Living Room Suite - Harry Chapin
Track List:
Dancin’ Boy
If You Want to Feel
Poor Damned Fool
I Wonder What Would Happen to This World
Jenny
It Seems You Only Love Me When It Rains
Why Do Little Girls
Flowers Are Red
Somebody Said
I’ve been looking forward to this one
I heard Dancin’ Boy around the same time my oldest child was 2 and I really liked it. Flowers Are Red I heard before that, I think it’s on Greatest Stories and I heard that when I was a kid. I always liked that song. I think I have also heard Poor Damned Fool, I Wonder What Would Happen to This World and Why Do Little Girls, however I don’t know the songs.
Dancin’ Boy is what I expected and a hit for nostalgia.
If You Want to Feel seems to be about trying to convince someone to allow themself to be vulnerable to feel better. A very strong dance beat.
Poor Damned Fool. I heard this while listening to a Chapin concert recently. He commented that it’s a true story and was played right before I Wanna Learn A Love Song.
I Wonder What Would Happen to This World I think the message of this song is just as meaningful today as it was 46 years ago.
Jenny is a song that I suspect that he wrote for his daughter.
It Seems You Only Love Me When It Rains is a really long name for a song.
Why Do Little Girls? Yes, I’ve heard this one before and I like it. It’s amazing today that there are people wanting to reverse women’s liberation.
Flowers Are Red I haven’t heard the studio version of this song much. The synth flute at the end is interesting.
Somebody Said sounds unlike anything else from the album.
Honestly this isn’t a great album. It’s got a few songs I really like and a few I could care less about.
