Goat Boy wrote:K wrote:Total Eclipse of the Heart?
Christ, nostalgia has a lot to answer for.
I was too young to really remember it when it first came out.
Some records just have the right
moves and, shit, that record has some moves.
Context is all. I'll not unhappily listen now to stuff I dismissed as embarrasing drivel back in my so loud days (clever wording, cheers) because it's removed from whatever bee was exercising in my bonnet back then, and I can appreciate what came out of it, and its place in developments I was not aware of at the tome.
Not Reg Rock of course, with it's let's-get-away-from-sex-drugs-and-rebellion-and-into-the-comforting-embrace-of-Nanny-and-the-nursery,-and-show-mummy-how-clever-we-are,-not-like-those-nasty-rock-boys vibe; that one's in the garderobe/oubliette for good. But all sorts of other things I only learned to appreciate in hindsight.
In timeless moments we live forever
You can't play a tune on an absolute
Negative Capability...when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason”