{"id":32,"date":"2025-08-16T16:50:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T16:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/16\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-seven-from-the-seventies\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T16:50:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T16:50:49","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-seven-from-the-seventies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/16\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-seven-from-the-seventies\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Seven from the ‘Seventies"},"content":{"rendered":"

I'm a 'sixties guy but I can relate to some of the 'seventies stuff. When the 'seventies rolled around I began tuning out popular music and began giving myself an education in classical music, the original 'long-haired' music.  Classical, however, with its dynamic variations, is no good for the road, leastways not in the Jeeps I drive. So, it's popular music for purposes of  the road and Saturday night nostalgia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bellamy Brothers, Let Your Love Flow<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Jackson Browne, Running on Empty<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Eagles, Hotel California<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Abba, Fernando<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Gerry Rafferty, Baker Street<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Warren Zevon, <\/span>Carmelita<\/a><\/p>\n

YouTuber interpretation: <\/span><\/p>\n

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After listening to this song for a while, I think that Carmelita is the heroin itself. Warren talks about being with "her in Ensenada" but he's alone in Echo Park playing "solitaire". Shooting heroin makes him feel like he's on the beach in Mexico with a woman that he loves. The song itself is a great representation of what addiction does. He knows that it's not good for him but he has given up on trying to get better and just looks towards "Carmelita" to hold him tighter.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Billy Joel, Piano Man<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I'm a 'sixties guy but I can relate to some of the 'seventies stuff. When the 'seventies rolled around I began tuning out popular music and began giving myself an education in classical music, the original 'long-haired' music.  Classical, however, with its dynamic variations, is no good for the road, leastways not in the Jeeps … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Seven from the ‘Seventies”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","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=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}