Sixties Invasion

I figure I must be on a ’60s music kick with the addition of Jully Black’s “Seven Day Fool,” (video over in the VodPod at left side-bar.) I bought and downloaded this song on iTunes - it’s from her album, “Revival.”

Black is up there with Duffy for the ’60s sound I seem to like more and more. “Seven Day Fool” played on the iPod in my car last night and I was about to forward to the next song, when Steph stopped me to say it was a good one (I’d had on Eddie Rabbitt’s “Room at the top of the stairs” before it… ’nuff said!) so we listened to Jully sing her new number.

Steph and I don’t always agree on music - she likes the pop, rap, and lyrical music, the latter of which I refer to as the all-too-common, assembly-line, dying-duck vibrato, which seems to be the in-thing with the young crowd now. If you can warble, you’ll probably have a hit, but personally, I can’t stand it.

Many times we argue over who gets to listen to what - Steph’s music, or my preferred CKTB talk-radio in the afternoon, now and then we reach a truce and play Steph’s music, but ONLY if they’re also songs I like. Fair enough, for the most part, as she knows which ones I can and can’t tolerate.

Oddly, one rap-pish song I really like and play when I’m alone in the car is Eminem’s “With or Without You” featuring the band, U2. Once past the initial rap lyrics at the beginning, the music takes on a more pronounced and updated U2 flavour. The other one I enjoy is Timbaland’s “Apologize,” also over in the side-bar.

If I could only get Stephanie to listen to my ’70s and ’80s music, because as Mary Hopkins sang back in ‘69, those were the days, my friend…