Talk About The Good Times

[MikeFromHolland]

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A very good song imo!

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[Mike in New Jersey]

I don't hate this track, but I don't particularly care for it either. I don't skip it when It comes on, but I don't seek it out. The Stax sessions, of all his 70's sessions would have benefitted the most, IMO, from combining the sessions to make one good/very good album.

BTW, did the most recent thread on this song get deleted?

[minkahed]

I think that it did. it turned into a "love in".

[Juan Luis]

All the moderator(s) had to do was eliminate a couple of trolls and that would have been that!

[MikeFromHolland]

All the moderator(s) had to do was eliminate a couple of trolls and that would have been that!

Indeed. Hence my modest tribute to your original topic, which was fantastic as always. And i've learned who to ignore completely in future.

Let's talk about the good times

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[Pete Dube]

What a shame about the other TATGT thread getting deleted in its entirety. There were plenty of worthwhile comments in that thread that should've been allowed to remain.

[Ciscoking]

Yep..just removing the troll posts would have been sufficient..

[lovin' EP]

I hope the "trolls" have at least been suspended and not allowed to derail another nice topic!

Elvisly,

Linda

[minkahed]

Well anyway, for what it's worth, it's a good track and a great album cut.

In a few replies I've read about Elvis' "manic" vocal and that is just preposterous. If Elvis had sang anything other than what he does on this track it would be considered devoid of anything of inspiring and/or creative.

[ICanHelp]

A great song, sung very well (and at just the right speed for a gospel-type number) by Elvis. He was in great voice in December 73 and then again in March 75. Thanks for reviving this thread.

[lovin' EP]

These lyrics are so appropriate for today. Reminds me so much of my childhood. Sadly, so many children will grow up without these kinds of memories. They will know nothing but violence and hate.

Elvisly,

Linda


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[Davelee]

All the moderator(s) had to do was eliminate a couple of trolls and that would have been that!

Who were the trolls and why?

[poormadpeter2]

All the moderator(s) had to do was eliminate a couple of trolls and that would have been that!

Who were the trolls and why?

You reported the last thread because it went off-topic and in a direction you didn't approve of. Do you really want that to happen again, or do you want to post on topic?

[LSP-4445]

I just played through the whole session of this song.
All 4 takes

[Davelee]

All the moderator(s) had to do was eliminate a couple of trolls and that would have been that!

Who were the trolls and why?

You reported the last thread because it went off-topic and in a direction you didn't approve of. Do you really want that to happen again, or do you want to post on topic?

Sure, staying on topic is the main issue...the fact that Juan and Mike have made the first off-topic comments in this thread by saying that the trolls should have been eliminated, which there was no trolls in the original thread anyway questions their intent on derailing yet another topic.

Thats it from me - i'm outta here!

[poormadpeter2]

These lyrics are so appropriate for today. Reminds me so much of my childhood. Sadly, so many children will grow up without these kinds of memories. They will know nothing but violence and hate.

Elvisly,

Linda


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Well, to be fair, youth is always viewed through those good old rose-coloured glasses. We view the world today as being full of fear and hate, which it is, but it was in the "good old days" too when people couldn't love and marry who they wanted (due to race or sexuality), when it was perfectly legal to discriminate people due to gender, race or sexuality, when lynchings were common, when nobody knew whether there would be a nuclear war or not, and so on. Plenty of hate and fear. Sadly, the good old days as we all remember them just never existed.

That was cheerful!

[lovin' EP]

These lyrics are so appropriate for today. Reminds me so much of my childhood. Sadly, so many children will grow up without these kinds of memories. They will know nothing but violence and hate.

Elvisly,

Linda


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Well, to be fair, youth is always viewed through those good old rose-coloured glasses. We view the world today as being full of fear and hate, which it is, but it was in the "good old days" too when people couldn't love and marry who they wanted (due to race or sexuality), when it was perfectly legal to discriminate people due to gender, race or sexuality, when lynchings were common, when nobody knew whether there would be a nuclear war or not, and so on. Plenty of hate and fear. Sadly, the good old days as we all remember them just never existed.

That was cheerful!

GOOD BYE. I'M TOTALLY FINISHED WITH THIS FORUM. YOU WON'T HEAR FROM ME AGAIN.

Linda

[poormadpeter2]

These lyrics are so appropriate for today. Reminds me so much of my childhood. Sadly, so many children will grow up without these kinds of memories. They will know nothing but violence and hate.

Elvisly,

Linda


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Well, to be fair, youth is always viewed through those good old rose-coloured glasses. We view the world today as being full of fear and hate, which it is, but it was in the "good old days" too when people couldn't love and marry who they wanted (due to race or sexuality), when it was perfectly legal to discriminate people due to gender, race or sexuality, when lynchings were common, when nobody knew whether there would be a nuclear war or not, and so on. Plenty of hate and fear. Sadly, the good old days as we all remember them just never existed.

That was cheerful!

