Senior class dance my frosh year of high school, and the senior I've had a year-long secret crush on (he's the boyfriend of my best friend's older sister) asks me to slow dance to this song.

Some moments are forever...

Ahhhhhh...

The soundtrack to my life is playing once again.

Zep wrote:
Yeah, PG is usually good for a laugh.

But actually this whole thread has been pretty boneheaded...

On the one hand, if someone doesn't like a genre or style, well that's their choice/taste. It's personal, and there is no mathematics for taste.

On the other hand it's pretty clear that musical taste is not entirely genetic or physical. Ideas of what is pleasant or harmonious varies across cultures and eras. Carrying an inate predjudice against or for a particular genre can cost you some pleasure in life. Just like prudishness. Sometimes putting a little effort into getting a type or piece of music will pay off wonderful dividends.

Me I like people who go to a little effort to enjoy music.

Old_Pat wrote:
No, it just means you need to recalibrate your scale, and only give 10s to songs you feel are equal to this.

Class

Very nice.

My favorite song from the later Temptations. I can just see his imagination at work in this song, as so many of us have imagined the possibilities and impossibilities that other people offer us. And the final fadeout, "I never met her, but I can't forget her" is one of the best lines of lyrics anywhere.

Can't go higher than 10. Pity - this deserves more.

Aah, the Temptin' Temptations!

tammaye wrote:What aflanigan said. The same thing that happened to country music...MONEY.

One of the few Temptations songs I really enjoy. In fact, it's one of my many all time favorite songs.

This song has me at the hook...mmm... late night radio....the peaceful hour...what a great sound...so poignant and mellow....like the lost romance it evokes...

Papa was a rollin' stone...

stuartgibson wrote:

So, I guess you're annoyed if you have to stop to let a little old lady cross the street, too? Too much time out of your pre-determined schedule?

Reminds me of being an insecure young freshman at a high-school dance, just before the boy of my dreams came over to ask me to dance (yes, it really happened that way).

tammaye wrote:

I wonder if the mediocritization of "R&B" happened in a similar way to the way Country & Western was mainstreamed and made into a hollow imitation of what it used to be. That story, of course, has been told fairly definitively in shows like the BBC's "Lost Highway" retrospective on the history of Country music (see "The Nashville sound", Owen Bradley, Chet Atkins), but I don't know of a book, article, etc. that similarly explores how R&B lost what it once had. It can't be strictly an attempt to mainstream the music, to popularize it for imrpoved sales, because my impression is that during the "golden years" of Motown R&B, Motown was all about popularity and boosting record sales. Maybe it's the advent of focus group-driven decisions by recording execs.

4999thnewuser wrote:

You put ice cubes in your martinis?

But yeah. Nice.

Uh-oh. The last couple days made me realize that this amazing station will eventually get pulled down by the lowest commmon denominator..............you know, people who still think this is a song worth hearing more than once a decade.

Oh well, I'll enjoy it while it lasts.

tammaye wrote:

Do ya think this music could ever make it in today's world? I mean forget the nostalgic connotations...would it break out or get relegated to soft rock channels?

Gregorama wrote:

i hear ya... what i really don't get is modern R&B. how did otis redding and marvin gaye beget r. kelly and mariah carey? someone please splain it to me.

oh, and thanks for the timeless track, Bill!

MysticMilt wrote:

well put.

my favorite Temptations song...

See, this is one of the many reasons why I love RP: every now and then we get a kinda-out-of-left-field pick that really forces you reevaluate a song that's so well known it's iconic.

The beautiful thing is that listening to this song outside of its usual "All Oldies!" station or cheesy movie soundtrack really helps those of us who don't know it in any other format to take a second listen, and really appreciate it for what it is: one hell of a perfect classic Motown tune.

More Temptations please!!

Hey! This one got my attention. Nice follow up from Steve Winwood.

This is what I'm talking about.

Daveinbawlmer wrote:

Blasphemy, I know, but I do too....

OVERPLAYED!!!!!!! give us ball of confusion

physicsgenius wrote:

Bwa-ha-ha! Dude you crack me up sometimes!