I have many CD’s. If I had to listen to them all, one after the other, it’d probably take me months to listen to any of them twice. I can see why some old people get stuck in their musical ways – they just have so much of their own familiar music to listen to there’s no space for anything else to enter their consciousness.<\/p>\n
So, in good oldie fashion I hauled out a CD I loved as a teenager (before we had CD’s of course). Depeche Mode’s 101<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’d only half-listened to it since I got it on CD, but now, stuck in traffic, I listened<\/em> to it again for the first time since childhood. And was blown away. The lyrics seemed trite, though I still knew many of them by-heart (interesting saying that, by heart, not by head). But the live energy of the album is fantastic, 65 000 people screaming hysterically for a night of Black Celebration.<\/p>\n I remember buying their album Singles 81-85<\/em>. I think it was the first album I ever bought, and I only bought it because a friend recommended the group. I’d never heard them before. Luckily I loved it and was hooked. Listening to them now brought on a strange nostalgia, enhanced by my first trip back Capri-side since I moved to Oranjezicht.<\/p>\n It’s been a long time since any new music has matched the emotional impact albums such as 101 had on me when I first heard it. Perhaps Nick Cave’s Murder Ballads<\/a> was the most recent. I hope it will happen again, or else the inflexibility of old age has really caught up with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have many CD’s. If I had to listen to them all, one after the other, it’d probably take me months to listen to any of them twice. I can see why some old people get stuck in their musical ways – they just have so much of their own familiar music to listen to… Continue reading Music, aging and 101 reasons for a Black Celebration<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-personal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}