CD Memory Lane Time

Every now and then I feel the need to get some of that music from my youth..don't we all? So just got in some 'new' cd's today (cheap...overstock.com had'em for chea and it was $1 shipping)...and I found I still love these albums...an early 70's flashback...

It's not the musicianship, and it's not the quality of the songwriting or the production, so much as it's the fact that it reinforced something that you were feeling at the time. You will always associate that music with what you were experiencing then. You will never forget that, and likely will never relate to any new music, anything like you did, to that.

It's the same experience for anyone coming after us. They will say that nobody ever wrote music as good as what they were experiencing when they connected with it, and it will follow them that way for the rest of their lives.

My parents connected with Glenn Miller, and there's no way that I can say that the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Alice Cooper, the Ramones, or the Eagles did better music; it's just what connected with me.

I heard Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young in concert a few years ago. Songs like 'Woodstock' and 'Ohio' made me cry like a baby.

Taking nothing away from the great music you mention (I love it, too), our kids will inevitably have their own.

Thank you for your post. I have an old mono video tape of Rory Gallagher's live show from the Montreaux Jazz Festival circa 1980. This is the live set that opens up with 'Shinnkicker.' To be able to pick up the CD of the same set for $8.40 is great. Man, now *that's* a power trio! I can't believe that it has been 25 years. 'Live in Europe' rocks, too. Thanks again for the info.

My experiences are very similar to Zoids. My Dad loved Glenn Miller. My older sister and I were awakened many a Sunday morning to the sounds of Glenn Miller. We hated it! Now, at least, I can appreciate the talent. But, going back to old music we used to listen to... I had always been a big Hendrix (still am) and I played the LPs relentlessly. Plus add to that it was the time that FM radio was a new thing and you'd her Hendrix on the radio too. Years after he died I quit listening to them completely. Not because I liked them any less, but I needed a break from his music and I didn't want to lose my enthusiasm for him. I was burnt out on Jimi. Now that's it's many years later I can listen to those songs I remember so well and others I've forgotten and still feel that enthusiasm. I also hear them with a different ears because of the musicians I came to learn about that influenced Jimi and can see where he got some of his ideas. Where he was coming from. And also learning what was going on in his life at the time he recorded those songs.

Sure, the memories are a part of it,but it's aways interesting getting hold of some of the stuff you liked as a kid/teen and hearing it again years later...I do find some of it to be godawful now, so it can't JUST be the memories. I have vague memories of my 'top 10' from (I think) 1971 or so...'Joy to the World' and 'Uncle Albert' have nostalgia value (and some of the Ram album still kicks ass, just not Uncle Albert) but really aren't that great...on the other hand, I still love 'Ride Captain Ride' by Blues

Yeah I think it is more than memory. Good music is good music. Music I thought was good when I was 13, I don't necessarily think is still good just because I liked it then. I still think say Zeppelin is good but not say Cinderellla!

Also those pre 80's albums do have a certain warmth that albums since then do not.

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I would have to vote for 'Then Play On' and 'Kilnhouse' as my Fleetwood Mac favorites; and I loved Rory's 'Against The Grain'. Does anyone remember his earlier band Taste? How about The Strawbs or Wishbone Ash? There are so many...

And a not so typical Fleetwood tune (Green?) that just hit me right in the spot was 'Man of the world' The way it shifts from soft candle light pop to moments of hard rock distorted guitar just fascinated me! The same goes for the Fleetwood version of 'black magic woman' Its superior to any other version I've heard!

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