Sowing the Seeds on Baker Street With Funky Music and Silence #MusicMovesMe

It's Monday and it's time for another episode of Music Moves Me.

Who are the members of Music Moves Me ?  We are bloggers who blog about music each Monday. If you have music to share with us, you are most welcome to join!  Just remember our simple rule:  you must include at least one You Tube or Vimeo video or your post may be subject to removal or labeling "NO MUSIC". You are welcome to write about music. too but we need that video!

So let's get started.

This is the last Monday Michelle from Musings and Merriment from Michelle is guest hosting.  Thank you, Michelle.  For this Monday Michelle chose a "You Pick" week.  So, hee hee, we can do whatever we want.

I'm in a 70's and 80's kind of mood right now and I want to be moved, so I will start with a song that I think I've had on my blog before.  If I did, it's good enough for a rerun.  Here is "Sowing The Seeds of Love" from Tears for Fears.  It's from 1989 but that is still the 80's.

When this song came out, I never realized how political the lyrics were.  Listening to it now, with pandemic ears, it has a whole new meeting.  So, if this doesn't meet your political views, I hope you can still groove with the tune.

Time for another long one, this time from 1978 and Gerry Rafferty.  I heard Baker Street on a fellow Music Moves Me'er's blog last week so I guess it's going to be another rerun. I love the saxophone in this song.

Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go, by Soft Cell.  This was released in 1981 in Great Britain and 1982 in the United States.  There are several extended versions on You Tube, but I like the original version (and yes, they are covering The Supremes' Where Did Our Love Go in the second part) better than the remixes.

Now, let's speed it up.

From 1976 comes Wild Cherry, with Play That Funky Music.  This song will always bring back memories for me, and I wonder if anyone can solve a mystery.  (Incidentally, this is the story behind this big hit.)

My spouse was in the Air Force in 1976, stationed at Sheppard Air Force Base, which was, and is still, a training base located in Wichita Falls, Texas.  Various bands played the Airman's Club there.  One band was Vince Vance and the Valients, and they were soooooo good.  When they played this song (we saw them there several times and always made a point to show up when they performed), the crowd went wild.  I wonder if this was the same band  who went on to have a hit with "All I Want for Christmas is You."

So, do I have time for one more? I sure do, and this song just barely is a 1980's song - recorded in 1989, released in 1990.  So let's Enjoy the Silence with Depeche Mode.  Even though this post wasn't that silent...
That's a late June wrap.

You know the drill, people!    Same time next week, same place!