To a great extent, the youtubes run here are what appear in sidebars and recommendeds … kudos to YT and ggl for that much … they do well.

You’ve gathered by now that I became fixated on American Pie far more recently than at the actual time.

One reason it hit home with me, far more than just nostalgic looks at tunes past, is the young person reactions and that in turn is divided into “white” reactions where they tend to analyse lyrics and meanings, and “black” reactions where it either has the groove or does not … if it does, you can see them “groovin'”, generations apart.

That’s nice, to I must say. Now … the “white” reactors are not that easy to choose as they widely range from self-absorbed to genuinely wanting to understand how things were. Into this category we could put “Amelia”, who comes up later with a great snalysis of our public state of affairs.

I’m well aware that this “music” is not everyone’s cuppa cha amongst our readers .. Lord Somber’s comment yesterday was on point … but it is significant music, it did hold a place at particular points of post-war history and to see young people seriously analysing it is … well, it’s nice. Cut them some slack … they’re just past “kidship” really.

Now these two below … they’ve already looked at American Pie and I did not at first like the girl … seemed an arrogant little miss, plus the guy is a bit thick, as guys are … however, over time, they’ve become two of the best and they’re learning … that’s the be all and end all … to learn until our dying day … to forever be the student.

Please hear them through because they do provide an interesting analysis of what, to me, was just a postulating song at the time. I clearly remembering being in the playground, someone had a transistor radio on … I thought it was “ok”, none of us liked the stuttering thing, we knew them it was trying to make us rebellious but we were way too young for that … we just wanted to have fun and do interesting things.

Just as I wish to now … maybe you do too. Fade away and die, man? Gotta be kidding … roll man, roll! Again, please listen to these two right through.