It’s another cold, grey Monday and with it comes another song which I reckon most of you haven’t heard but should enjoy – Serenade from the Stars by Steve Miller Band. I remember hearing this one for the first time quite a few year’s back in Plan B’s skate video Virtual Reality, and I immediately took to this little known mid-70′s gem.
There’s not a whole lot I want to say about this one other than it does a great job of capturing what (I can only assume, because I wasn’t there…) was the feeling of an era of breaking away from stringent norms and a structured and long-established status quo by putting things into perspective: what could be easier to remind us just how deeply ingrained so many of the social constructs are which we take for granted as necessary and normal parts of human life, than stepping way, way back and reminding ourselves that we’re just thinking meat on lonely planet hurtling through space, and so much of the shit we get ourselves so stressed out about really, really, really doesn’t matter that much. Chill out, everyone.
Thanks.
Enjoy the song.
Tags: Plan B, Serenade from the Stars, Steve Miller, Steve Miller Band
