Lazy Weekend Music: Counting Our Blessings
Posted on: November 21, 2014
This begins the weekend before Thanksgiving. Most of us will have lots to do next week, so I suggest that we spend this time thinking about the good things in life. Heaven knows, there hasn’t been a lot of good news lately. The latest election results were far from stellar, and they culminated one of the most vicious (Ebola, Ebola), contentious (ISIS, ISIS), and downright nasty (Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi) campaigns that I have ever witnessed. Enough, already.
Let’s have some music that lets us breathe easily, and makes us feel as warm and comfortable as possible. Try to select songs that remind us of good times, good friends, and good days. I couldn’t care less about the era, the genre, the artists(s), or whether the tune hit the top forty or not. Let’s just go with the flow in this absolutely open thread.
(1) Cool Change – Little River Band
(2) Southern Cross – Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
(3) The Way You Look Tonight – The Lettermen
(4) Clouds – Joni Mitchell
(5) God Only Knows – The Beach Boys
(6) The Sea – Rod McKuen
35 Responses to "Lazy Weekend Music: Counting Our Blessings"
November 22, 2014 at 3:46 am
I liked what the person said putting up this song:
Neil Young’s Heart of Gold. no intro crap, no added stuff, just and only the song.
November 22, 2014 at 3:23 pm
A quick football break. Not my usual, but this needs to be posted at least once:
November 22, 2014 at 4:42 pm
Lovely collection of songs. Fredster, I was just thinking about Heart of Gold for some reason yesterday. Hows the football outlook?
November 22, 2014 at 7:08 pm
LSU has a bye week, Georgia won, as did Fuzzy’s team. We are waiting on the USC/UCLA game.
November 22, 2014 at 10:43 pm
Ugh. USC is geting their butts kicked by UCLA. I fell asleep on the couch for most of the game! This has been a stressful week all around. I like the theme of the post, count our blessings. A good reminder.
November 22, 2014 at 10:44 pm
Chat, your Dawgs are doing great this year. Where are they in the standiings?
November 22, 2014 at 10:47 pm
We’re 9th in the AP, 10th in the Coach’s and whatever the new poll is.
November 23, 2014 at 1:05 am
Looks like Missouri isn’t going to make it easy for y’all Chat.
November 23, 2014 at 4:08 am
“Back in the day” (and I hate that phrase) in my more adventuresome period, this group would perform at “Tea Dances” at a bar and club on the lower part of Bourbon Street. The group is called The New Leviathan Oriental Fox-trot Orchestra (phew!) and it’s a revival ragtime band I guess. No one could dance to this stuff but it was campy fun. They were very popular in nola for a long time.
November 23, 2014 at 6:18 am
Took a bit to find “the right” organ version of Bach’s “Jesu Joy of…”. And I love to sit back with the headphones on, close my eyes and let the sweet music just flow over me.
November 23, 2014 at 10:33 am
@19: Nope, they’re not. Therefore, I have a week to practice this:
November 23, 2014 at 2:57 pm
I remember buying this on 8-track tape when I was in elementary school. Great album. Great song.
November 23, 2014 at 3:23 pm
@24: I was cutting-edge, Fredster. Running with scissors. Get outta my way.
From the same time period:
November 23, 2014 at 3:36 pm
Another song from the same era.
I once spent a winter in the Berkshires. Never again.
November 23, 2014 at 4:45 pm
I once spent a winter in the Berkshires. Never again.
Can’t blame you on that one.
November 23, 2014 at 9:36 pm
@30: From the picture it looks like it was some kind of mailer (look under the can at the top) and I’m hoping this was just maybe an attack mailer or something. Don’t want to believe she’s that desperate.
Watching Odell Beckham (LSU!) prove that he’s double-jointed or has a rubber spine or something. LOL!
November 24, 2014 at 7:37 am
The only more amazing catch that I can recall is Tyrone Prothro’s catch behind the defender’s neck.
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The Widdershins 
November 21, 2014 at 11:30 pm
It’s been a blah day.