«Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato

@immatthewj, I had older sisters too! I remember my father getting my ’big baby sister’ a small 45 rpm record player for her birthday I think, and believe or not, my Dad got a policeman he knew to cord off with wooden horses right in front of the house in the middle of the street so she could have a ’sock hop’ for her as that’s what she wanted! Amazing, you got that memory out of me! I couldn’t’ have been more than 5 years old. That 45 rpm record player was the one first in the neighborhood that any young person had got and he made a way for her to have a blast of a time! Wow! I think those positive thoughts made my blood pressure go down some! And yes it was that same sister that got me Yeah, yeah she loves you too a host of other Beatle records as the years went by.

In the sixties and seventies there was a measure of musical artists that went "...yes, but do they have anything to say?" This was certainly applied to Dylan and many of the song writers mentioned in this thread. And many of them did. History may well decide that that period was a cultural renaissance and that we were blessed with a lot of music that not only entertained but also spoke to the political times and the human experience on many levels. It seems much of the lyrical content today only seeks to entertain.

In 1970 Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter wrote ‘Ripple’, ‘Brokedown Palace’, and ‘To Lay Me Down’ in a single day! As he himself said: "Oh would that those days would come again. Oh, they will-but not for me."

P.S. I like a lot of Country music too. Just the other day I listened to some George Jones...

Speaking of Jones, I'm of the mind of Quincy Jones who said a record (or album). 'It's like a photo or snapshot in time.'

@tyray

". . .Memories can be friends
they can take you to a place
That you never thought you’d be again
And take you to a place
That you never ever thought
That you would see again. . ."

Jim Croce/Recently

The only place I’ve seen or heard of this guy is from a youtube algorithm. Expert in music? I don’t know?

Beato is just a guitarist musician among others.. I never say that he was more...He does not claim more either.

But i like his video because he had no pretense save saying his mind in a funny way...

And he know  guitar music and a little  more ...

I select this video as start of discussion not because he was an authority but because for me there is truth in what he tried to convey ...