Comments on: As the Decade Passes

By: Billy Angel

Billy Angel — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:51:26 +0000

Yeah, I really like Old-Fashioned Morphine. My wife’s a former professional singer and introduced me to Lisboa Kuya. Great listz among other great listzs.

By: tondo

tondo — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:49:07 +0000

i’d consider a song’s relevance to current events, and its impact on people more important. aesthetic effect shouldn’t matter as much- otherwise it wouldn’t be specific to this decade.

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:10:38 +0000

I agree that It couldn’t possible as simple as “I like it, and that’s what memorable,” but many of the songs I best remember have provoked intense and immediate ‘positive’ feelings from their first playing. (Often, the feeling of ‘liking’ occurs within the first couple of bars or seconds of introduction. I become aware that I’m in for something very special — that I’ll be personally altered by the piece’s end.)

I’ve often compared the way I, a performer, relate to music with the way I, a performer, relate to people. Sometimes, time, effort, and understanding is required in order to come to love either; sometimes, even then, love is not achieved. (And by no means is the feeling of love a requirement of musical appreciation.) Occasionally, though, I hear something that immediately strikes a chord within me (pun most definitely intended) or meet someone to whom I feel an immediate aesthetic / emotional / intellectual resonance.

Assuming that what I’ve described can be applied to other persons — whether this sentiment stems from a gained sense of self-validation or attraction to novelty depends on the individual having the experience and the context in which the experience is had. Either way, a visceral response is involved; and this response is conducive to the formation of memory.

By: TC

TC — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:26:43 +0000

I think that’s precisely it. There are going to be as many lists as the number of people who make them :) When I read any sort of a list or ranking, I usually accept and appreciate it as the subjective opinion of the person who made it.

Cheers!!
TC ^_^

By: Moka

Moka — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:40:04 +0000

Lol was about to suggest Romance and Jolie Holland’s Old Fashioned Morphine on the elbows forum.

I think that the main factor to consider has to be how much the song defines the sound of a decade, how much it evokes it and being optimistic, how much sphere of influence has that specifical song or artist had over other artists. Course I always get biased on my own memories I share with a specifical song and forget about this.

By: squashed

squashed — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:40:39 +0000

I wonder if the pictures are weirding people out... heh. Joolie Holland Tom waits "Hold on"