The Floyd (note - the first 40 seconds are VERY quiet; there's nothing wrong with the vid. Or yer 'puter.):
But we digress. There are any number of seminal albums in the history o' rock'n'roll... the first Elvis album, "Abbey Road," Led Zep I, "Workingman's Dead" (and you know there may be more)... but "Dark Side of the Moon" does it for me in that "seminal" category. (Aside: chase and read that link, if'n you're a music geek.) It's been 40 years and 27 days since the album was released... FORTY FREAKIN' YEARS!... yet it still sounds as fresh today as it did all those years ago. Which, I suppose, makes me feel less old. Still and even... 40 years? Really?
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Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.Well. We'd comment on THAT, but let's don't. Let's just say those lyrics hit much closer to home than they used to.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say.
But we digress. There are any number of seminal albums in the history o' rock'n'roll... the first Elvis album, "Abbey Road," Led Zep I, "Workingman's Dead" (and you know there may be more)... but "Dark Side of the Moon" does it for me in that "seminal" category. (Aside: chase and read that link, if'n you're a music geek.) It's been 40 years and 27 days since the album was released... FORTY FREAKIN' YEARS!... yet it still sounds as fresh today as it did all those years ago. Which, I suppose, makes me feel less old. Still and even... 40 years? Really?
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You're right. 40 years? YIKES! It seems like yesterday when "Dark Side" came out. And, yeah, lets not go there re the lyrics, lol. Why aren't I plying the Agean Sea in my yacht drinking rum & Tequila until my liver explodes? ('couise I'm doin' the drinkin' bit anyway, lol.)
ReplyDeleteWhy aren't I plying the Agean Sea in my yacht drinking rum & Tequila until my liver explodes?
DeleteProlly for pretty much the same reason **I'm** not doin' that. And I'd be drinkin' ouzo or raki if I were in the Aegean, among other things. Heh.
A friend of mine (Barb the crazy woman from CA) gave me a book, "The War of Art." It is about procrastination or what the author calls resistance and overcoming resistance to do what you have always wanted to do - be it art or writing or whatever. Of course, I have not finished the book - procrastination - but it is interesting and maybe a little encouraging.
ReplyDeleteLet me finish that thought: I think the author must have written the book when he was a younger man. It seems to me that procrastination/resistance gets worse as we get older. Or maybe we give in to it more.
DeleteYeah, I find my resistance getting stronger as I get older. ;-)
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