> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:17:57 -0700 > From: Drew MacDonald > To: audities@smoe.org > Subject: Re: _____ are my Beatles - am I missing something > here? > Message-ID: <5603c5fd0907311217h470429bay1e1731a06b41618f@mail.gmail.com> > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Stewart Mason 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 Drew, I am adding "Wrong Things About Love We Learned From Jackson Browne" to my list of song titles that I need to turn into songs someday. Gregory Sager