I am Music

[Tzara]

That's a great list Tzara. I want to respond with my own list and I may, but today I'm hung up on the fact that it's the 49th anniversary of Born to Run. As if I didn't feel old already! Forty nine years! I was reading on a social media site about it where people were saying their favorite songs on the album and mostly choosing the title song or Thunder Road and they're great, now iconic, songs. But I really like Meeting Across the River. It really conveys time and place to me, with a beautiful sad lyric that captures NYC in the 1970s.

Oh and Tzara we may have come of age on opposite coasts but I remember those junior high school Friday night dances, dancing with my girl pals to Hang On Sloopy while the boys stood on the other side of the gym trying to act like they weren't watching us. That's a poem either of us could write!

I had just started graduate school in 1975 when Born to Run was released. The university newspaper featured a regular column by Charles R. Cross who went from Springsteen skeptic to True Believer after seeing him live, so much so that he followed him all around the country, eventually founding a magazine (Backstreets) devoted to Springsteen, and writing a biography of the Boss (as well as ones on Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart, et al.). Cross unfortunately died a few days ago, or I'm sure he would have written something about the anniversary of the album release.

I'd probably name Backstreets as my favorite cut on the album.

 

[Tzara]

Important addendum: The Young Rascals, who had some awesome hits including "Good Lovin'", and also an appealing political role in that they refused to perform unless a group of black musicians was also on the bill. Then there was their second incarnation in 1971 as The Rascals with the great Buzz Feiten on guitar, and they made a fantastic, overlooked album called "Peaceful World" which included guest spots for numerous jazz luminaries.

Good Lovin' (love those cute costumes!) might have made my list if I'd thought about it, or You Better Run.

And I thoroughly understand the disliking Neil thing. I could never get into Van Morrison, for example.

 

[Angeline]

Good Lovin' (love those cute costumes!) might have made my list if I'd thought about it, or You Better Run.

And I thoroughly understand the disliking Neil thing. I could never get into Van Morrison, for example.

The Rascals were great! I loved the way their drummer would twirl his sticks, like mini batons! Anyway possibly my favorite Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction speech ever is this one.

And in the pantheon of great Rascals songs there's this forgotten gem.

 

[AlwaysHungry]

Here's something from Rascals 2.0.

 

[AlwaysHungry]

Addendum: I forgot what I think may be the greatest rock 'n' roll album of all time, the 1972 release by the original 4-person lineup of Little Feat, "Sailin' Shoes."

 

[Angeline]

I was sad to hear today that JD Souther just died. He is best known as a songwriter for The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor. He performed on his own and with the Souther-Hillman-Furay Band.

I was never a big Eagles fan but I love some of the songs he wrote for Linda Ronstadt, with whom he had a relationship in the 1970s. I especially love this one from her breakout album Heart Like A Wheel, Faithless Love. Another is the lovely Prisoner In Disguise, the title track from an album Linda did a few years later.

Here's the obituary from Variety if you're interested. RIP JD and thank you for the music.

 

[Tzara]

Paramore

 

[Lady_Jade666]

Andrea Guerra - La Bella e La Bestia (Main Theme)

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Loreen - Is It Love