<p>sueinphilly only quoted the second best line from Pink Floyd’s “Time”</p>
<p>And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but its sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you’re older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death</p>
<p>oh …that is one of my all time faves now!!..same as it ever was…same as it ever was…the whole you may ask urself…is this ur beautiful house, wife, kids…haha…who would have known!! It is a good question, isn’t it? lol</p>
<p>People mock the 70’s…but I say we were way wiser then we’ve been credited for so far!! lol</p>
<p>B Dylan: “Ah, but I was so much older then. I’m younger than now.”</p>
<p>“My Back Pages”</p>
<p>When my first was born he sent me a Talking Heads song. Don’t recall the exact title but the closest I can come is: “Little Critters of Love” about waking up babies in the middle of the night to play with them.</p>
<p>Where are they?</p>
<p>“Who knows where the time goes?” Sandy Denny, Fairport Convention</p>
<p>gadad: Thanks for the link. Truly brilliant.</p>
<p>mythmom you missed:</p>
<p>Teach, your children well
Their father’s hell
Did slowly go by
And feed them on your dreams
The one they pick’s
The one you’ll know by.
Don’t you ever ask them why
If they told you, you would die
So just look at them and sigh
And know they love you.</p>
<p>Crosby, Stills and Nash</p>
<p>mathmom – I just had to read those lyrics and the song began to play. Thanks. Thought of you when I made reservations for dinner after D graduates. We are going to Terrace in the Sky in Butler Hall on Columbia’s campus. Your restaurant stories gave me courage! A goodbye to wonderful Morningside Heights.</p>
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<p>70s? Once in a Lifetime came out in 1981. They were recording by the late 70s, but culturally Talking Heads is much more of an 80s band than 70s.</p>
<p>The 70s get mocked because it’s the decade that gave us Disco, which coming after the fabulous music of the 60s was awfully lame. However, much of the great 60s music actually came out in the very early 70s. The social phenomenon of the 60s does not quite coincide with the calendar decade. It goes from the assassination of President Kennedy to the resignation of President Nixon - from late 1963 to mid-year 1974.</p>
<p>I don’t remember the sixties starting until Feb 1964 when my buds and I went to JFK to welcome the Beatles!!!</p>
<p>Before that, same old fifties thing, IMO.</p>
<p>And I guess I thought the last plane leaving Saigon in 1973 ended the sixties, not Nixon’s resignation.</p>
<p>coureur – hope you don’t mind my quibbles. You’re right, even with my caveats. We essentially agree. Just see through a slightly different prism.</p>
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<p>oops. then the last planes leaving in 1975. Good catch, Sue.</p>
<p>My son loves 70’s rock too. He is so impressed we have all these old albums, so I’m cool too. This reminds me of that funny scene in Squid and The Whale where the son performs that Pink Floyd song for his parents and they are so impressed and ask him if he wrote it and he says yes! It’s funny but completely unrealistic. Who of our generation would not recognize that song??</p>
<p>Feel free to disagree with me, but a lot of the protest punk rock of the 70’s is embodied in the hip-hop of today. </p>
<p>Not the top 40 stuff, but underground, indie hip hop.</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Flobots - Handlebars](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuK2A1ZqoWs]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuK2A1ZqoWs)</p>
<p>I’m going to see David Byrne live this summer - in London.
This Must Be The Place is probably the best song ever written.</p>
<p>I’m sixteen, but I mainly listen to 60ies/70/80ies music.</p>
<p>I’m going to a Depeche Mode concert too, in a couple of weeks,
and I saw Neil Young a while ago (which was amazing)…</p>
<p>I always loved The Talking Heads. I remember the first time I saw them on Saturday Night Live singing " Take Me to the River " I saw them in concert once.
My kid’s Ipods are filled with all kinds of music that mirror my tastes…even the 12 year old. I also learn a few good artists from them as well. This is one ofthe reasons I love Pandora because I get to hear a lot of artists that any radio stations in my area would never play.</p>
<p>Paul Simon’s Slip Slidin’ Away:</p>
<p>And I know a woman
Became a wife
These are the very words she uses to describe her life
She said “A good day ain’t got no rain”
She said “A bad day is when I lie in bed and think of things that might have been”</p>
<p>Didn’t get it then. Sure do get it now.</p>
<p>mythmom: I think you’re combining Talking Heads “Stay up Late” and “Creatures of Love”. The first is about waking/keeping up the cute babies. The other reminds us we are just that, creatures brought about by love. </p>
<p>“Forever Young” by Rod Stewart was the song running through my head last June, expressing my wishes for my graduating daughter.</p>
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While the evacuation process dragged out to 1975 we did sign the Peace Accords in 1973. We had a big sign on the school lawn in 1973, the year I graduated from high school saying “The War is over.”</p>
<p>I forgot about Pink Floyd. Took Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall on this summer’s college road trip. S now loves Dark Side of the Moon, but hates The Wall. D hates both. I guess some things just don’t translate. :)</p>
<p>I like the songs that I fully understood back in the day, and they still strike a chord today. Simple songs, like Mungo Jerry’s “In the Summertime” (7 weeks at number 1, are you kidding me???)</p>
<p>Chh chh-chh, uh Chh chh-chh, uh
Chh chh-chh, uh Chh chh-chh, uh
Chh chh-chh, uh Chh chh-chh, uh
Chh chh-chh, uh Chh chh-chh</p>
<p>(Do you need more than that?? LOL)<br>
In the summertime when the weather is hot
You can stretch right up and touch the sky
When the weather’s fine
You got women, you got women on your mind
Have a drink, have a drive
Go out and see what you can find</p>
<p>(oops! Never really noticed that horrible lyric! “Have a drink, have a drive”… that is terrible)</p>
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<p>Back when the drinking age was 18, we use to be able to drive up to the liquor store, order a drink, have it brought out to us, then drive away drink in hand. This was a sales gimmick used by the liquor store, and it worked well. Can you imagine doing this now? Heck, we have “no open container” laws now.</p>
<p>I LOVE Once in a Lifetime, and the Talking Heads in general. It’s not all depressing, though – remember:
“Time isn’t after us;
Time isn’t holding us . . .”</p>
<p>coureur–thanks for setting the record straight. Talking Heads is pure 80s, even if they started in the 70s. As was said above, “sixties” music started in around 63/64 and ended in the early 70s. “80s” music came out of the punk and new wave of the late 70s, but was not in the mainstream till the 80s.</p>
<p>As far as I can tell, the only really 70s era mainstream music I like is Bruce. I’ll throw Zep in, too. The 70s overall was a wasteland–more shlock per radio station than I’ve ever heard since.</p>
<p>My Shop Rite plays a 70s satellite station. It’s excruciating–Muskrat Love; Gypsies Tramp and Thieves, Torn Between Two Lovers, AFternoon Delight…the list goes on and on, but last night might’ve topped them all: “Daddy Don’t You Walk So Fast.” ugh.</p>
<p>Thank God the 80s came along, and nineties too, for that matter.</p>