Victory Soap v. 2.0

Apropos of this topic, and the music-as-torture thread, on Friday I was eating lunch with co-workers in a local bar and the radio was tuned to an all-70's station. That was bad enough, but you know what's coming next -- they played that Terry Jacks song -- I can't bring myself to name it, you know the one -- I had to excuse myself for several minutes.

Seger did a couple tunes I really liked, but they were 'b' sides at best, forgotten filler for a couple of his albums. A very long time ago...so I don't remember the title, the album, the subject of said song...not that being a long time ago is a prerequisite for me forgetting such things!

I have very little musical training (piano lessons for 5 years, chorus in school, choir at Sunday School). I have even less musical talent. My brain just ain't wired like most, so what others hear as music, I tend to hear as irritating noise. I say this so you know I'm not claiming expertise or education when it comes to critiquing musical selections...& that I really understand music as an instrument of torture, which was a topic earlier.

Not that it matters, but I like this design, I can read what it says without squinting. Thanks!

... that Terry Jacks song..."

"We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the--" STAB STAB STAB STAB STAB STAB STABBITY STAB STAB STABBY STAB.

God only knows why I remember this, but at the last Bob Seger concert I attended, probably 20 years ago, he said he wrote Turn the Page because he needed a slow song to sing in the middle of his concerts. . . he needed to rest from the raucous songs.

Interviewed in the current Goldmine, Seger says he's surprised: "I never thought we'd have to play it over and over and over. I thought 'Turn the Page' was too down of a subject matter and that no one is gonna want to hear it."