Monday, September 10, 2007

Turn of the decade

And by this I mean the transition from the 70s to the 80s. This was possibly the most varied and interesting time in the history of pop music. I began this period as a young lad who had been listening mostly to top-40 on AM radio, which means everything from motown to country to disco to rock. Here's a song that, like most on AM, got massively overplayed, but which in this case I never got sick of: Deja Vu by Dionne Warwick (co-written by Isaac Hayes). I really like the mellowness and laid back tempo and the atmosphere evoked by the instrumentation. And it looks like Paul Klee was resurrected to make the video.

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