My favorite Michael Franks album is "Dragonfly Summer".

Favorite tune on it..."I love Lucy"

Ian

Must be good, he's always surround him self with great musician. some of my favorite would be "Mr Blue", "St Elmo's fire", Tiger in the rain and "The lady wants to know"

Who on earth says you have to listen to what is 'popular' at the time...?

I hate to say it, but many of you have probably forgotten what a pile of whaledreck surrounded the little music that we remember as our favorites from ANY period.

You had to wade through some awful rubbish back then to find the nuggets, and you have to do the same now... But maybe now you haven't the patience, or the inquisitiveness, or the sheer DRIVE to try and find the best of what is around any more...

And that is a sad loss...

The internet has made it easier than it has EVER been to find artists that challenge you, music that surprises you, a new path through the same old changes. But you have to USE IT...

Rather than sit around and woolgather, and reminisce about the 'good old days' that never WERE that good!

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Diki....maybe for you in your opinion they weren't the "good old days" .....but to millions including myself feel the VERY opposite. Now Im only 52 & have my era of music I love Doo Wop 50's/60's, & can only listen to and dream of how great it must have been to see the Big Bands & Singers like Sinatra, Connie Haines (who I recently saw at the Tropicana Casino in her 80's perform she was the girl singer for Tommy Dorsey) & dance to them, and watch some of the greatest live musicians on the planet do their thing. Buddy Rich, Gene Kruppa, Lionell Hampton, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington & the list goes on & on & so does their music. I'm glad I have the choice to listen to my favorites.
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Now wheres my headphones?.....

Ian, thanks so much. nice song

what's wrong with "good old days" btw, when you mentioned a terrific piece"A remak you've made" when Zawinul passed away, wasn't that a good old day as well......

So who's the authority to say what's good and what's "'good old days' that never WERE that good!" you?


Who on earth says you have to listen to "challenging, or new discovery" all the time? People listen to what they like, past, present anything sounds good.

Donny, all I was saying that, for every one of your favorites that you remember from that era (you are too young to have actually been around during the big band and doo-wop heyday, I'm the same age as you!), there were a dozen that were not as good, hackneyed and bland, with poorer material, etc., etc..

In fact, the very music that you prefer had ALREADY gone through the filtering process of time, before you even got into it! The good remains and the bad gets forgotten. But if you listen to CONTEMPORARY music, that filter has not yet been applied.

But good and interesting current music DOES exist. Unfortunately, no-one has done the filtering, yet, so you have to wade through the slime to get to the good stuff. If that's too much to have to do, you may have to wait ten or twenty years to find out what was good in the early 21st century!

Me, I can't wait that long...

Read the damn post before you get worked up, Shade...

No-one said you need to listen to anything new "ALL THE TIME". You quote me, don't ADD things to what I say and then get mad about what you added!

And for every tune from ANY period you like, I guarantee I can find something popular FROM THAT TIME that you hate. The 'good old days' were not without their really bad artists, songs and styles, just like today...

Feel free to change what I just wrote, and get mad about that, too...