Today is the first day of one of those weekends that just requires one to do nothing but stay in, crank on some tunes, eat endlessly and sit with a blank stare. I love it. I need it. I’m doing it.
This weekend is all about the masters of modern music...those great voices that so clearly have defined all music since the 1950s...the voices that you just know the second you hear. Seems we don’t get too many of those anymore...not in the last 15 years or so. Oh yeah yeah yeah...I know...that is old fogie talk. Eh. Maybe...but I’m right. Check out my 2 new jukeboxes and tell me if there is one singer on either that doesn’t have that "forever" quality. I dare you.
Oh yeah...some of these greats are still singing but most of the songs I chose (with the exception of a few singers who can just knock em out no matter the decade), I stuck to songs pretty much pre-1980s. Huh. I have major issues with 80s music and a lot of 90s music...but especially 80s music. I went to high school in the early 80s (hush). I love the very early 80s classic rock songs (Journey, Billy Squire, Rossington Collins, Zeppelin, even Billy Idol etc...). I don’t do the other stuff very well. When we started having to listen to The Bangles and Flock of Seagulls and crap like that...I tuned out and went back to the good stuff from the late 60s and 70s. I am a huge Kenny Loggins fan. The man is a musical genius...one of maybe 10 ever in my opinion...but jaysus already with his 80s stuff. When I hear his 80s music, I automatically think of movies like "The Breakfast Club" and my body starts to recreate that white suburb girl dance that Molly Ringwald did in the movie. You know the one...where it looks like she’s running in place kinda. Anyway...it’s just not regular for that to happen to me and it just happened a bit ago and now my co-workers have ammo with which to blackmail me in the future.
Moving on. Yeah. I love Kenny Loggins but do NOT play "Danger Zone" around me or I’ll pummel you. Michael McDonald might be the only master voice that has credible 80s songs. Let me think. Yep. Wait. Boz Scaggs had one or two. Rod Stewart bombed BIG TIME, as did Elton John, as did Billy Joel. Billy Joel really was in his prime in ’77 (The Stranger) and ’78 (52nd Street)...working too hard can give you a heart attack, ack, ack, ack...you ought to know by now...who needs a house out in Hackensack...is that all you get for your money...oh it seems such a waste of time...if that’s what it’s all about...Momma, if that’s moving up then I’mmmmmmmmmmmm...moving out.
See? Was I right or what? Yeah baby.
So anyway...great weekend filled with great music and great food and no cares in the world. It doesn’t get any better than that.
P.S. Awww drats...I forgot to add DeBarge!
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