3/8/2009
Songs I heard on the radio tonight:
- Hey Jealousy, by the Gin Blossoms
- Sex on Fire, by Kings of Leon **
- Interstate Love Song, by STP
- Get on your Boots, by U2
- Cars, by Gary Numan
- No Sleep Till Brooklyn, by the Beastie Boys
- You Found Me, by Fray
- Standing Outside a Broken..., by Primitive Radio Gods **
- If you could only see, by Tonic
- Kristy Are You Doin Okay, by Offspring
- Hey There Delilah, by Plain White Tees
- Human, by the Killers **
- Heart Shaped Box, by Nirvana
- Creep, by Radiohead
- Starlight, by Muse **
- Bring Me to Life, by Evanescence
- Rock the Casbah, by Clash
- The Man Who Sold the World, Nirvana
- Santeria, by Sublime **
- Buddy Holly, by Weezer
- Gives you Hell, by All American Rejects
- Young Folks, by Peter Bjorn and John**
- Mr Jones, Counting Crows **
- Lightning Crashes, by Live
I don't keep notes every day but as I get older it gets harder for me to remember the names of the songs and the bands. When I was in my teens and 20s and most of the people I knew were listening to the same music it was easier to remember because it was so much a part of one's daily culture. But here I am, pushing 60, and the people I still know who are my age are still moaning that rock & roll ended whenever, after Born to Run, or after Led Zeppelin III, or after the Beatles broke up.
Meanwhile band after band of humanity is born and as each passes through the late teens and twenties genius flows out of the best of them as an almost accidental byproduct of living. My wife marvels that I could find delight and inspiration in music made by someone the age of my kids (range from 19-24 this year, 2009) and I can only shrug. The cognitive dissonance is there, all right, but what were we thinking when we were their age?
Think of it! Yeah. Right.
