ordinary pop songs and why they're great.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

 
Now here's a blindingly obvious one, "Harvest for the World" by The Isley Brothers. That is to say I don't believe there's a soul out there who doesn't already think that this is a brilliant song. But like so much in "da modern world" it's become nigh on invisible through overexposure. Songs like this have been around all the Shite FM playlists so many times that they've been rendered null and void. We're desensitised and no longer marvel at that wonderful persistent acoustic riff nor feel moved by the lyrics that remain pertinent all these years after they were written.

Unlike those hippy hangover mid-70s days when this came to pass, I bet not one of us now believes for one minute that there will ever be any such harvest. Quick, let's go to Bluewater and spend money or we might just feel something!!!!