OK Boomer... and Gen X-er

Tubular Bells. Exorcist.

 

Tubular Bells was featured in “The Exorcist.” Mike Oldfield.

 

I have a couple of the full moon fever cassettes on my workbench. I play them in my 1990's Sony Sports boombox(the yellow one) . I used to take this to the beach back in the days before digital music players. Ive seen Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers live 3 times in my life. The old Sony will not die! Unlike Tom Petty who left this earth in 2017. RIP Tom.

 

Well I see that my album links are not working as expected. I thought I was posting full albums but only getting single songs. (at least for me) I'll have to keep working on it.

 

2 cassettes that were bought multiple times

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEAZ3l-KGs1t8SRL25Cp0B0nciGSJWmnw&si=NVb3HJ532FOMJBGD

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG0W27j3Wle3g6aq3sPxazQVQ0vtgfx3P&si=FXYNnvdh2rgiQ5uJ

 

Went down the rabbit hole of YouTube this morning and found this:
https://youtu.be/iL1HvAu8V1w?si=f4FhjYLMcx5HBdrz

This would be fun to play loud at stoplights with the windows rolled down while making direct eye contact with people.

 

My Absolute Favorites:
Radiohead - Ok Computer and Kid A
Muse - Absolution and Black Holes and Revelations
Queeens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Beck - Morning Phase
The Dandy Warhols - Come Down
Pinback - Blue Screen Life
The Shins - Oh Inverted World
Stone Temple Pilots - Number 4
Sublime - Robbin' the Hood

Some very honorable mentions (some might be a little less known):
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Eric Clapton - From the Cradle
Frank Black - Teenager of the Year
Marcy Playground - Self Titled
Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild
Elliott Smith - XO
Nirvana - Bleach and Unplugged
Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X
Space - Spiders
Tenacious D - Self Titled

During My Punk Days:
Bad Religion - 80-85 and Against the Grain
Dead Kennedy's - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
The Descendants - Two Things at Once
NOFX - Punk in Drublic and Pump up the Valuum

 

In 1976 I bought my first car. A 1967 Cougar with a 289 V8. Landau top, tilt- away steering wheel, hide-away headlights, sequential turn signals, and a factory in-dash 8-track player. The previous owner left one cassette in the car. Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. That’s the only music I had in the car for most of a year. It’s the first music I’ve played in every car I’ve ever owned. Don’t ask me why. It’s like my new car theme music.

 

My musical taste run all over from old rock like Neal Young to ACDC, led zeppelin, to old and new blues and outlaw country. Today i listened to Ray Wylie Hubbard (conversation with the devil and choctaw bingo) and some old John Prine.

 

There is SO much great music listed here! So many memories! Sure beats the noise that one hears everywhere now! I keep identical iPods in both of my trucks so I can listen to REAL music and not the shit that is out there now.

 

Man I miss John Prine.

 

Every year I force myself to listen to “Album of the Year” from the Grammys. As a Boomer, I get into a “Classic Rock” rut and tend poopoo current music / artists. The reality is there is still good music and talent out there. It may not be the genre you are comfortable with. It may not even be a major label. You need to continue to expose yourself to “new stuff” to find it. Yes you do sift through lots of crap, but there are still diamonds out there. Lots of interesting talent on YouTube believe it or not.

 

Saw Tull preform this live 02Feb73 in Frankfurt.

They opened with Thick As A Brick just as I started peakin' on some Blotter...

https://youtu.be/X15PsqN0DHc?si=0XbMcV0ZxJhir4CL

 

1986, kids!

 

I have kids in their late teens/early 20’s so I get the type of exposure you are talking about. Nowadays I suppose where new music is concerned there’s the same ratio of good music to crap as there was when I was a kid. We forget about the crap of our times because it slips into obscurity.

It’s interesting that my kids listen to as much music from my time as theirs.

What’s really interesting is how they listen to music. My daughters will put on makeup in the bathroom or cook in the kitchen while listening to music on the hands free speaker on their phones. It’s like nails on a chalkboard to me. When I was a kid, home stereo was a big deal and no one would consider listening to to music out of one speaker.

 

Townes Van Zandt - live at the old quarter.
Bruce Springsteen - Best of
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Bob Dylan- Highway 61 revisited
Bon Jovi
Meatloaf- Bat out of hell

 

https://youtu.be/O4irXQhgMqg?feature=shared