GOOD BYE. I'M TOTALLY FINISHED WITH THIS FORUM. YOU WON'T HEAR FROM ME AGAIN.

Linda

Why? I wasn't having a go at anyone? Why take offence?

[Davelee]

These lyrics are so appropriate for today. Reminds me so much of my childhood. Sadly, so many children will grow up without these kinds of memories. They will know nothing but violence and hate.

Elvisly,

Linda


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Well, to be fair, youth is always viewed through those good old rose-coloured glasses. We view the world today as being full of fear and hate, which it is, but it was in the "good old days" too when people couldn't love and marry who they wanted (due to race or sexuality), when it was perfectly legal to discriminate people due to gender, race or sexuality, when lynchings were common, when nobody knew whether there would be a nuclear war or not, and so on. Plenty of hate and fear. Sadly, the good old days as we all remember them just never existed.

That was cheerful!

GOOD BYE. I'M TOTALLY FINISHED WITH THIS FORUM. YOU WON'T HEAR FROM ME AGAIN.

Linda

Take care, Linda.

I understand what you feel.

[MikeFromHolland]

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For me these three pics illustrate the safety which I personally felt in my days of innocence. The cord hanging out of the door at my grand-parents house. It was to get in, when they were out. No fear for burglars...







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[MikeFromHolland]

These lyrics are so appropriate for today. Reminds me so much of my childhood. Sadly, so many children will grow up without these kinds of memories. They will know nothing but violence and hate.

Elvisly,

Linda

Well, to be fair, youth is always viewed through those good old rose-coloured glasses. We view the world today as being full of fear and hate, which it is, but it was in the "good old days" too when people couldn't love and marry who they wanted (due to race or sexuality), when it was perfectly legal to discriminate people due to gender, race or sexuality, when lynchings were common, when nobody knew whether there would be a nuclear war or not, and so on. Plenty of hate and fear. Sadly, the good old days as we all remember them just never existed.

That was cheerful!

GOOD BYE. I'M TOTALLY FINISHED WITH THIS FORUM. YOU WON'T HEAR FROM ME AGAIN.

Linda

Why? I wasn't having a go at anyone? Why take offence?

Reads like you had a troubled youth and started to project your own thoughts and feelings...

Sadly, the good old days as we all remember them just never existed.

Respect for sharing this personal insight with us. It's an opinion.



However, I guess your "we" was a generalization which another "we" couldn't relate to. Especially when something personal was shared:

These lyrics are so appropriate for today. Reminds me so much of my childhood.

which deserves respect as well. It reads like a fact.

You telling those good old days never existed, reads like a direct attack. Not intentional. But it does.



Anyway, the song and topic title is Talk About The Good Times, not the Sad or Bad times

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[poormadpeter2]

These lyrics are so appropriate for today. Reminds me so much of my childhood. Sadly, so many children will grow up without these kinds of memories. They will know nothing but violence and hate.

Elvisly,

Linda

Well, to be fair, youth is always viewed through those good old rose-coloured glasses. We view the world today as being full of fear and hate, which it is, but it was in the "good old days" too when people couldn't love and marry who they wanted (due to race or sexuality), when it was perfectly legal to discriminate people due to gender, race or sexuality, when lynchings were common, when nobody knew whether there would be a nuclear war or not, and so on. Plenty of hate and fear. Sadly, the good old days as we all remember them just never existed.

That was cheerful!

GOOD BYE. I'M TOTALLY FINISHED WITH THIS FORUM. YOU WON'T HEAR FROM ME AGAIN.

Linda

Why? I wasn't having a go at anyone? Why take offence?

Reads like you had a troubled youth and started to project your own thoughts and feelings...

Sadly, the good old days as we all remember them just never existed.

Respect for sharing this personal insight with us.



However, I guess your "we" was a generalization which another "we" couldn't relate to. Especially when something personal was shared:

These lyrics are so appropriate for today. Reminds me so much of my childhood.

which deserves respect as well.


Anyway, the song and topic title is Talk About The Good Times, not the Sad or Bad times

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No, I think you're reading too much into a comment that was simply saying that the good old days as we all remember weren't actually that good when you start to look at them. I quite clearly homed in on the comment about youngsters today knowing "nothing but violence and hate" and made a clear case that this is what was going on thirty, forty, fifty years ago - and beyond. Violence and hate is going on in the world all the time, it's just that as kids we don't notice it. In thirty years time, ten year olds today are going to tell their kids how great life was in 2016 and how they remember everyone going mad over a new Pokemon game on their mobile phones, and so on. They will have the same happy reflection on their childhood that all other generations have had. They're not going to remember terrorist attacks in France as a part of growing up. It's no different for people growing up in the 1950s and 1960s who remember going fishing and riding their bikes and Saturday mornings at the cinema - and not the racisim, sexism and constant threat of America and Russia going to war. And that's what the song is about - the "good times" were the times when we were too innocent to know about the bad things going on in adult-land.

Either way, all things considered, the post, cynical though some might feel it to be, is no reason to leave a forum. There were no insults, no attacks, no sarcasm.

