Forum / Dennis Potter on Pop Music

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  Chris Okum

  Jun 27, 04:27am

  "When people say, 'Oh, listen, they're playing our song,'" Potter said, "they don't mean, 'Our song, this little cheap, tinkling, syncopated piece of rubbish is what we felt when we met.' What they're saying is, 'That song reminds me of the tremendous feeling we had when we met.' Some of the songs I use are great anyway, but the cheaper songs are still in the direct line of descent from David's Psalms. They're saying, 'Listen, the world isn't quite like this, the world is better than this, there is love in it,' 'There's you and me in it,' or 'The sun is shining in it.' So-called dumb people, simple people, uneducated people, have as authentic and profound depth of feeling as the most educated on earth. Anyone who says different is a fascist."

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  Ann Bogle

  Jun 27, 08:44am

  Psalm 39

  Your previous post caused me to listen to the Doors tonight. Before that Neil Young. And now the Grateful Dead. Why do I know almost every word to most of the songs in my cassette tape drawers and CD cases when I sing along and not to know without consulting them the exact lines in my own poems?

  There is a reason. Maybe the Creativity Brain Researcher who studied writers at U of Iowa creative writing program knows.

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  Sam Rasnake

  Jun 27, 12:36pm

  http://youtu.be/WtoSnNMW1p8

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  Darryl Price

  Jun 27, 12:58pm

  We are music.

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  Carol Reid

  Jun 27, 03:46pm

  My nostalgic fav youtube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JskztPPSJwY

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  Carol Reid

  Jun 28, 01:41am

  http://www.collectorsproof.com/uploads/1fd7ae0dea7dafd0b2e9dd2e93cb9e453929ffa47f2c6bd232f4b60a.jpeg

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  Sally Houtman

  Jun 29, 01:18am

  I'm almost embarrassed to admit this, but it's just too funny not to share...

  Carol, I clicked on your first link above and started listening, thinking...that's the STRANGEST version of L.A. Woman I have EVER heard.

  Then realized it was the CAR AD that came before the video.

  Sheesh.

  Sux to be me.

  :)

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  Sally Houtman

  Jun 29, 01:28am

  This was my first 'Our Song". First true love at about the age of 19:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATQ5ays9t1I

  "When you look into my eyes
  And you see the crazy gypsy in my soul
  It always comes as a surprise
  When I feel my withered roots begin to grow
  Well I never had a place that I could call my very own
  That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home"

  Truer words were never spoken.

  *sniff*

  *sniff*

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