{"id":6869,"date":"2015-11-07T17:01:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T17:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/11\/07\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-loneliness\/"},"modified":"2015-11-07T17:01:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T17:01:29","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-loneliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/11\/07\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-loneliness\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Loneliness"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are so many songs under this rubric.  Here are some of the less sentimental and schmaltzy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Love, Alone Again Or<\/a>.  Yet another proof that in American popular music, no decade beats the '60s.<\/span><\/p>\n

Simon and Garfunkel, The Boxer<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Tom Waits, Better Off Without a Wife<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Beatles, Eleanor Rigby<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Harry Nilsson, One<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

It's not easy avoiding the sentimental.  But what, exactly, is wrong with sentiment?  Let's not pursue it.  To hell with Adorno.  It's Saturday night.  Time to feel, not think.<\/span><\/p>\n

Floyd Cramer, Last Date<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Linda Ronstadt, Faithless Love<\/a>.  J. D. Souther wrote it<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

John Fogerty, You're the Reason<\/a>.  A crossover hit for Bobby Edwards<\/a> in 1961.<\/span><\/p>\n

I almost forgot the great Don Gibson<\/span><\/p>\n

Sea of a Heartbreak<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Oh Lonesome Me<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Sweet Dreams<\/a>.  Patsy Cline's version<\/a>.  And while we have Patsy cued up:<\/span><\/p>\n

She's Got You<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Retreating from the sentimental to the surreal, another indisputable proof of the vast pop-music superiority of the '60s:<\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Dylan, Visions of Johanna<\/a>.  Marianne Faithfull's effort<\/a>.  <\/span><\/p>\n

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There are so many songs under this rubric.  Here are some of the less sentimental and schmaltzy. Love, Alone Again Or.  Yet another proof that in American popular music, no decade beats the '60s. Simon and Garfunkel, The Boxer Tom Waits, Better Off Without a Wife Beatles, Eleanor Rigby Harry Nilsson, One It's not easy … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Loneliness”<\/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-6869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869","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=6869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}