I like the idea of this "Music I Like" post...makes a change from my usual Substack fare.
I have a post on STB which asks this question:
"How can we decide what (if anything) qualifies as great art in the vast archive of recorded popular music? For most people all this is a big thing in their lives in their teens and twenties; from then on interest wanes. Those for whom this phase ran its course at anytime in the 60’s to 90’s tend to think of themselves as having been around for the best of it. If the thee billion plus hits on Spotify’s most streamed songs is the measure, you could argue that it is now bigger than ever. But nobody seriously believes that any of them will go down in history as great ones. So what will? What songs will endure when all rock’s ephemera evaporates into the mist of time?
Boy in the Bubble ; Desolation Row; Sultans of Swing; Hungry Heart; Boys of Summer ; I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For; Fast Car; Season of Hollow Soul; Don't Go To Strangers; McArthur Park, Death of a Ladies Man; Both Sides Now; Television Antichrist Blues; Fisherman's Blues. Go Your Own Way; Love is a Stranger; Baker Street; Is This Love; Heart of Glass; Thank U and Pride (In the name of Love) ; I Wanna Dance with Somebody ;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3bksUSPB4c;
PS: I was heavily into Rock from around 1960 to around 2000 so anything after that has basically passed me by. PPS: I tried to copy paste all the links into this comment but only some worked but they'reall there in the essay itself
I like the idea of this "Music I Like" post...makes a change from my usual Substack fare.
I have a post on STB which asks this question:
"How can we decide what (if anything) qualifies as great art in the vast archive of recorded popular music? For most people all this is a big thing in their lives in their teens and twenties; from then on interest wanes. Those for whom this phase ran its course at anytime in the 60’s to 90’s tend to think of themselves as having been around for the best of it. If the thee billion plus hits on Spotify’s most streamed songs is the measure, you could argue that it is now bigger than ever. But nobody seriously believes that any of them will go down in history as great ones. So what will? What songs will endure when all rock’s ephemera evaporates into the mist of time?
The final part of the essay is full of YouTube links that are my (part) personal answer to your question. https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/imagine-theres-no-muzak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NXnxTNIWkc; Be My Baby
Boy in the Bubble ; Desolation Row; Sultans of Swing; Hungry Heart; Boys of Summer ; I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For; Fast Car; Season of Hollow Soul; Don't Go To Strangers; McArthur Park, Death of a Ladies Man; Both Sides Now; Television Antichrist Blues; Fisherman's Blues. Go Your Own Way; Love is a Stranger; Baker Street; Is This Love; Heart of Glass; Thank U and Pride (In the name of Love) ; I Wanna Dance with Somebody ;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3bksUSPB4c;
PS: I was heavily into Rock from around 1960 to around 2000 so anything after that has basically passed me by. PPS: I tried to copy paste all the links into this comment but only some worked but they'reall there in the essay itself
I haven’t properly listened to music since 2015. It’s just all the same to me now.
Rockers today aren’t the same as the old ones and it’s because they don’t take drugs.