Long Live Retro.

January 6th, 2010 posted by admin
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Long Live Retro.

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I don’t know how much I like the term ‘Retro’ when I think about music… The trouble is that it tends to make you feel a little bit old when it means stuff that you grew up with!

Even so, there is no denying that Retro music is a treasure chest that is full of all manner of gems. There are some great bands around today but the music of years past will always be very special. Songs such as; ‘ A Whiter Shade of Pale’, ‘Imagine’, ‘Unchained Melody’ and ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ will never sound old. In fact, you can’t really envision anyone managing to write anything now that has the same timeless and immortal quality about it. Those kinds of songs were magical and everything at the time of their conception was in the right place. You cannot make yourself sit down and write something that is on par with ‘Bridge over Troubled Water’.

Be honest, when you think about the music of today can you really imagine it having the same amount of magic about it in another thirty years’ time? Coldplay, for example, are an excellent band; but even brilliant songs like, ‘Yellow’, ‘Clocks’, ‘The Scientist’ and ‘Fix You’ will not have the same class about them in years to come (no offence Chris Martin).

There will never be another Beatles; Elvis will not rise again and The Bee Gees cannot be replaced. When we refer to ‘Retro’ music we may as well be talking about ‘Magic’ music. The old Blues songs such as, ‘Smokestack Lightning’, ‘Mannish Boy’ and ‘I Put a Spell on You’ are snapshots of an Age that will never come about again.

You cannot recreate the Roman Empire, even if you want to.