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Songs about time
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Hi Howard
I vaguely remembered covering some things about time a while back. I started this post mostly as a result of that interesting Seneca video topic about “Life is Not Short…” in the first post here, and got on a tangent about songs about time that I thought would be fun.
For the benefit of others, here is the link to your post It’s About Time as you pulled an extensive list of songs with “time” in the title back then. I now remember it started with a poem about time I posted back then.
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Here is a Bee Gees time capsule:
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Here is a 1990s New Age gem by Enya. Sound track for the motion picture Sweet November is very moving, about how sweet the time is when you don’t have much time.
Sentiment from the first Seneca video “Life is Not Short, we just waste most of it” is portrayed here very well illustrating how precious the time is.
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OH YES…  Thanks for sharing and reminding me of that one. Beautiful, amazing, one of my favorites. First heard it for my mother’s funeral (a picture slide show I put on a table). How could that one have not made it to my phone????  I think I might not have loaded it into iTunes on my computer. Ok, it’s on now. Enya’s beautiful voice in this reminds me of MLT and the magical mystery in their videos and harmonies.
Haven’t the movie “Sweet November” – is it good?
Cool bonus! While I was typing this it rolled over to Alison Krauss – “When You Say Nothing At All.” One of my all time favorites. I think Mona and Lisa could hit that one out of the park. Of course they always do with whatever they do 🙂
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John, this brought a little tear watching the video and hearing the song, reminds me of my last trip there with my mom. Yes Enya is one of my fave 90’s new age singers, and carries a beauty in the music very much like MLT.  Yes, Sweet November is a very touching movie, I highly recommend it. It was all filmed in San Francisco which makes it that much more special for me. I will check out “When You Say Nothing At All” by Alison Krauss.
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Here’s a YouTube link for “When You Say Nothing at All”
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Yes, definitely beautiful music from Enya there Jung. It didn’t all happen in the sixties and seventies. It just seems that more recently we need to be more selective. The Internet has certainly made it easier to track down good music. A good find.
Just quietly, the nineties (at least up to ’95), were seen as an extension of the second British Invasion that commenced around 1979. The nineties included the Britpop movement with groups like the Spice Girls, Oasis, Blur and the Verve.
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Jung, I’m amazed at that song that the Bee Gees wrote at such a young age! I can easily picture Buddy Holly singing it.
This is not intended as a knock against Enya, but just an observation: every song she sings makes me sleepy. Her style reminds me of what ambient sounds feel like in the last second or two before you doze off.
If we can expand the topic a little to include movies, there is a terrific but little-known film from 1979 called “Time After Time”. The writing, acting, and direction are all superb, more than making up for the absurd premise: H.G. Wells invents a working time machine, and his friend, who is secretly Jack the Ripper, uses it to escape the police and ends up in modern-day San Francisco (where the machine is on display in a museum).
Here’s one of my favorite scenes, from the moment when H.G. first locates Jack after his escape:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvYoTPlTwpE
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That looks like an interesting movie David. It’s funny when they turn on the TV they show Yosemite Sam cartoon and the Who’s Pete Townsend smashing his guitar on stage as some of the modern violent characters. Enya made some really beautiful music but had a definitive and familiar style she did not progress further from and her music does not have the exceptional diversity of the Beatles and MLT. The more Bee Gees I get exposed to, the more impressed I am with their career. They do get a bad rap being always labeled as a disco group when it is clear they were far more than that.
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Howard, Enya and Alan Parsons Project completely escaped me last year when we discussed the songs about time in the extensive list you came up with.  It seems all the great music on any topic are all greatly concentrated around the 60s and 70s decades, and then thins out outside of that. Even through the 80s and 90s there are certain bands and sound I liked, but into the 2000s and beyond, just very little if anything. Glad we have MLT to provide the arch to all the great inspired music.
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That’s really beautiful John. Some great guitar sounds and Ukelele flourish too. -
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Joseph, thanks for posting these.
The Marty Stuart “Time Don’t Wait” is a great video and song with a nice message: “Time don’t wait on nobody, just keeps on moving on….” Like the video with the western american desert scenery, and great country rock sound.
The Rolling Stones Time is On My Side is certainly one of their great hits. I think this song resonated with me more when I was younger when time was indeed on my side more than now. 🙂 But I found this one by the stones “Time Waits For No One” that interestingly was written about 10 years later in 1974, and the lyrics probably resonated more with their more mature selves. “….hours are like diamonds, don’t let it waste”.
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