He’s no longer young - “Life began, then was done” – and you wonder, shouldn't he be a bit more risk averse? What if he's wrong and ends up looking silly? Well, this is the result of the choice he made. I also think that one of the key aspects of this song – surely a masterpiece – is Stevie actually committing to innocence and choosing it above circumspection or scepticism. Naive optimism wins the day, said ParaMhor. I believe that was an unignorable sign that I had to pick it – am I naive?Īnd so to probably the centrepiece of the playlist, Stevie Wonder – I Believe. The Chess Story, Volume 3 From R&B to Soul, first track. In Jan Bradley’s Mama Didn't Lie, her Mama suggests it might be a good idea to hang on to that innocence for as long as possible: '"Girl, stay in your class / You got a whole lot of growin' and a'learnin' to do / Girl don't change so fast.” This was on the deck at home an hour or so before SweetHomeAlabama actually nommed it. A song about the sister he wished he'd had growing up is a really lovely idea. And the verdict was exactly as Magicman says … “lacking aggression, cynicism, bravado or ego and trading in sensitivity, philosophy and startlingly revealing flows”. Loyle Carner - Florence was brand new to me this week, so I checked out Loyle with my teenagers. A wonderfully evocative song, of summers long since past, “When you run for love not because you oughta / When you trust your friends with no reason notta”. The song’s built around a deliciously cinematic little scene in which “Your father used to drop you off / You'd step out of a red Cortina / You looked so pretty on those winter mornings”.īut it turns out summer is the season most often associated with innocence Jonathan Richman – That Summer Feeling.
Seems almost like the next song was written specifically about you,, falling from afar, but long and hard, for when you were at school back in. Some terrific stories this week from readers AltraEgo, nosuchzone and Uncleben amongst many others – and often featuring innocent, or not, days at school. This was A-listed as soon as I saw it The Tams – Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy The way that the late Charles Pope phrases “be happy” is just about perfect. See, straight off the bat it’s quite tough to avoid being tongue-in-cheek with this one. “Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.” Well it is, according to Eartha Kitt. No, no I’m just lowering the needle now, it’s just fantastic, wait, I’ll turn up the volume, listen.
No, hang on, I’m just stretching the phone wire across to the music centre. Yeh yeh, but I’ve got to finish this Latin translation.
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