Music that represents its turning

[Eric the Green]

(09-14-2022, 12:05 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(09-13-2022, 04:00 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I feel so privileged to have come of age in a 2T rather than a 3T. The musical difference says it all

Not bad for the 3T tho  The cops are hugely afraid of these dudes, they might have a gun, so they kill 'em. 4T too!

In the 2T for a Boom audience, popular musicians often put some didactic content into their creations. That ended in the late 1970's with disco, which is pure, unadulterated hedonism in music perfect for copulation and nothing else. (Does anyone have any positive thing to say about disco?)

Not me. Some people in the T4T/Generations universe have done so.

The thing about the 2T popular music for the Boomer audience, especially in the 1963-1973 period, is not only didactic content or other lyrics, but the musicianship and the arrangements of the music were frequently top-notch. Not always, but often. Certainly it was in the music I like from the period, such as the 5D one above. The orchestras and the session musicians as well as the lead and bass guitarists and keyboard players heard in these records were as sensitive and talented as in the classical music genre or the big band era. Some of them actually came from the big bands, like those who created the Motown Sound. There was a large group that many artists called on in the LA area, and many others in the most-musical cities in the USA and elsewhere. The best pop music from this era is not to be missed.

http://philosopherswheel.com/ericrock.html

Just one such grammy-winning record I recently posted elsewhere is this escapist classic written by Fred Neil and performed excellently by singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson, a song very representative of the 2T-- especially as the theme music for the iconic oscar-winning movie Midnight Cowboy. You can scarecly find a more sensitive and evocative orchestral backing for Nilsson's amazing vocals and Neil's melody and lyrics.