{"id":8089,"date":"2014-03-08T17:54:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T17:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/03\/08\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-unrequited-and-lost-love\/"},"modified":"2014-03-08T17:54:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T17:54:31","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-unrequited-and-lost-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/03\/08\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-unrequited-and-lost-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Unrequited and Lost Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here a few of many I like.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Left Banke, Walk Away Renee<\/a>, 1966.  This song is the personal soundtrack to  40-year-old memories of a woman, older than me, whom I loved from afar, a love never revealed to its object.  Does hidden love count as unrequited love?<\/span><\/p>\n

The Left Banke, Pretty Ballerina<\/a>, 1967<\/span><\/p>\n

Don Gibson, Sea of a Heartbreak<\/a>, a country-rock crossover hit from 1961, and one of the best.  Underplayed.  I heard it in '61, and didn't hear it again until '89.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elvis Presley, Return to Sender<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Lenny Welch, Since I Fell for You<\/a>, 1963.  You say it's sentimental?  Well, what would life be without sentiment and feeling?  Qualia are what make life worth living, as a philosopher might put it.  It would be interesting to try to figure out just what sentimentality is, and what is wrong with it.  <\/span><\/p>\n

One self-indulgently 'wallows' in a sentimental song, giving into its 'cheap' emotions. The emotions are 'false' and 'faked.' The melody and lyrics are formulaic and predictable, 'catchy.' The listener allows himself to be manipulated by the songwriter who is out to 'push the listener's buttons.' The aesthetic experience is not authentic but vicarious. And so on. Adorno would not approve.
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Here a few of many I like. The Left Banke, Walk Away Renee, 1966.  This song is the personal soundtrack to  40-year-old memories of a woman, older than me, whom I loved from afar, a love never revealed to its object.  Does hidden love count as unrequited love? The Left Banke, Pretty Ballerina, 1967 Don … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Unrequited and Lost Love”<\/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-8089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089","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=8089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}