Songs like this are so decadently good that I think they served to kind of create unrealistic expectations on the part of those young people who were religiously listening to them. Specifically, they had the effect of getting inside their head and making them think they were more substantial then what they maybe really were. It's like this one guy said, years ago, when we were sitting around listening to music.. He said that listening to the Beatles as a kid, causes you to grow up too fast. For me, what I was listening to, to expand upon that thought, it was all along the lines of the types of songs you'd hear on the soundtrack to a Scorsese film. Clapton, Stones, Beatles, Cream, Roxy Music.. plus stuff like Steely Dan, the Dead, the Eagles, Bowie, Neil Young, the Allmans, etc.. all this stuff that had a pretty heavy, decadent, many times dark, and almost, at times, a criminal overtone to it. Not exactly the kind of stuff that if you took it seriously would inspire you to live life at the foot of the cross. Anyway, I think there is a funny psychological mechanism there that I noticed over time. It's worth understanding as one goes back to trace their path in order to be better in order to learn more about how the mind can work, espcially during the early, more formative years. And how that can lend one advantages in the present, as well. All things to people like EC!
Songs like this are so decadently good that I think they served to kind of create unrealistic expectations on the part of those young people who were religiously listening to them. Specifically, they had the effect of getting inside their head and making them think they were more substantial then what they maybe really were. It's like this one guy said, years ago, when we were sitting around listening to music.. He said that listening to the Beatles as a kid, causes you to grow up too fast. For me, what I was listening to, to expand upon that thought, it was all along the lines of the types of songs you'd hear on the soundtrack to a Scorsese film. Clapton, Stones, Beatles, Cream, Roxy Music.. plus stuff like Steely Dan, the Dead, the Eagles, Bowie, Neil Young, the Allmans, etc.. all this stuff that had a pretty heavy, decadent, many times dark, and almost, at times, a criminal overtone to it. Not exactly the kind of stuff that if you took it seriously would inspire you to live life at the foot of the cross. Anyway, I think there is a funny psychological mechanism there that I noticed over time. It's worth understanding as one goes back to trace their path in order to be better in order to learn more about how the mind can work, espcially during the early, more formative years. And how that can lend one advantages in the present, as well. All things to people like EC!