jonathan in the distance: playlist: oldies and newbies

we live with a sense of ingrained nostalgia, reaching instinctively for things gone past, reacting by reflex for the idyllic memories of the way things were anytime we are confronted by the shock of something new.

we do not like the new. we do not like its imposition of change. we do not like its demands to break with calcified tradition and fossilized custom and hardened formula. we hold to the habits of the old. cling to the comforts of conformity. reach for the slumber of habits and memories. and turn away from awakening in the disdain of another day.

we want one but not the other. we want nothing with the either. we want to see never of both.

auld lang syne
unknown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu8hwvvmEhc

die toten hosen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNxELGnGiGM

but it doesn't have to be this way.

there does not need to be a shock with the new.

there does not need to be the slumber of habits and memories.

there does not need to be never of both.

love will tear us apart again
joy division: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yTIpcwBTTs

nerina pallot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ega_kJQF0GY

sometimes, the new is not a demand to break.

sometimes, the new is a memory. an attempt to remember. and reach out from a place unknown to a place familiar. and realize that change came from and change is going to the same place: somewhere.

and somewhere can be someplace very special.

just can't get enough
depeche mode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0NuvwTuHV0

the saturdays: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9hq0ODBIII

there she goes
the las: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVd2x0EpnYA

sixpence none the richer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvuD7HII1b0

rocket man
elton john: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzrKlEtxTx4

me first and the gimme gimmes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KPcjdvdD9k

let your love flow
bellamy brothers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dft63gHqqKo

petra haden and the sell-outs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKHnpwAJ02E

and so the new can be every bit the same as the old. with the same feelings. with the same emotions. with the same stories with the same messages told the same way for the same reasons to the same people with the same hopes and dreams and aspirations and ideals and imaginations and visions of what once was and what now is and what will be.

regardless of time. regardless of space. regardless of who or when or what or why or how.

it's all the same.

it's a hard knock life
annie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR80EEsWauU

jayzee: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekomM8aobQo

tears of a clown
smokey robinson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2kxlZDOHeQ

the english beat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0zBXpWMJOY

i fought the law
bobby fuller: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPXnoLAEUSQ

the clash: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16u0wwCfoJ4

stray cats: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfzVDZWV4mw

green day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TOVkiBE2r4

because we are one and the other. we are all things with the either. we are always of both. old and new. in the connection most profound and eternal:

the race, the journey, the path that is the singing of the song called life.

and that is what we make of it.

stand by me
ben e king: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbg7YoXiKn0