Comments on: To be a rock, and not to roll http://www.likelihoodofsuccess.com/2007/12/04/to-be-a-rock-and-not-to-roll/ Ron Coleman’s retired general topic blog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:32:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jack. http://www.likelihoodofsuccess.com/2007/12/04/to-be-a-rock-and-not-to-roll/comment-page-1/#comment-2464 Jack. Sat, 08 Dec 2007 06:02:20 +0000 http://likelihoodofsuccess.com/2007/12/04/to-be-a-rock-and-not-to-roll/#comment-2464 "Jack, what I find disappointing is the micro of that repetitiveness macro. In other words, the songs themselves are too damned repetitive. I guess when you’re at the head-bangin’ age, that’s well and good, but as an increasingly seasoned citizen who gets the point the first time it’s made, you know?…" A Different Sort of Dream When I was young I used to rock On every day I'd roll, Then older far by time and age The Stones went down the hole, And falling past my juvenile I heard a different sound, The motion of my passing past Ran ancient things aground, For music was all melody And noise to shake the sky, But when the earth pulled back on me Such dissonance awry, For now I march a manly pace And childhood's race is gone, Music claims some harmony And needs not make all song, A violin that weeps of death At pitch no voice may match, Will often catch my soul at rest And from myself detach, An Orchestra to contemplate An Opera House to home, A Symphony to wander long When I am deep alone, And ballad'd cycle, poems of tone Through resonance affair, A Chamber Piece that puzzles me Spells secrets in the air, The old ways from my younger days Are vapid hollow now, The music of my spent boyhood Seems barren, lost, and cowed, Composed in senesced maturity I cannot homewards tread, And lost in youth's obscurity I cannot make a'bed, I can occasion to the time When time meant naught to me, But I cannot live there anymore I am a ship at sea, There is no Rock by which I'm bound No roll to push me out, I do not fancy anymore That I am filled with doubt, Instead I hear a'music far Which whispers on the waves, Which sings like orbit of the stars And now my heart enslaves, So young men to your drums and shouts It's fine to make your screams, But now that time has gentled me I've different sort of dreams... “Jack, what I find disappointing is the micro of that repetitiveness macro. In other words, the songs themselves are too damned repetitive. I guess when you’re at the head-bangin’ age, that’s well and good, but as an increasingly seasoned citizen who gets the point the first time it’s made, you know?…”

A Different Sort of Dream

When I was young I used to rock
On every day I’d roll,
Then older far by time and age
The Stones went down the hole,

And falling past my juvenile
I heard a different sound,
The motion of my passing past
Ran ancient things aground,

For music was all melody
And noise to shake the sky,
But when the earth pulled back on me
Such dissonance awry,

For now I march a manly pace
And childhood’s race is gone,
Music claims some harmony
And needs not make all song,

A violin that weeps of death
At pitch no voice may match,
Will often catch my soul at rest
And from myself detach,

An Orchestra to contemplate
An Opera House to home,
A Symphony to wander long
When I am deep alone,

And ballad’d cycle, poems of tone
Through resonance affair,
A Chamber Piece that puzzles me
Spells secrets in the air,

The old ways from my younger days
Are vapid hollow now,
The music of my spent boyhood
Seems barren, lost, and cowed,

Composed in senesced maturity
I cannot homewards tread,
And lost in youth’s obscurity
I cannot make a’bed,

I can occasion to the time
When time meant naught to me,
But I cannot live there anymore
I am a ship at sea,

There is no Rock by which I’m bound
No roll to push me out,
I do not fancy anymore
That I am filled with doubt,

Instead I hear a’music far
Which whispers on the waves,
Which sings like orbit of the stars
And now my heart enslaves,

So young men to your drums and shouts
It’s fine to make your screams,
But now that time has gentled me
I’ve different sort of dreams…

]]> By: Bob Miller http://www.likelihoodofsuccess.com/2007/12/04/to-be-a-rock-and-not-to-roll/comment-page-1/#comment-2465 Bob Miller Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:58:00 +0000 http://likelihoodofsuccess.com/2007/12/04/to-be-a-rock-and-not-to-roll/#comment-2465 Katmandu by Bob Seger might be the antidote. Katmandu by Bob Seger might be the antidote.

