Please tell me there's someone else that had to read "Grendel" in high school. I got to skip Shakespeare, thank goodness.
Anyway, next skin crawling song for me would be Christmas Shoes. The fabricated manipulation, the oddity of an unsupervised child purchasing shoes for an ailing parent that's likely bedbound. I hate it with every fiber of my being.
Ive been places, over the years, where that's a real happening. Sorry, it's a very descriptive song of real things that have happened...
I sometimes wish I could go back in time to that era. But then I remember current things i couldn't do w/o, LOL.
There are a few older songs (probably mostly country) that are also stories that are or could have happened.
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Sticking my head back in the sand
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Ive found, over the years, some of my music tastes have changed. Very eclectic, I guess. Love some of the older country songs - cool water & ghost riders in the sky (by Sons of the Pioneers), LOVE some Johnny Horton songs - North to Alaska, sink the Bismarck, battle of New Orleans, Commanche (better have a box of tissue).
Gordon lightfoot's song - the wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald; Dan Fogelberg - Run for the Roses (about KY Derby) & Leader of the Band.
Country crooner, pop, folk, ? - Marty Robbins - El Paso, El Paso City, a few others...
A couple of John Denver's, some of the Judd's, Terri Clark...
A family of military, truckers, CBers & farmers - like marching (the sometimes crude ones that helps a soldier to march & to run while developing wind & distance)& trucking songs - Convoy, Wolf Creek Pass, Teddy Bear, Phantom 309
Does anyone know that Chris Ledoux & his dad produced 22 C/W/folk albums out of his basement - long before he became a main stream c&w singer? Some of those songs are pretty awesome! I had a few tapes, at one point, that I got at a rodeo... There are/were other singers as well, still going strong regardless of "regular"
A theme - ballad/story songs about specific eras. Some are folksy, some country, some pop etc.
Then I like instrumental. Not so much the classics (yes I like some, but...definitely not a classic fanatic) - Atlanta Pops, Boston Pops (another i can.not.bring to mind). Then into what was classed as "New Age" in the 80's- Kitaro (yep, still playing), Tangerine Dream, Full Circle, Kenny G, again many others i cant think of at the moment. Maybe due to mom's influence - she was a marching band drummer (*an Iowa farm GIIRL, no less!!*) whose High School Marching Band from Kiron, IA went to the Rose Bowl Parade in the late 50/early 60s.
Now really into (American) Native flute & other instruments and Celtic instrumental as well.
Some whimsical - They're coming to take me away (is it true?), Sneaky Snake ...
Right now i can't think of any Rap i like, but it's mostly (c)rap to me.
I can't stand Opera. Not the siging type (don't think due to language) or instrumental. Not into ballet, either...
While ive been "tied down" by a broken leg that wasn't healing, I got into watching West Coast Swing. WOW, what a different lot of songs !! Some I would never have heard or thought I might like. I wish id known the current WCS dancing when I was younger. I would have loved it.
