Never Too Old

Mood: Annoyed

Listening to: “I’m Me” – Lil Wayne and a variety of oldies

Eating Drinking: Waffle Pretzels and Diet Snapple Peach Tea

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Basically, I’m in love with oldies so I’d like to give a list of my favorites. I’ve never really understood why people wouldn’t like them. If you’re in love with an artist, doesn’t it make sense to be in love with the band or singer who was their inspiration? The music of today comes from the music of the past. There’s no getting around that. To me, oldies are classics for a reason; they’re great, to put in quite simply.

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Pardon this tangent I’m about to go off on; I’ve got to get this off my chest.

Recently, I was with a group of people and we were talking about artists who have “sold out". One girl's example was Sufjan, which kind of bugged me because I still love him. So I got kind of defensive but I tried to tell myself to just chill out and listen to what she had to say. She argued that his music wasn’t as special as it had once been. That’s when I started to get annoyed. So popularity immediately turns something bad? It’s always annoyed the shit out of me when people are overly focused on being different. Maybe another example will help.

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Let’s say you like this sick indie band. Everything about them is great; their lyrics kick ass, their melodies are unique and they seem like really nice people. Cool. Then you share them with a friend and that friend shares it with another friend and before you know it, they're everywhere. Suddenly their lyrics become so cliché to you...even though it's the exact same song you were obsessed with two months ago. I just don't get it. What I do get is getting upset with a band if they sell out from the popularity; they change to a more poppy sound, suddenly every single song becomes about love and they never leave home without their hipster glasses. I get why there's a reason to be upset with that, but I think it's important to give the band the benefit of the doubt, don't you? Have a little faith.

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People can be so busy making sure they’re nothing like anyone else that they aren’t even themselves. News flash: it doesn’t impress anyone that you’re so unique, it’s just obnoxious. In my opinion, if something is popular, it’s for a good reason—a lot of people agree that it’s good. So here’s what I have to say: like what you like, whether you’re the only one or one of many. As Lil Wayne would say, “I’m Me”. (How ironic is it that this song came up on shuffle as I was writing this?)

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To bring this all back to oldies, those songs were popular for a reason and it’s lame not to like them simply because a lot of other people do. Have a legitimate reason.

Thanks for stickin’ that out with me. Here’s my aforementioned list (in no order with various release dates). Not all are oldies exactly, but they're still classics to me.

1. "Delia's Gone" - Johnny Cash
2. "You Make My Dreams" - Hall & Oates
3. "Don't Stop Me Now" - Queen
4. "Alison" - Elvis Costello
5. "In the Ghetto" - Elvis Presley
6. "Comfortably Numb" - Pink Floyd
7. "Do You Love Me?" - The Contours
8. "Ain't To Proud To Beg" - The Temptations
9. "Sherry" Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons
10. "Blowin' In the Wind" - Bob Dylan
11. "Ten years Gone" - Led Zeppelin
12. "Saturday In the Park" - Chicago
13. "The Way You Make Me Feel" - Michael Jackson
14. "Love Child" - The Supremes
15. "Good Lovin'" - The Rascals
16. "Brown Eyed Girl " - Van Morrison
17. "Don't Look Back" - Boston
18. "Hallelujah" - Jeff Buckley
19. "I'm A Believer" - The Monkees
20. "Sweet Caroline" - Neil Diamond
21. "Crocodile Rock" - Elton John
22. "Reelin' In The Years" - Steely Dan
23. "Baby In Black" - The Beatles
24. "Barbara Ann" - The Beach Boys
25. "Isn't She Lovely" - Stevie Wonder
26. "Blister In the Sun" - Violent Femmes
27. "At Last" - Etta James
28. "Three Little Birds" - Bob Marley
29. "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" - Manfred Mann
30. "Oh, Pretty Woman" - Roy Orbison
31. "I Wish I Knew" - Nina Simone

There are SOOOO many more I would've put but I don't want this post to become completely rediculous. I basically just went through my itunes and selected some random good ones.