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Mad Men
Topic Started: Jan 25 2013, 11:26 AM (11,110 Views)
cccharley
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Here's the list of top billboard hits from 1968. They bring back such memories. I too didn't remember anything happening- I was only 5. I do, however, remember the music. I'm off to play some.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1968

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I just watched it last night. I thought it was an awesome episode. I agree that there needs to be more Roger, less Ginsberg. I vividly remember the night MLK was shot. I was 71/2, and we were sitting in the living room watching b/w tv (didn't get the color set until that summer). I remember my dad getting very quiet and saying something like "Hell's bells". It's amazing how some things stick with you the rest of your life. And then when they played Love Is Blue... wow... flashbacks to my childhood.
Hey, ccc... thanks for posting the list of songs from '68. I already have some of them on my IPod ...Grazing in the Grass, Do You Know the Way to San Jose, Light My Fire (Doors version), Mrs. Robsinson , The Look of Love and Otis Redding. So you guys don't think I'm totally a senior citizen, I also have Beyonce, Pitbull and Bruno Mars, to name a few. I just like to listen to music that was popular when I was 8. Because, let's face it, there are days when I wish I were 8 again.
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Well, I had just barely turned 16, so I remember it vividly. It was just devastating, and really did change everything, it became a more violent world, and that whole hope of non-violence seemed gone. The older people seemed more concerned about the fires and the riots, the racists cheered, and some of us just cried. It was a course-altering event in the USA, dividing us in much more than racial ways.

Bobby was the one, coming so soon after MLK that made me feel there was no hope or light left in the world, of course I was a hormonal teenager and very political and dramatic, but still. It felt like dementors in the world during that time. People stopped talking and started shouting, in families, in school, in demonstrations.

I think the show did a good job of showing some of that, especially with Harry, because there were MANY "Harry's." Joan being "sorry for HER loss" during that awkward hug was also spot on, because she was still in the "them vs us" mode, hadn't yet realized that it was everyone's loss.
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May 1 2013, 05:00 PM
I just watched it last night. I thought it was an awesome episode. I agree that there needs to be more Roger, less Ginsberg. I vividly remember the night MLK was shot. I was 71/2, and we were sitting in the living room watching b/w tv (didn't get the color set until that summer). I remember my dad getting very quiet and saying something like "Hell's bells". It's amazing how some things stick with you the rest of your life. And then when they played Love Is Blue... wow... flashbacks to my childhood.
Hey, ccc... thanks for posting the list of songs from '68. I already have some of them on my IPod ...Grazing in the Grass, Do You Know the Way to San Jose, Light My Fire (Doors version), Mrs. Robsinson , The Look of Love and Otis Redding. So you guys don't think I'm totally a senior citizen, I also have Beyonce, Pitbull and Bruno Mars, to name a few. I just like to listen to music that was popular when I was 8. Because, let's face it, there are days when I wish I were 8 again.
There was an interesting study done recently and they said that the music you will always most relate to was the music that you were accustomed to when you were around 10-14 - so it makes sense that it brings back memories and you love to listen. I love that stupid 70s sugar pop stuff. Reminds me of my childhood. I may have posted something about that before. I found it cool and I felt somewhat normal for my bad taste in music. Of course I still love my Grateful Dead and the Stones but still can't stop the early old pop stuff.
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I can attest to the fact that people love the music they grew up with. I was a DJ for several years and played mostly classic rock and old school soul. Whenever I tried to shake it up with a new song, even if it was by a beloved "old" artist, the phone lines would go quiet. Start playing the oldies again and people started calling telling me about their memories of the songs. Our musical memories are VERY evocative. I often hear a song and it will immediately take me back, vividly, to a place and time. I have always liked that about the songs used in Mad Men.
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cccharley
May 1 2013, 03:51 PM
Here's the list of top billboard hits from 1968. They bring back such memories. I too didn't remember anything happening- I was only 5. I do, however, remember the music. I'm off to play some.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1968

