Songs to bring a lump to your throat
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 10:32 am
Bit of a Bank Holiday burst of nostalgia.
I have to be honest and say I have always enjoyed a well written and sung ballad, and a few do bring a lump to my throat.
I am currently listening to some old Beach Boys classics, and Brian Wilson could write some great ballads, and with those gorgeous harmonies.
Songs like Dont Worry Baby, In My Room, Surfer Girl, Girls on the Beach, The Warmth of the Sun, Please let me wonder, God only knows, You still believe in me, Caroline No and so on.
What makes it worse was the fact that these songs from the 1960s were sung with such innocense by the group, before the rows, the drugs, the break ups, Brian going off his head, and then Dennis and Carl dying.
Maybe the younger ones on this forum cannot undersand, but when you are in your forties and fifties and you listen to Coldplay or Artic Monkeys or Oasis or whatever, remembering your youth, and the knowledge that half the people in the gorup are now dead, it does bring a lump to your throat.
Nostalgia eh !
I have to be honest and say I have always enjoyed a well written and sung ballad, and a few do bring a lump to my throat.
I am currently listening to some old Beach Boys classics, and Brian Wilson could write some great ballads, and with those gorgeous harmonies.
Songs like Dont Worry Baby, In My Room, Surfer Girl, Girls on the Beach, The Warmth of the Sun, Please let me wonder, God only knows, You still believe in me, Caroline No and so on.
What makes it worse was the fact that these songs from the 1960s were sung with such innocense by the group, before the rows, the drugs, the break ups, Brian going off his head, and then Dennis and Carl dying.
Maybe the younger ones on this forum cannot undersand, but when you are in your forties and fifties and you listen to Coldplay or Artic Monkeys or Oasis or whatever, remembering your youth, and the knowledge that half the people in the gorup are now dead, it does bring a lump to your throat.
Nostalgia eh !