It Was A Very Good Year
| It Was A Very Good Year | |
| Created by: | RetroJoe |
| Tracks: | 15 |
| Length: | 00:55:21 |
| Keywords |
1. age 2. years 3. time |
| Created on | 10/18/08 4:54pm |
| Level | 2 |
| Points | 1356 |
| Total visitors | 16 |
| Unique visitors | 8 |
description:
Since I'm starting to feel my age these days, like Sinatra sings towards the end of the song used for this mixes title: "I'm in the Autumn of the year," I decided it would be good to review the passing of the years in a mix. This compilation aims at using songs that include a persons age in it, which it does in all respects except for track 3. That track fills a ten year gap between tracks 2 & 4. The picture used is a painting entitled "1982 was a very good year".
tracklist
| 1 | Jan and Dean : Baby Talk |
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This song exudes childlike exuberance (1959 #10).
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Track 1 from Surf City
Length: 00:02:25 Year: 1963 |
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This song exudes childlike exuberance (1959 #10). SHOW LESS
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| 2 | Johnny Rivers : Memphis |
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This is Rivers' first and second best performing song (1964 #2). Marie's age is a mystery till near the ending of the song.
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Track 2 from Greatest HIts
Length: 00:02:37 Year: 1998 |
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This is Rivers' first and second best performing song (1964 #2). Marie's age is a mystery till near the ending of the song. SHOW LESS
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| 3 | Led Zeppelin : Ten Years Gone |
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No specific age given, but I've picked this ode to the passage of time as an interlude between two songs that have ten years between them.
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Track 3 from Physical Graffiti (disc 2)
Length: 00:06:33 Year: 1975 |
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No specific age given, but I've picked this ode to the passage of time as an interlude between two songs that have ten years between them. SHOW LESS
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| 4 | Hayseed Dixie : Christine Sixteen |
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This is a hillbilly cover of a Kiss song that reached #25 on the pop charts in 1977.
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Track 4 from Kiss My Grass: A Hillbilly Tribute to Kiss
Length: 00:03:10 Year: 2003 |
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This is a hillbilly cover of a Kiss song that reached #25 on the pop charts in 1977. SHOW LESS
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| 5 | The Beatles : I Saw Her Standing There |
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This song succeeds in expressing the wild energy a girl of seventeen can inspire (more innocently than the song preceding it) (1964 #14).
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Track 5 from Please Please Me
Length: 00:02:58 |
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This song succeeds in expressing the wild energy a girl of seventeen can inspire (more innocently than the song preceding it) (1964 #14). SHOW LESS
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| 6 | Alice Cooper : Eighteen |
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Eighteen is a banner year in that it is a break away point where many restrictions of the past are ending and a more free existence is possible. One thing that was true then but not now was that you could legally drink alcohol at eighteen when this song came out. (1971 #21).
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Track 6 from Freedom Rock
Length: 00:03:00 Year: 1987 |
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Eighteen is a banner year in that it is a break away point where many restrictions of the past are ending and a more free existence is possible. One thing that was true then but not now was that you could legally drink alcohol at eighteen when this song came out. (1971 #21). SHOW LESS
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| 7 | Joe Jackson : NIneteen Forever |
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Of course Joe Jackson was 33 years old when he performed this, but he still comes close to expressing the youthful resistance to aging that was often a part of being a late teen.
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Track 7 from Blaze Of Glory
Length: 00:05:44 Year: 1989 |
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Of course Joe Jackson was 33 years old when he performed this, but he still comes close to expressing the youthful resistance to aging that was often a part of being a late teen. SHOW LESS
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| 8 | Neil Young : Sugar Mountain |
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I'm not a big fan of Neil Young, but there are a few numbers by him I like (such as this one).
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Track 8 from Decade
Length: 00:05:43 Year: 1976 |
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I'm not a big fan of Neil Young, but there are a few numbers by him I like (such as this one). SHOW LESS
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| 9 | Eagles : Twenty-One |
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I was bold when I was 21 and this song exemplifies that as well (1973).
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Track 9 from Desperado
Length: 00:02:10 Year: 1973 |
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I was bold when I was 21 and this song exemplifies that as well (1973). SHOW LESS
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| 10 | Jamie Cullum : Twentysomething |
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In my search for age themed songs, I came across this one. This jazzy, well performed song, is of recent vintage but has a retro feel to it (I like).
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Track 10 from Twentysomething
Length: 00:03:40 Year: 2004 |
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In my search for age themed songs, I came across this one. This jazzy, well performed song, is of recent vintage but has a retro feel to it (I like). SHOW LESS
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| 11 | tim mcgraw : My Next Thirty Years |
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I'm not a big fan of country but this one is well done and it's theme fits like a glove.
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Track 11 from Place In The Sun
Length: 00:03:37 Year: 1999 |
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I'm not a big fan of country but this one is well done and it's theme fits like a glove. SHOW LESS
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| 12 | Jerry Lee Lewis : Thirty-Nine And Holding |
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Again, I'm not a whole lot of country, but I love Jerry Lee's take on it.
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Track 12 from Killer Country
Length: 00:02:56 Year: 1981 |
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Again, I'm not a whole lot of country, but I love Jerry Lee's take on it. SHOW LESS
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| 13 | Jimmy Buffett : A Pirate Looks At Forty |
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"I'm an over Forty victim of fate". This song came out when I was 29, but I didn't hear it till I was 49, when it was more appropriate.
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Track 13 from A-1-A
Length: 00:03:55 Year: 1988 |
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"I'm an over Forty victim of fate". This song came out when I was 29, but I didn't hear it till I was 49, when it was more appropriate. SHOW LESS
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| 14 | Bill Morrissey : Fifty |
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Not a big name artist, but a good song. Another accidental discovery in my quest for songs to fit this theme (recorded sometime during the 1985-2003 period).
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Track 14 from The Essential Collection
Length: 00:02:26 Year: 2004 |
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Not a big name artist, but a good song. Another accidental discovery in my quest for songs to fit this theme (recorded sometime during the 1985-2003 period). SHOW LESS
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| 15 | Frank Sinatra : It Was A Very Good Year |
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A poetic look at special times in a man's voyage through life as sung by a great musical artist (1966 #28).
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Track 15 from The Reprise Collection
Length: 00:04:27 |
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A poetic look at special times in a man's voyage through life as sung by a great musical artist (1966 #28). SHOW LESS
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The Beta Badge II
Interesting hearing the Beatles version in stereo, and Frank's ...it was a very good year.
10/23/08 5:11pm
The MLK Badge
Interesting. When I saw the mix title I thought "isn't it a little early to the year in review already", but this is something else. That Alice Cooper track bring back a lot of memories. It was an anthem for me and my friends. Nice to end with Sinatra, too.
10/18/08 5:41pm