]]> By: Bob Miller http://www.likelihoodofsuccess.com/2007/12/04/to-be-a-rock-and-not-to-roll/comment-page-1/#comment-2466 Bob Miller Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:53:19 +0000 http://likelihoodofsuccess.com/2007/12/04/to-be-a-rock-and-not-to-roll/#comment-2466 Now, as then, I wouldn't willingly listen to Led Zep if you paid me. Any resemblance of Plant to a vocalist was incidental. Their guitar work was a total perversion of the blues. Now, as then, I wouldn’t willingly listen to Led Zep if you paid me. Any resemblance of Plant to a vocalist was incidental. Their guitar work was a total perversion of the blues.

]]> By: Ron Coleman http://www.likelihoodofsuccess.com/2007/12/04/to-be-a-rock-and-not-to-roll/comment-page-1/#comment-2467 Ron Coleman Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:16:49 +0000 http://likelihoodofsuccess.com/2007/12/04/to-be-a-rock-and-not-to-roll/#comment-2467 Jack, what I find disappointing is the micro of that repetitiveness macro. In other words, the songs themselves are too damned repetitive. I guess when you're at the head-bangin' age, that's well and good, but as an increasingly seasoned citizen who gets the point the first time it's made, you know?... Jack, what I find disappointing is the micro of that repetitiveness macro. In other words, the songs themselves are too damned repetitive. I guess when you’re at the head-bangin’ age, that’s well and good, but as an increasingly seasoned citizen who gets the point the first time it’s made, you know?…

]]> By: Stout Republican http://www.likelihoodofsuccess.com/2007/12/04/to-be-a-rock-and-not-to-roll/comment-page-1/#comment-2470 Stout Republican Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:29:43 +0000 http://likelihoodofsuccess.com/2007/12/04/to-be-a-rock-and-not-to-roll/#comment-2470 Radiohead - OK Computer Album Timeless. Radiohead – OK Computer Album

Timeless.

]]> By: Jack. http://www.likelihoodofsuccess.com/2007/12/04/to-be-a-rock-and-not-to-roll/comment-page-1/#comment-2471 Jack. Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:18:27 +0000 http://likelihoodofsuccess.com/2007/12/04/to-be-a-rock-and-not-to-roll/#comment-2471 I think the real secret to really liking a lot of modern, popular music is to not listen to it so often. Modern music seems a whole lot better when you're not listening to it than when you are. But to be a little bit more serious, "when a thing is ingeniously novel it is often sweet by virtue of it's rarity, but when a thing is common it must also be brilliantly durable or it is rarely gratifying in it's virtue." I think the real secret to really liking a lot of modern, popular music is to not listen to it so often. Modern music seems a whole lot better when you’re not listening to it than when you are.

But to be a little bit more serious, “when a thing is ingeniously novel it is often sweet by virtue of it’s rarity, but when a thing is common it must also be brilliantly durable or it is rarely gratifying in it’s virtue.”

]]> By: Ara Rubyan http://www.likelihoodofsuccess.com/2007/12/04/to-be-a-rock-and-not-to-roll/comment-page-1/#comment-2472 Ara Rubyan Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:17:41 +0000 http://likelihoodofsuccess.com/2007/12/04/to-be-a-rock-and-not-to-roll/#comment-2472 <i>I can’t stand it any more.</i> I'm pretty much there with <i>Hey Jude.</i> I can’t stand it any more.

I’m pretty much there with Hey Jude.

]]> By: Jack. http://www.likelihoodofsuccess.com/2007/12/04/to-be-a-rock-and-not-to-roll/comment-page-1/#comment-2469 Jack. Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:30:43 +0000 http://likelihoodofsuccess.com/2007/12/04/to-be-a-rock-and-not-to-roll/#comment-2469 Hey, look fellas. We can email Satan now. Ain't the internet marvelous? Hey, look fellas.

We can email Satan now.
Ain’t the internet marvelous?

]]> By: Jack. http://www.likelihoodofsuccess.com/2007/12/04/to-be-a-rock-and-not-to-roll/comment-page-1/#comment-2468 Jack. Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:29:26 +0000 http://likelihoodofsuccess.com/2007/12/04/to-be-a-rock-and-not-to-roll/#comment-2468 Kashmir blows Stairway all to h@!!. Kashmir blows Stairway all to h@!!.

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