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Originally Posted by Dead-Air
The story/soundtrack to The Point by Nilson was pretty affecting for me. My parents weren't hippies and didn't overall go for that culture, but this record and cartoon somehow crossed over to people like them as o.k. to play for your kids. Brilliantly subversive, that!
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And our aesthetic paths arrive at yet another eerie coincidence.
The Point was HUGE in our house while I was in my earliest years. HUGE. I have it still, and still listen to it on occasion. The cartoon is great too.
My parents were most definitely hippie weirdo freaks at that time though, so I guess there are still a few differences between us.
The soundtrack cassette in my dad's converted-for-living Dodge Tradesman 200 (with real cedar paneling for the interior - smelled really good) when we moved across the country in 1976 (and back again two years later) consisted largely of the Moody Blues' "In Search Of The Lost Chord" and "On The Threshold Of A Dream," both of which also share a special place in my heart and home, and probably represent the beginnings of my interest in Mystical Shit With Mellotrons. My dad is pretty "cosmic" and would try and enlighten me on the over-arching themes in music like this. I know now just how pompous and overblown this stuff is, but I still like it even so.