{"id":1788,"date":"2022-11-05T17:19:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T17:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/05\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-rock-and-roll-apologetics\/"},"modified":"2022-11-05T17:19:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T17:19:42","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-rock-and-roll-apologetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/05\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-rock-and-roll-apologetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Rock and Roll Apologetics"},"content":{"rendered":"

A curious sub-genre of meta-rock devoted to the defense of the devil's music.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Showmen, It Will Stand<\/a>, 1961 <\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Seger, Old-Time Rock and Roll<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

But does it really "soothe the soul"? Is it supposed to?  For soul-soothing, I recommend the Adagio movement<\/a> of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Adagio molto e cantabile<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rolling Stones, It's Only Rock and Roll (but I Like It)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Electric Light Orchestra, Roll Over, Beethoven<\/a>.  Amazingly good.  Roll over, Chuck Berry<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n

Danny and the Juniors, Rock and Roll is Here to Stay<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Chuck Berry and Friends, Rock and Roll Music<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Off-topic bonus cut:  The Chantels, Look in My Eyes<\/a>, 1961.  YouTuber comment: "Emanating from the Heart Chakra. Something pop songs rarely do anymore. Feel it?" The popular music of this period had human meaning, coming from the heart and speaking to the heart, even when it passed over into schmaltz and sentimentality.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A curious sub-genre of meta-rock devoted to the defense of the devil's music. The Showmen, It Will Stand, 1961  Bob Seger, Old-Time Rock and Roll But does it really "soothe the soul"? Is it supposed to?  For soul-soothing, I recommend the Adagio movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Adagio molto e cantabile. Rolling Stones, It's Only Rock and Roll (but I Like … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Rock and Roll Apologetics”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}