The prompt for today is Music and the question is ‘what’s on your playlist?’
Being an older personage and having an eclectic taste in music there is more off my playlist than on it. That is not to say that what is not on it is not favoured…more that the storage capacity of my phone just can’t handle the list!
From Beethoven to the Beatles, from Jim Croce to Eddison Lighthouse, from A – Z from the 1920’s all the way to now there are songs and memories attached to those songs and pieces of music. I remember Mozart’s 40th symphony getting into the charts when I was still quite young, 1971 as it happens. The year before All Things Must Pass, was released, though my introduction to it took a wee bit longer to occur.
Music can be an all consuming passion. It certainly manages to transport us TARDIS like as within the notes, lyrics and melodies are the hooks to faces, places, times, events, loves found and loves lost. Bitter Sweet Symphonies indeed. There is so much of our lives in the music, like touchstones, each song is a memory, a feeling, a place in Space and Time.
All Things Must Pass is a treasured box of memories. It is also a good thing to remember. Impermanence, even now I wonder how many songs are not on my list that hold pieces of my life’s experience.
Shall I seek them out, or wait to be surprised while listening to a radio show sometime?
For me there is less music that is new. The compulsion to have everything, all the time, in a gadget does not fill me with glee.
I would rather dance myself into trance with James Asher’s Shaman’s Drums than listen to ads with musical interludes.
Shamanism Scotland 
I love The Beatles and Jim Croce.
I only know the hit from Edison Lighthouse, and see they only have two albums. Which would you recommend exploring?
It very much wasn’t on the cards for them, their follow up to Love Grows, was ‘it’s up to you Petunia’ and there was a postal strike at the time and so it was kept off the top charts by George Harrison My Sweet Lord. I used to see Andy Locke a lot when I was working in Middlesex but we lost touch. I think ‘Already’ would be a reasonable shout but look out for a song written by Andy that is the B side of a Rainbow single, played by mistake on Noel Edmonds Saturday morning show once a long time ago.
Same, I despise ads in general but the ones with the music interludes- like why?!
Hopping in from the community,
Dream
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