Isn't Life Strange?
We live in interesting times.
I love The Moody Blues and two of their songs appear in my Spotify #Top 500 Songs that are the musical fabric of my life, which I talk about in this podcast. You can subscribe to the playlist through the link above.
The 2 songs are Dear Diary and Isn’t Life Strange. This version is live at the Royal Albert Hall. My wife and I flew to Wellington in New Zealand to see them at the Westpac Centre in 2004 and it was everything I hoped it would be. I remember having tears in my eyes seeing them for real and listening to music that I had grown up with as a teenager. At 643 km that is the farthest, I have travelled specifically for a concert. Most bands come to Auckland, but this one didn’t and it was a treat to travel that far that wasn’t for work.
We live in strange times. I knew from an early age that in my lifetime I would experience more change than mankind had experienced in history. That thought might be extreme if you think of historical landmarks like fire, Gutenberg, colonialism and 2 World Wars.
What I mean is the pace of change in the way we live. Fire took a long time to take hold if you will pardon the pun.
In addition to technological advances at a pace that is breathtaking, for example, the smartphone, the Internet, electronic funds and cryptocurrency, travel from one side of the world to the other in a day, we now have COVID, with work from home and its impact on where people will work and live where it suits them, rather than in the big cities because that is where the jobs are.
I’ll do a separate post on Dear Diary, as it evokes some cool memories from a farm in Wharahine, hay baling, collecting mud oysters, and playing guitar to cows, to buying an amazing Hammond F3000 keyboard and Leslie speaker and thinking I was Moodie Blues, Jimmy Smith and a church organist at 10 Richmond Rd, in Auckland’s fringe suburb of Ponsonby.
So back to Moody Blues:
Isn't life strange?
A turn of the page
Can read like before
Can we ask for more?
Each day passes by
How hard man will try?
The sea will not wait
You know it makes me want to cry, cry, cry
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