Would you please post a song that you love that you think will surprise your fellow Muggers?

That's going to be hard to beat for best song! What a cool song, and it is surprising because it's rap, and I don't think of you with rap. But it's message isn't at all surprising - with how I think of you, at least, buddy. ;)

Thanks for posting this! 

I'm thinking about that 80's band you like of 'Electric Blue' fame here in the US - IceHouse, isn't it? I don't think Snow Patrol is too far a reach. 

I like that song and Snow Patrol. This one appears in my mix on youtube frequently. I like it that much!

 

This is definitely the most surprising so far, Jane! 

Interestingly enough, I was thinking about my own surprising choice and thought about a similar sounding group from the same era as a possibility. I genuinely like this song. 

I love that one! 

It is surprising, since you recently said you're not generally a fan of love songs. Very lovey, that one. :)

True, but when I first heard this I wasn't thinking of that.

Romantic love, you mean? 

Yeah, I don't think I've been into the romantic sort of love song for quite a while. Not that I can't appreciate the genre, of course. But I think you've got to be either in a place of having romantic love in your life or longing for it to fully appreciate mushy, gushy love songs.  

This is a surprising song choice from you, to me, at least. 

 

“But I think you've got to be either in a place of having romantic love in your life or longing for it to fully appreciate mushy, gushy love songs.”
 
  You’ve made a good point here; I have a different angle. Think about how young you were when (or if) you first began hearing popular music in general. Not children’s songs, nursery rhymes, not anything specifically aimed toward very young children, but the types of songs geared toward teens, young adults, adults, etc. Some children are exposed to songs like that because their parents are listening to them, or they’re played in conjunction with a tv show, even some commercials and jingles include lyrics that might not be directly intended for two-year-olds, yet babies and infants and toddlers hear them, pick up on them, and it sometimes helps form the basis for the songs he or she will enjoy in later parts of life or throughout their entire lives.

  I remember a lot of the R&B songs that my mother listened to when I was about two years old, perhaps younger. (Originally, I was going to name the specific songs, but I decided not to because I’d be dating myself.)  Regardless of song type or song genre, many song lyrics capture us because of how they sound, how catchy they are, etc. It doesn’t even matter that the lyrics make sense or not, often they don’t, and in some cases, lyrics in languages we don’t know or don’t understand well are also catchy. This is true for love songs too. I had no idea what romance meant, nor sex, nor romantic love, nor sexual love, nor lust, yet there were numerous song lyrics that included exactly those themes. Innocently singing along with them, falling in love with the tunes and the words, my repertoire for music favorites was formed in my early years, long before I was even capable of truly knowing what was a love song or what it meant to love or desire a person in those ways, or has ever been in a situation outlined in song.

  Fast-forward to the times when I began to get into those situations, and later points when I was “between conquests” (cough, cough).  While a particular song that reminds me of a particular woman or a particular time in my romantic life might not be my cup of tea for the moment at hand, the genre itself is never off-limits to me at all.  For me, I can’t and/or don’t have to be in a romantic place in life to thoroughly enjoy romantic, or sexy, or lusty lyrics. (And that’s not just the Harem-Master in me talking. Grrrrrrr.)

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Good points, and I agree. I said fully appreciate, which I think for me means relate to in a personal way. Maybe. 

The genre is never off-limits to me, either. I only meant that it's been a while since I have heard a new-to-me, romantic love song and really relate to it and fully appreciate it - like, Google the lyrics and see if it becomes one of THOSE songs that I fully appreciate, appreciate. 

Makes perfect sense now, right? 

 

  Yes, thank you. 

(Gee, Granddaughter, is Googling the lyrics of new songs you’ve just heard or just heard about a thing these days? Heck, I remember when we had to wait months and months for lyrics to be published in “Song Hits” magazine or “Tiger Beat” magazine to figure out each word. Even then, those magazines only printed the lyrics for a few songs each issue, and half of them were new songs while the other half were oldies. With the sheer volume of songs being released, we only had access to printed lyrics for about 25% of them. I’m telling you, you whippersnappers these days . . . )

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Or by buy the album and hope the lyrics are in the liner notes. Or tape the song from the radio and play it over and over again until you know them. Or sing them wrong in front of your friends and someone laughs and says "It doesn't say 'Hold me closer Tony Danza', it's tiny dancer you dumba$$"!

If for nothing else, I couldn't live without Google for the maps and for song lyrics. 

(That sentence sounds awkward, but I don't feel like restructuring it. I'm just going to leave it to annoy Stu.)

I appreciate that you post the lyrics here frequently. I just about have YouTube trained to default me to videos with lyrics when I look up a song! See, there are useful things about the constant monitoring of every stroke we take on the ole' keyboard!  This post was edited by SavvyAnsley at October 23, 2022 7:03 AM MDT

Talk about dating myself, one song that's been buzzing in my head recently is:

Who's that coming down the street?
Are they shovels or are they feet?
Lean and lanky, skin and bone
With clothes a scarecrow would hate to own...

Bing Crosby on Disney's "Adventures of Ichabod Crane"

I picture you really digging this song in 1970, Spunky! I think coming of age in the 60's/70's would have been really been something. 

Thanks for sharing. The message is certainly surprising from you! :)

I still dig this song.  In fact, when I hear it in the car on the highway, I open the windows and turn it up full blast.  I thought you'd find it surprising. :)

Jew for Jesus, eh?

Not me - I just happen to like the beat. :)

I like it, too. One hit wonder.

I preferred Doctor and the Medics' cover of that one. Greenbaum didn't quite get the "fuzz box" (producing the distort and overdrive effects) quite right, "de-tuning" a valve amp is tricky (it took George Harrison months to get the balance right for Revolution and Helter Skelter). As a result, there are feedback issues throughout. Steve McGuire had the advantage of effects pedals, which hadn't been invented in the sixties.

I'll take your word for it. :)