So when I'm not scouting out new new music, I like to listen to the stuff our parents listened to. The classics. The basis for all good music today. Sometimes when I go out searching for 60's and 70's music, I feel like I was born in the wrong decade.
Anyways, my latest favorite from years past are the Talking Heads. I'm kind of in love. Their music ranges from thumping dance tunes with apocalyptic lyrics (Life During Wartime) to twinkling synth tunes I'd listen to on a day at the beach (This Must Be The Place). The sound is so innovative for it's time and even way ahead of stuff today. David Byrne's voice spits out the lyrics effortlessly, on a flow of consciousness. I've read that sometimes the takes for lyrics were all improvised. Damn.
What I love is it's ability to link two time periods that are only separated by time. On the drive home from LAX from dropping my mom and sister off on their vacation, I was given musical freedom on the drive home. Which is great because my dad loves my music. I put on Life During Wartime and you should have seen how he lit up. He was smiling and moving to the music. "I used to listen to this song in college!" he exclaimed excitedly. He proceeded to tell me how this was the party song of the time and how his friends saw them in concert. He opened up a flood of memories and perspective into the period of his life that I am living right now. It was the neatest thing. How one simple song could, after all these years, have a relevance in both of our lives.
Only further proof as to why music is the greatest thing that manages to exist on earth. It's magical in its own way.
Youtube - Life During Wartime
Youtube - This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
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