That music is EVERYTHING to me (born March '64). My parents' would do this alternating duet thing in the car (navy Blue Pontiac Convertible :) to "I Love you more today than Yesterday"(1969- just looked it up:) When we were MUCH older they still sang together in the Car- to "Thru the Years" :) I was not raised by wolves; so lucky. Want to buy every song on that list...amazing times :)
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I had a sort of bad but turned out good musical experience recently (it's good now :) John worked so hard and he liked to eat- and I like to cook- and while I was cooking he would often watch/listen to these music channels. And sometimes I would get so annoyed "turn that DOWN!" you know- Husband/Wife stuff. And I would be in the other room and he would always listen to this ONE song- I would say "That one AGAIN?" and he would say "It's my favorite song ever". And it was pretty- but I never went in the other room to see what it was. So a month ago; after the Eagles documentaries- I bought their CD's. I always LOVED the EAGLES. So Jake and I are coming back from Target and I pop the CD in- and there's John's favorite song- that I never knew was the Eagles- never bothered looking- I guess. It's called "Ol '55" . "Well, my time went so quickly; I went lickety-splittley...6 in the morning, gave me no warning, God knows, I was feeling so alive"- well- if you listen to the rest it's just a beautiful song. It's about James Dean- but so much of it when I listen to it now is just so true/ too true- to me. Was really hard that day- but a gift, now- to have found it. Was hard to drive home from Target that day :)
Edited by ranjake, May 4 2013, 02:06 AM.
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Ran you just made me cry. What a lovely story. I want a mixed tape of all those 68 songs too.
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Oh ranjake, that is such a good little gift he gave you there. What a lovely, bittersweet thing to happen. <3
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Ranjake - Ol 55 is a Tom Waits song. I am sure it is online for you to hear him sing it. Tom Waits has a very distinctive, gravelly voice and it makes that song so very, very poignant. Will be even more so for you with your lovely story.
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May 4 2013, 12:04 PM
Ranjake - Ol 55 is a Tom Waits song. I am sure it is online for you to hear him sing it. Tom Waits has a very distinctive, gravelly voice and it makes that song so very, very poignant. Will be even more so for you with your lovely story.
I have heard the Tom Waits version since I first found the song again :) Just so weird that I never knew it was the EAGLES (that John listened too) all those times he played it- because I really LOVED the EAGLES forever- maybe because it starts as Glenn Frey singing and switches to Don Henley? But still- strange. I don't know if it's still on Comcast- but there used to be all these "jukebox" channels in the 400's where you could watch old videos- and that's what John always did.
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I LOVED watching Joan handle the Pete/Don fight, and then unexpectedly decimate Don. SO well done.

Yay, the gangs back together, I've missed Peggy and Don interacting, although Peggy sure doesn't look thrilled by it all. This should be good, with Peggy going back to the place where she WAS a secretary. She isn't anymore, and I think there might be some issues when some of her old co-workers try to treat her that way.

I'm kind of shocked that Pete's father risked loosing his family, gambled on Pete not telling about his predictions. I get that he loves his daughter but that was a game of chicken with his whole world--and now they are both going to lose, and lose big. I'm really interested to see where they go with this, since I kind of love Trudy and the whle business/life mix of Pete with his inlaws.

It was good seeing Peggy and her boyfriend in the new loud, icky place with human shit in the hallways. Gentrification of areas was not as romantic as it seems in retrospect. I'm not fond of the attraction to her boss, and his to her, but I imagine it will play out well in the new work setting with Don hovering. Are Peggy and Don going to be CO creative directors or what? Lot's of potential messes with this one. I kind of love Peggy's idealistic boyfriend though, walking into Harlem in a tuxedo to get a story, so it's a little sad to see the beginnings of the end there.

I wonder what the car is? Trans Am, Vega?

It was a little jarring to see Don and Roger merge the companies without a board vote. I'll let it go, for now.
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I don't understand how Don could make the decision to merge with another company without anyone elses approval.

I don't remember, does Peggy have any ownership at the company she was working for? I think she's mad because she was kind of top dog at the new company and now going back to the old one, she won't be anymore.

I loved Joan telling Don off.

Pete's such an ass. I hope Trudy divorces him and marries Roger or someone just to piss Pete off.
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Well, Ted told her she is now Creative Director of a major firm, so I'm wondering how that works as well.

It wasn't just Don, it was Roger too, hopefully it will be a dangling loose end cleared up next week. I'm thinking they probably made a call and got approval, but the scene was cut, OR this will open a new bag of worms.

Either way, it was kind of a set up the future episode, but it really worked for me anyway.
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According to this the car in question is the Chevy Vega.

http://www.roadandtrack.com/go/pop-culture/car-culture-mad-men-chevy-xp887
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