Playlist 1

[stoutfellow]

Been a while since I posted the last of these.

• Grow Old With Me, Mary Chapin Carpenter. Soft and nostalgic; I suspect the title is a deliberate allusion to Browning's "Rabbi ben Ezra": "Grow old along with me / The best is yet to be / The last of life, for which the first was made".
• The Living Years, Mike + the Mechanics. "I wasn't there that morning / When my father passed away". I live two thousand miles from my family. My father is eighty-seven years old. This one hits me where I live.
• The End of the Innocence, Don Henley. One of my two favorite songs from Henley, along with The Heart of the Matter.
• Don Quixote, Gordon Lightfoot. This was the second Lightfoot song to catch my attention, after Edmund Fitzgerald. (Of course, I'd heard some of his songs before, but without taking much notice.) "In a flash of tangled hooves..."
• Desperado, the Eagles. Easily my favorite Eagles song.
• Year of the Cat, Al Stewart. I like others of his songs better, but this is the one which brought him into prominence, and it's a lot of fun. "You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre / Contemplating a crime..."

Comments

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

I only know the last two, although I know the poem from which the first song is taken.

I'm not sure I'd like the second one, for the same reason it hits you. I was in Goleta on the actual day my dad died. We knew it was going to be soon; I'd talked with him the night before, and I already had a ticket home for the next day.

[filkferengi]

Get thee to amazon.com, & look them up; there're bound to be sound clips. They're well worth finding.