{"id":30349,"date":"2022-09-21T19:56:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T00:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30349"},"modified":"2022-09-21T19:56:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T00:56:09","slug":"david-gilmour-sings-for-grownups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/21\/david-gilmour-sings-for-grownups\/","title":{"rendered":"David Gilmour Sings For Grownups"},"content":{"rendered":"

Severian posted this Nerd Fight today: songs for grownups<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Or my other nominee, Bob Seger\u2019s \u201cNight Moves.\u201d Yep, that\u2019s what it feels like, all right, to be a normal teenage boy in a culture that isn\u2019t quite yet terminal. It\u2019s also what it\u2019s like to be a normal adult looking back on that teenage boy. It\u2019s not goopy nostalgia; Bob knows those days are gone. It\u2019s not \u201cGosh, I wish I\u2019d done this and that differently;\u201d it\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m glad it ended the way it did, because I am a sadder yet wiser person for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, it\u2019s a song by an adult, for adults.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I mean, his first nominee is Dan Fogelberg\u2019s “Same Auld Lang Syne” (::spit::). Heaven and the blog archives know what I think of that song.<\/p>\n

Severian invites commenters to identify songs written for adults.<\/p>\n

Gentle reader, I’m sure you would remember were you not still young that I posted Music: Not For Grown-Ups Any More<\/a> in 2003<\/em>, when I was less of a grownup than I am now, that music of the modern day was\/is written for the young. We’ve covered the ground about why popular music tends to be geared to the young (I’m too lazy to find the links now–troll my Music<\/a> category and see if you can find the posts about how country music was the last genre to fall to the call of the young and why I hate “Same Auld Lang Syne”).<\/p>\n

One of his commenters posted about Roger Waters of Pink Floyd (as a co-worker in 1990 called them, “Three old men and a guitar”). However, that commenter missed the proper member of Pink Floyd for adults.<\/p>\n

Roger Waters’ solo work was always a bit of youthful naval gazing. The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking<\/em> resonates when you’re young and your relationships are unstable. Radio K.A.O.S<\/em> and Amused to Death<\/em> were political statements. Apparently, he has released music since then, but who cares? I mean, I grokked The Wall<\/em> because my parents divorced when I was young, but aside from touching that youthful wire, meh.<\/p>\n

David Gilmour, on the other hand….<\/p>\n

On his 1978 solo album David Gilmour<\/em>, his song “So Far Away” describes being close to but being far away from a lover:<\/p>\n