s, but now all gone, would love to see it again.
Word verification is cwrmmmyf: you're not Welsh by any chance?
Try this:
http://tinyurl.com/57ehxt
No, I'm not Welsh... Nor am I about to recite my lineage... :-)
Yowza!! You've made my night,man. That still is excellent.
Then 2 short Youtube clicks away - kind of a random process - and I get another of my favourite bands, Human League.
Does life get any better? (well I do need stereo and decent speakers but still...)
The "Grumpy Old Toddlers" Ward seems to be working out fine... :o)
And then there's
"Sanctuary fades
congregation splits
Nightly military raids
The congregation splits
It's a song of assassins
Ringin' in your ears
We got terrorist thinking
Playing on fears"
Profoundly perscient, given that it was written in 1983 !!!
Nothing changes.
Example in point: Military Madness (we heard CSN do this in Brisbane early this year, prefaced with comments about Bush/Howard.
Excellent.
Indeed nothing changes. Grrrrrr...
No wonder I'm a misanthrope
Gerry, I commend the movie "Young at Heart to your attention. It has nothing to do with the Doris Day, Frank Sinatra movie of that name except that all the people in the chorus saw that movie in theaters...when they were in their thirties or forties. It is a documentary.
It is a dollop of hope without any sugar coating and it is precisely about what octogenarians can sing if they put their minds to it.
have taken to scaring the chooks with renditions of '20th century schizoid Man' from the King Crimson album which, if memory still serves (not guaranteed these days) was written in 1973 (can't reproduce the hard driving fuzzy guitar riffs though)
ODDD_1, I'm way beyond fixing. Just keeping it all together is a constant struggle.
Davo, apt song. Google tells me it was 1969.
Yer, and i keep thinking am still 55 .. heh.
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