XPost: talk.politics.misc, soc.culture

Odd subject, but worth considering.

No, sorry, no 'lost romance' crap - a dime a
dozen.

I'm talking "pith", "existential", "core
of the human condition".

#1 : "The Sounds of Silence" (Simon & Garfunkel 1966)

This is maybe the earliest pithy note of
the "malaise" setting in in Western Civ.
Yea, a lot of little interests have tried
to co-op it to their needs, but ...

STILL holds up quite nicely - maybe more
now than in '66.

#2 : "Everybody Knows" (Leonard Cohen 1998)

Was effectively covered for one of those
hero movies ... Cohen has a "gravel voice".

As the title implies, "everybody knows" how
horribly rigged The System is and will be -
but carry on regardless ... somewhere between
despair and denial. Likely this song would
have been well-understood since the dawn
of civilization (well, once translated
into Sumerian).

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