Songs about getting old
Posted by: Slee on 06 April 2003
I'm collecting songs about growing old for a theme cd. Searching my own mainly rock/pop collection I've found the following songs.
When I'm Sixty Four - Beatles
Old Friends - Simon and Garfunkle
Days That Used To Be - Neil Young
Enjoy Yourself - The Specials
When I was Young - Eric Burdon
O.G. Original Gangster - Ice-T
Knocking on Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan
Touch of Grey - Grateful Dead
End of the Line - Traveling Wilbury's
Not very much of a list, I'm afraid, but I'm sure the collective memory of the forumites can help. What songs do you know that deal with themes of growing old, facing mortality and debility, and looking back on youth?
Any genre welcome.
Thanks
Lee
Posted on: 06 April 2003 by Jez Quigley
'We used to know' - Jethro Tull (Standup)
"All systems are perfectly designed to get the results they get."
Posted on: 06 April 2003 by Jez Quigley
Childhood's End - Pink Floyd (Obscured by Clouds)
"All systems are perfectly designed to get the results they get."
Posted on: 06 April 2003 by Jez Quigley
Old and in the way - Old and in the way (Garcia, Clemmons, Rowan, Grisman)
"All systems are perfectly designed to get the results they get."
Posted on: 07 April 2003 by seagull
"39" off Bloodflowers by The Cure
Posted on: 07 April 2003 by Stephen H
Might be too morbid, since it's about death but what about "The Watch" by Matthews Southern Comfort. It's based on a poem :-
The Watch
I wakened on my hot, hard bed;
Upon the pillow lay my head;
Beneath the pillow I could hear
My little watch was ticking clear.
I thought the throbbing of it went
Like my continual discontent;
I thought it said in every tick:
I am so sick, so sick, so sick:
O death, come quick, come quick, come quick,
Come quick, come quick, come quick, come quick...
Frances Macdonald Cornford
Don't you just love Monday mornings?
Steve.
Posted on: 07 April 2003 by the other nickc
Bob Dylan - 'Not Dark Yet'
(Brilliant!)
Posted on: 07 April 2003 by Bhoyo
Hey Nineteen - Steely Dan
Posted on: 07 April 2003 by greeny
Old - Dexy's midnight runners
Old Man(?) Neil Young
39 - Queen
Too much too young - The Specials.
Posted on: 07 April 2003 by Cheese
Old and Wise - Alan Parsons
The Last DJ - Tom Petty
Cheese
Posted on: 07 April 2003 by Keith Mattox
"Old Man" - how could we forget that one....
Cheers
Keith.
Posted on: 07 April 2003 by Jez Quigley
and 'old man' Love
"All systems are perfectly designed to get the results they get."
Posted on: 07 April 2003 by Jonathan Gorse
'Landslide' by Stevie Nicks from Fleetwood Mac 'Fleetwood Mac' - the album before Rumours.
A completely superb song.
Jonathan
Posted on: 07 April 2003 by jayd
"Minutes to Memories" - John Cougar Mellencamp, Scarecrow
"Check It Out" - JCM, Lonesome Jubilee
Posted on: 07 April 2003 by Ron Toolsie
Father and Son- Cat Stevens
Cats in the Cradle- Harry Chapin
Time-Pink Floyd
Grandfather-Rebecca Pidgeon
Ron
Dum spiro audio
Dum audio vivo
Posted on: 07 April 2003 by Peter Litwack
Slow Movin' Outlaw
From Waylon Jennings' "This Time"
"The whiskey that once settled the dust and tasted so fine
Now tastes of pain
And the memories it once blotted out
Come back stronger, more clearly with each drink you take
The women that warmed you, and once looked so pretty
Now look haggard and old
Where has the slow-movin', once quick-draw outlaw got to go?"
Posted on: 07 April 2003 by Jim Ashton
The Weaver's Answer - Family (on Family Entertainment)
Posted on: 08 April 2003 by domfjbrown
Old man on the back porch - Presidents of the USA
Love rule btw
When the music's over turn out the lights
Posted on: 08 April 2003 by greeny
quote:
Originally posted by Keith Mattox:
"Old Man" - how could we forget that one....
Cheers
Keith.
Come on Keith, Keep up, I mentioned that just 2 posts above yours.
Posted on: 08 April 2003 by greeny
quote:
Originally posted by Keith Mattox:
"Old Man" - how could we forget that one....
Cheers
Keith.
Come on Keith, Keep up, I mentioned that just 2 posts above yours.
Posted on: 08 April 2003 by J.N.
'Responsibility'
by Steve Forbert on 'The American In Me'
Wonderful lyrics and so true.
Posted on: 08 April 2003 by Slee
Wow! Cool.
Thanks for all the good music I now simply must listen to, and perhaps buy.
-Lee
Posted on: 09 April 2003 by Olly
A few more that spring to mind
Old Folks Boogie - Little Feat
When I grow up (I want to be an Old Woman) - Michelle Shocked
Nick of Time - Bonnie Raitt
Moments of pleasure - Kate Bush
'Til you can't tuck it in - The Beautiful South
Old - Paul Simon
Back in Time - Graham Parker
Posted on: 09 April 2003 by robw
The Durutti Column - Spent Time from 'Another Settings' LP (Factory Records).
Posted on: 09 April 2003 by Tim Jones
Mr Slee -
Not that I'm a pedant or anything but wasn't "Enjoy Yourself" written by the mighty Prince Buster and just covered by the Specials?
Tim
Posted on: 10 April 2003 by Neville
Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die - Jethro Tull
