Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for February 25, 2018

Some of the best music ever written and performed. Yea, yea, yea it’s true!

I try to stay away from judging music as “good” or “bad”…I prefer to say I “like” a band’s songs. I mean I like lots of songs that people generally consider “bad”, like “We Built This City”.

I grew up in the 70’s, so music that appeals to me has catchy melodies and quirky lyrics. That puts me firmly in the Elton John fan club…but I do like 3 Beatles songs: “Norwegian Wood”, “Eleanor Rigby”, and “Paperback Writer”.

Time is the true measure of music. Most of the music we hear today will be gone tomorrow. Just as most of the music we’ve heard in the past is forgotten.

More of a Stones man, myself (at the time).

Mind blown.

Growing up in the fifties & early sixties, I was sad to see the Beatles push the Beachboys, Motown, and Frankey Valli off the charts.

The Beatles came on the scene at the right time with the right music for the times borrowing ideas from many previously talented musicians who never quite got it all put together like they did. Many songs were great, some not so but they filled albums at the time when 45’s were on the way out as a result. One song for an artist was not quite enough as albums were the bigger trend, along with great artwork. All talented in their own way, and collectively managed to pull it off, but all very different men to be sure. Whenever i hear their music today it reminds me of a younger and simpler time in a very complicated decade. I have about 90% of their material on both vinyl, tape and CD’s.

…..if you know what I mean

and the way she looked was way beyond compare……..

When my daughter was entering her teens she was listening to stuff like Slipknot and Korn. I suggested that if she wanted excitement she could listen to The Clash, if she wanted outrage then Alice Cooper did outrage as competently as Marilyn Manson and threw in actual tunes as a bonus. She looked at me with contempt and said “I don’t want to listen to music from the olden days”. I’d have given up on her if I hadn’t had to go up to her room at regular intervals and retrieve all my Beatles CDs.

Nothing can compare with the early Beatles. I didn’t like them as much after around 1967 but their early stuff can’t be beat.

Not everybody was thrilled by the Beetles, but they were a landmark inn pop music for over a decade, and some of their music has persisted. Even today, you have younger people discovering and enjoying their music.

Each generation has their music that they enjoy. Some is good and endures and some just doesn’t last. The same can be said about the music my daughter listens to. She likes some of the contemporary music, but has a love for Carman, Phil Keaggy, Bill Gaither and others. This gladdens my heart in that she has developed a wide range in the styles of music she enjoys.

Go, Clayton! Don’t give in, stick to your guns! Just nod and agree so that your barely employable, layabout, idiot father will leave you alone… and then go listen to whatever YOU like afterward. Whatever it is, it’s got to be better than the Beatles. It’s fun to read this comic strip to watch Adam fail miserably at life while his family thrives around him despite his pathetic nature and utter lack of drive and creativity – Clayton especially shows that the apple really can fall far from the tree, with his creative and profitable plasticine monster business! But yeah. NEVER GIVE UP, CLAYTON! Your dad can’t force you to listen to his lame music all of the time!

When all of my generation were listening to Elvis, , the Monkees and 4 Seasons, and Motown I was just getting into Southern Gospel quartets. My daughter went ‘yuck’ to my musical tastes and discovered Petra, Newsboys and Jars of Clay. Now I get “Pop, you will not believe what your grandson is listening to…” yep, Southern gospel quartets…Gee, I guess it skips a generation.

This, on what would have been George Harrison’s 75th birthday.

Well she was just seventeenYou know what I meanAnd the way she lookedWas way beyond compareSo how could I dance with another,Oh, when I saw her standing there

I grew up listening to Motown, The Beatles, Simon &Garfunkel, and musicals – my older sister played West Side Story all the time & I just took it from there. Now that I am old, I find myself listening to the music of my parents’ generation besides the music of my own generation.