500 Greatest Songs

 I'm not sure I know this one.  I have to admit, I never really saw the greatness of Springstreen.  I might have turned his songs up when they came on the radio, but that's about it.  I saw him as good, not great.  But I know he means a lot to a lot of folks, so maybe I haven't really given his stuff a chance. ---- It's a good song. Probably would have made a really cool 3 minute song.  I'm not really keen on the arrangement, there's a lot going on. I don't necessary mind that. I love the Allman Brothers Band and they have keyboard, two guitars and two drummers (later a percussionist, too).  I don't know why I find this overly busy and I don't hear that in the Allmans.  Anyway, it's good, but I would've cut that middle section and made this a shorter song. Like the ending.

 Heck yeah, I know this one. I got turned on to the Beatles when that stupid Sgt. Pepper movie came out in the late 1970s.  My friends Mom was a big Bee Gees fan and took us to see the movie. I didn't really like the move, even as a kid (I was maybe 11).  Soon after, my parents went to flea market and I'm looking through a bunch of used albums trying to find the soundtrack, because I did like the songs.  I couldn't find it, which wasn't surprising because it was new at the time. And thank goodness, because when I told my Mom I couldn't find it, she told to go look for Beatle records.  That's how naive I was, I didn't even realize they were covers.  I didn't find Sgt. Pepper, but I found the 1967-1970 double LP compilation.  It had Sgt Pepper, Little Help From My Friends, Lucy in the Sky, etc. on it, so they bought it for me. Quite possibly changed the direction of my life. I soon after found the counterpart to that album, 1962-1966, another double LP, ...

  Can't say I know this one, but I was a long time Dallas resident so I feel like I should.  True story, I took my then toddler son to the park one day and he sort of parallel played with an older kid named Seven.  When I was talking about it late to my wife, she said that Erykah Badu's child is named Seven.  Could have been.. Anyway, giving it a listen... It's got a nice wobble to it.  I like the groove.  I kind of expected it go someplace but it just kind of moved along. Some interesting variations in the arrangement but didn't build and have big drop. Refreshing, actually.  Like a lot of these songs, I like it, and not something I would have encountered otherwise. Top 500 of all time? Not so sure. But I dig it.