One of the things that makes me think that I was born at the right time is the rock N roll music of the 1960s & 1970s and maybe a little from the 1980s but no further. It was music that you listened to and music that you sang to; music that you made love to and music that you got high to.
It was a combination of the music and the lyrics but mainly the lyrics is what drew us in... The lyrics perfectly reflected what we were experiencing and what we were feeling, especially with the Vietnam War and the military draft hanging over our heads.
Many young people today like the music of the 60s/70s for a variety of reasons while others hate it. Those who like it still do not understand how or why the lyrics spoke to us like the way they did and like the way we describe.
One of the things that I really remember is driving around the city of Alexandria, Virginia in my 1967 Plymouth Barracuda convertible with the top-down listening to In-A- Gadda-Da-Vida as loud as the volume would go.
Speed is associated with 60s/70s music because just about any Steppenwolf song and my accelerated immediately started moving towards the floor, seemingly by itself... or at least that's what I told the cops when they would stop me.
Today's music just doesn't have any of that...
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