Let's Dance!
When I went to NYC the end of June it was the first time I'd had my Ipod Nano out in real life. The sound that comes out of that little thing is amazing and it made all the airport waiting go much faster. One problem, however, is not looking like a nut case while listening and, more importantly, not singing or 'conducting the orchestra' while listening. It's hard sitting there sphinx like while your fave music is playing loudly in stereo in your ears.
Anyway, to get to the subject, here are a few pop songs which I find it very difficult to just sit there and listen to:
1. Earth, Wind, and Fire - Fantasy -- This is just one of those well crafted songs with a good melody, good harmony, good beat and great lyrics. Hard to sit still.
2. After the Fleadh/Running through the Woods with Keatu on Paul Winter's Celtic Solstice album. This is an old fashioned round type of a song. It just begs for a maypole or at least a line dance or circle dance. Believe I've said before it desperately wants to be Rock and Roll but it restrains itself. This never appears on one of Winter's Great Hits album and it's one of my favorites.
3. Heart of Rock and Roll - Huey Lewis and the News -- This is a great, good old fashioned Rock and Roll tune of the kind we danced to in the late fifties, ala Rock Around the Clock. Gotta at least tap your foot.
4. Riders to the Stars - Manilow - Boxed Set -- Barry says in the liner notes this song just never turned out right but this live concert recording does it for me. Like much of Manilow, it's a hopeful, uplifting tune; unlike Manilow it really is Rock and Roll, and he crafts a fine R & R tune, however sparingly he does it.
5. Piazzolla -- I have just discovered Astor Piazzolla, quite by accident. He plays an Argentine concertina (bandoneon) and when I heard on the radio his 'Five Tango Sensations' (2. Loving) with the Kronos quartet, I dropped everything and got on Amazon to order the album. Don't have a partner or anyone to teach me, but can see where Tango could be very addictive.
6. And the greatest pop song to make you dance -- Good Vibrations (of course) by the Beachboys
Anyway, to get to the subject, here are a few pop songs which I find it very difficult to just sit there and listen to:
1. Earth, Wind, and Fire - Fantasy -- This is just one of those well crafted songs with a good melody, good harmony, good beat and great lyrics. Hard to sit still.
2. After the Fleadh/Running through the Woods with Keatu on Paul Winter's Celtic Solstice album. This is an old fashioned round type of a song. It just begs for a maypole or at least a line dance or circle dance. Believe I've said before it desperately wants to be Rock and Roll but it restrains itself. This never appears on one of Winter's Great Hits album and it's one of my favorites.
3. Heart of Rock and Roll - Huey Lewis and the News -- This is a great, good old fashioned Rock and Roll tune of the kind we danced to in the late fifties, ala Rock Around the Clock. Gotta at least tap your foot.
4. Riders to the Stars - Manilow - Boxed Set -- Barry says in the liner notes this song just never turned out right but this live concert recording does it for me. Like much of Manilow, it's a hopeful, uplifting tune; unlike Manilow it really is Rock and Roll, and he crafts a fine R & R tune, however sparingly he does it.
5. Piazzolla -- I have just discovered Astor Piazzolla, quite by accident. He plays an Argentine concertina (bandoneon) and when I heard on the radio his 'Five Tango Sensations' (2. Loving) with the Kronos quartet, I dropped everything and got on Amazon to order the album. Don't have a partner or anyone to teach me, but can see where Tango could be very addictive.
6. And the greatest pop song to make you dance -- Good Vibrations (of course) by the Beachboys
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