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If you can find some post it here. I'll start with this:

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(08-09-2015 06:37 PM)offthereservation Wrote:  If you can find some post it here. I'll start with this:

You can count on Red Pill wisdom in old country music, and blues.

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Agreed the OLD part

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Wow -- it's cool to see someone post Tom T. Hall. He was before my time, but I discovered him through a late night AM radio station I could pick up years ago that came out of Kentucky.

Even though I'm not country-oriented, I count myself as a huge Tom T. fan. His songs are so well-written and sung they fall into that category of music that transcends its genre.

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My contribution comes courtesy of the '60s group the Beau Brummels. If you've never heard of them, they were a bit like R.E.M. sound-wise.

This song, "It Won't Get Better," is from their 1967 album "Triangle" and has a point-of-view that I think is unique in pop (although it's probably more common in country). It's a cautionary tale from an older guy telling younger dudes that girl-wise, things really don't improve...so you'd better enjoy it now.

I just wish I'd heard this at 19.

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(08-10-2015 10:38 AM)Days of Broken Arrows Wrote:  Wow -- it's cool to see someone post Tom T. Hall. He was before my time, but I discovered him through a late night AM radio station I could pick up years ago that came out of Kentucky.

Even though I'm not country-oriented, I count myself as a huge Tom T. fan. His songs are so well-written and sung they fall into that category of music that transcends its genre.

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My contribution comes courtesy of the '60s group the Beau Brummels. If you've never heard of them, they were a bit like R.E.M. sound-wise.

This song, "It Won't Get Better," is from their 1967 album "Triangle" and has a point-of-view that I think is unique in pop (although it's probably more common in country). It's a cautionary tale from an older guy telling younger dudes that girl-wise, things really don't improve...so you'd better enjoy it now.

I just wish I'd heard this at 19.

cool. never heard that before

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Both of those songs are really cool and I had never heard of either before. Thanks.

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(08-10-2015 03:17 PM)Troll King Wrote:  Both of those songs are really cool and I had never heard of either before. Thanks.

Sounds like you could write a song from that too

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"when a girl could still cook and still would"

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Waylon Jennings' The Hunger.





They may not have used phrases like "cock carousel", "hypergamy" and "The Wall" back then, but listen to the lyrics and you'll hear the very same ideas. Now we just have a new vocabulary to express what's always been true.

Here's the lyrics:

Quote:They said in her younger days, her beauty was enough to drive men wild
But the hunger in her body then, was not the hunger of some lonely child.

Like a butterfly in springtime, searching every field for loving's sweetest rose
The embrace of many strangers, still could not release her from the hold.

In the backstreets and the bedrooms, all she's found is disappointments bitterly
While the love that she's too often found, was enough to satisfy her needs.

She's older than the years she holds, and aging fast with each day passing by
On a downhill run to nowhere, 'cause the hunger never can be satisfied.

The reflection in her mirror's not the image she remembers in her mind
Her beauty has been eaten by the hunger, and the acid winds of time.

She has danced the tune her demons played, and payed the piper dearly for his song
Empty now of all her pride but still inside, her hunger's just as strong.

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This one's easy. Louis Jordan in 1946. Some of the details back then were different, the main message not so much:

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(08-28-2015 12:43 PM)debeguiled Wrote:  This one's easy. Louis Jordan in 1946. Some of the details back then were different, the main message not so much:

nice
had never heard that before

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I like the Louis Jordan video.

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(08-10-2015 07:31 AM)vinman Wrote:  You can count on Red Pill wisdom in old country music, and blues.

True.

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Joe Williams on the player lifestyle: