More Oldies But Goodies

Here are some more “oldies but goodies” for you to enjoy, readers! Is it just me, or is this stuff better than a lot of the newer music being produced by a lot of companies today?

Don’t get me wrong – I like several new artists very, very much. But they’re few and far between; music like this just strikes a better chord with me. (Pun intended, more or less.) There’s just something about these songs that makes them superior to a lot of the new noise being created now, in my opinion.

Anyway, here are some “retro” tunes to brighten your day, readers. Enjoy!

The Mithril Guardian

 

All Out of Love – Air Supply

 

Making Love Out of Nothing at All – Air Supply

 

It’s All Been Done – Barenaked Ladies

 

Better Not Look Down – BB King

 

The Tide Is High – Blondie

 

One Way or Another – Blondie

 

You’ve Made Me So Very Happy – Blood, Sweat, & Tears

 

Three Is a Magic Number – Bob Dorough

 

Right On My Way Home – Bob Dorough

 

You’re So Vain – Carly Simon

 

Peggy Sue – Buddy Holly

 

You Might Think – The Cars

 

I Want Candy – Bow Wow Wow

‘I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day’

BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

 

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.

What hours, O what black hours we have spent

This night! what sights you, heart, saw; ways you went!

And more must, in yet longer light’s delay.

   With witness I speak this. But where I say

Hours I mean years, mean life. And my lament

Is cries countless, cries like dead letters sent

To dearest him that lives alas! away.

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   I am gall, I am heartburn. God’s most deep decree

Bitter would have me taste: my taste was me;

Bones built in me, flesh filled, blood brimmed the curse.

   Selfyeast of spirit a dull dough sours. I see

The lost are like this, and their scourge to be

As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.