you give me a ladder now

i surely believe i'll climb

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Getting too old to keep up on the music scene, and while I'll fully admit a late period liking for French pop/electronic/whatever, I still find myself tracking down songs that get stuck in my head from God only knows when.  A solid bass line, good harmony, hell, throw a Hammond B3 in there and I'm sold.

I also get stuck on songs with great intros.  Pearl Jam is a good one for this kind of thing.  Beth Orton.  Versus.  Songs that make you want to hear them over and over, just because the opening is so great.  Used to feel this way about classic rock, but as I'm finding now, even early PJ is "classic rock".  Age is a bitch.

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I never cared for Joan Osborne.  The whole Lilith Fair idiocy, Sarah McLachlan, yeah, I listened to my fair share of music written/sung/performed/etc by the by-fairer-sex in the '90s.  I also had season tickets to the OSU hockey games.  I revisit both in the ways I can afford.  The latter, via internet, the former pretty much the same.

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some tell me you're slow and lazy
some tell me you're so inspired

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The opening 8-16 bars of "Ladder" still rocks me for some reason, and this song is 17 years old.  It's one thing if the lyrics or the music gets to you, completely different when they both always hit you like a 2 ton heavy something.  If anything it reminds me that no matter how old you get, some things always sound new every single time you listen to them.  Today and every day.

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I'm standin' here in your closet
Unbuttonin' all your clothes
I sleep in your bed tonight
But I never find you home

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If ever there was four lines that summed up my relationship life in only four lines, there it is.  And it  tends to reflect both our lives.