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| From | Drew MacDonald <drewmacdonald1@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: _____ are my Beatles - am I missing something here? |
| Date | Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:17:57 -0700 |
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Stewart Mason <craigtorso@verizon.net>wrote:
>
> Can't speak for anybody else, but in my own case, I never looked to pop
> music to teach me the big life lessons. Not to say it's not important to me
> -- obviously it is, given that I've built a career around it -- but music is
> important to me in and of itself, not as a philosophical conduit.
That's the way I feel now, but back in the day...
It may be a music-will-change-the-world generational thing (I'm a tail-end
Boomer) but I confess I over-invested intellectually and emotionally in pop
music, especially the work the more articulate lyricists. A former
girlfriend and I once put together an informal list of Wrong Things About
Love We Learned From Jackson Browne.
Drew
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