<p>yawn–I think the point was the OP picked decades that CC’ers have lived through. you can know and love music from earlier eras, but you are unlikely to really get the gestalt of those times unless you’ve really been a serious student of the culture. I don’t think the thread represents some kind of group disability.</p>
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<p>only sometimes?</p>
<p>^ Well, every now and then I’ll come across a ragtime CD on Amazon that has a full two or three reviews, so I know there’s got to be at least <em>someone</em> else out there listening to them. :)</p>
<p>This excellent CD has music from as early as 1225 BC, and it has a full four reviews!:</p>
<p>[Amazon.com:</a> Music of the Ancient Sumerians, Egyptians and Greeks: Ensemble De Organographia, Philip Neuman, Gayle Stuwe Neuman: Music](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Music-Ancient-Sumerians-Egyptians-Greeks/dp/B000044U1S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1243977199&sr=8-1]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Music-Ancient-Sumerians-Egyptians-Greeks/dp/B000044U1S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1243977199&sr=8-1)</p>
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<p>“Girls” was a big hit in early 84. “Hungry” a rape song? Gee, I read the lyrics and didn’t see that at all. Clearly, the singer is pursuing a female[my wording], but don’t we often use that phrase and NOT mean the threat of unwanted physical violence/rape? In fact, the singer asks if she wants him, give him a sign. Here again, I think it is clear the singer wants to have sex with her, and one might debate the morals of what is probably 2 unmarried adults having sex, but I don’t see anything in there that indicates he intends to rape her against her will.
Some feel “Every breath you take” was about a peeping tom, or a stalker. Many explanations too, for Lucy in the Sky, and I’m sure there are many others.</p>
<p>I once played a dance(in my DJ days) for a Catholic girls school. The teacher forbade me from playing Huey Lewis’ “I want a new drug”. She didn’t know the lyrics, and misunderstood the meaning based on the title, and thought the song meant that the singer wanted to take a new illicit drug that he hadn’t had before, because he was tired of the usual ones.</p>
<p>YH–I think I get that partly from the background sounds which sound awfully like a woman in distress, and partly from the video which, IIRC, made it pretty obvious.</p>
<p>What was the video in 88 or 89 that Madonna got basically banned for, it was not Papa don’t preach.</p>
<p>Can I play, too?</p>
<p>60’s- early- Satisfaction, Rolling Stones
60’s late- Day in the Life, Beatles
Sounds of Silence, Simon and Garfunkel
Album- Are You Experienced, Jimi Hendrix (I remember exactly where I was when I heard that music for the first time, I’d never heard anything like it.)
70’s, 80’s 90’s for me is about tradtional Celtic, Gaelic, Appalachian, Bluegrass and Blues.
For the 2000’s, how about Mr. Dylan’s two newest, and Wyclef Jean- Carnival (maybe that’s 90’s)</p>
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<p>“Like a Prayer”</p>
<p>^my favorite Madonna song. And a beautiful video, too.</p>