[MikeFromHolland]

These lyrics are so appropriate for today. Reminds me so much of my childhood. Sadly, so many children will grow up without these kinds of memories. They will know nothing but violence and hate.

Elvisly,

Linda

Well, to be fair, youth is always viewed through those good old rose-coloured glasses. We view the world today as being full of fear and hate, which it is, but it was in the "good old days" too when people couldn't love and marry who they wanted (due to race or sexuality), when it was perfectly legal to discriminate people due to gender, race or sexuality, when lynchings were common, when nobody knew whether there would be a nuclear war or not, and so on. Plenty of hate and fear. Sadly, the good old days as we all remember them just never existed.

That was cheerful!

GOOD BYE. I'M TOTALLY FINISHED WITH THIS FORUM. YOU WON'T HEAR FROM ME AGAIN.

Linda

Why? I wasn't having a go at anyone? Why take offence?

Reads like you had a troubled youth and started to project your own thoughts and feelings...

Sadly, the good old days as we all remember them just never existed.

Respect for sharing this personal insight with us.



However, I guess your "we" was a generalization which another "we" couldn't relate to. Especially when something personal was shared:

These lyrics are so appropriate for today. Reminds me so much of my childhood.

which deserves respect as well.


Anyway, the song and topic title is Talk About The Good Times, not the Sad or Bad times

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No, I think you're reading too much into a comment that was simply saying that the good old days as we all remember weren't actually that good when you start to look at them. .

I just gave my 10 cents as an answer to your question "why take offense?" for someone responded to your post with: "GOOD BYE. I'M TOTALLY FINISHED WITH THIS FORUM. YOU WON'T HEAR FROM ME AGAIN." It clearly was experienced as offensive.

Now you can get in the scientific or defensive mode (like you did, coming up with even more arguments why the other person was wrong) and don't learn. Or get in the productive mode and try to learn something out of this interesting experience.

That's all. It's all up to you if you want. I only shared an opinion.

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[poormadpeter2]

These lyrics are so appropriate for today. Reminds me so much of my childhood. Sadly, so many children will grow up without these kinds of memories. They will know nothing but violence and hate.

Elvisly,

Linda

Well, to be fair, youth is always viewed through those good old rose-coloured glasses. We view the world today as being full of fear and hate, which it is, but it was in the "good old days" too when people couldn't love and marry who they wanted (due to race or sexuality), when it was perfectly legal to discriminate people due to gender, race or sexuality, when lynchings were common, when nobody knew whether there would be a nuclear war or not, and so on. Plenty of hate and fear. Sadly, the good old days as we all remember them just never existed.

That was cheerful!

GOOD BYE. I'M TOTALLY FINISHED WITH THIS FORUM. YOU WON'T HEAR FROM ME AGAIN.

Linda

Why? I wasn't having a go at anyone? Why take offence?

Reads like you had a troubled youth and started to project your own thoughts and feelings...

Sadly, the good old days as we all remember them just never existed.

Respect for sharing this personal insight with us.



However, I guess your "we" was a generalization which another "we" couldn't relate to. Especially when something personal was shared:

These lyrics are so appropriate for today. Reminds me so much of my childhood.

which deserves respect as well.


Anyway, the song and topic title is Talk About The Good Times, not the Sad or Bad times

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No, I think you're reading too much into a comment that was simply saying that the good old days as we all remember weren't actually that good when you start to look at them. .

I just gave my 10 cents as an answer to your question "why take offense?" for someone responded to your post with: "GOOD BYE. I'M TOTALLY FINISHED WITH THIS FORUM. YOU WON'T HEAR FROM ME AGAIN."

Now you can get in the scientific or defensive mode (like you did) and don't learn. Or get in the productive mode and try to learn something out of this interesting experience.

That's all. It's all up to you if you want. I only shared an opinion.

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Mike, you're making out I did something wrong by responding politely to a post and putting forward a differing point of view - and even ending that post with a lighthearted comment. And "get in the productive mode and try to learn something out of this interesting experience" is simply patronising.

Threads on this song seem jinxed.

[MikeFromHolland]

Mike, you're making out I did something wrong by responding politely to a post and putting forward a differing point of view - and even ending that post with a lighthearted comment. And "get in the productive mode and try to learn something out of this interesting experience" is simply patronising.

I understand your intention and I understand what you meant. In answer to your question, it's about how it came across. No offense from me towards you, just trying to share some insights.

Even now it looks as if you're still in the defensive mode: pointing your finger towards others (me in this case) and suggesting you responded politely (in your point of view). The point is: it didn't come across as polite to someone else. That must be clear from the reaction you provoked. Thought you asked a genuine question when you asked "Why take offense?" I tried to explain how I saw it and the response I got from you started with a big "No," followed by all sorts of reasonings to clarify that "no". I call that defensive reasoning. A form of reasoning that prevents someone from learning. And if saying that comes across as patronizing, than there might be a bit of truth in it.

Again, no offense from me towards you....

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