I was born around the time you were in college.
Oddly, I've always felt lukewarm at best towards contemporary popular music. There have been some rare exceptions but...
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What are you listening to? Part III
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I was born around the time you were in college.
Oddly, I've always felt lukewarm at best towards contemporary popular music. There have been some rare exceptions but...
My roommate in college who would blow dry his hair at 6 am while I was sleeping.
Back on topic... was listening to this yesterday:
Now that sucks! lol!
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Grateful Dead - Eyes of the World.. I've always loved the bass line, especially when Phil lets loose near the end..
The Beatles, probably my all time favorite band along with The Stones. Paul has always been my favorite Beatle..
Excellent. The only song I recall by them was One Toke Over The Line. Maybe it's because I had One Toke Over The Line in my younger days..
I was born around the time you were in college.
Oddly, I've always felt lukewarm at best towards contemporary popular music. There have been some rare exceptions but...
I know. When I was a teenager, and indeed, an undergrad, I felt somewhat out of my era, too. I thought nothing of liking Baroque and classical music every bit as much as I liked Madness, for example.
Anyway, by the time I had stopped teaching, I was teaching kids who had been born when I was in college ..and unsettling thought. There were days I felt as though I was getting through to them, and that we clicked, or connected, and there were days when I thought I was teaching aliens ...
Not terribly impressed by the sound of your room-mate; I am not a morning person ...
Again, lovely stuff. Thanks for posting it.
I think it is all too easy to forget just how good the Beatles actually were, and how many really excellent songs & tracks they wrote. You very rarely hear them played on music stations nowadays - indeed, it is only on specialist music stations that you might occasionally hear one of their tracks - the sort of music station which does not distinguish between medieval plain chant, Baroque, Beethoven, trad, folk, jazz, the Beatles, Philip Glass and Miles Davis because it plays them all with equal respect, but does exclude contemporary pop ...
A very talented singer/songwriter.
Excellent. The only song I recall by them was One Toke Over The Line. Maybe it's because I had One Toke Over The Line in my younger days..
And if you want to hear some serious jazz piano...
Fantastic! I love that sort of music.
That is brilliant I have some of his tracks on a number of CDs of mine .
I love this stuff! This video knocked my socks off!! Thanks for posting it!
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You should check out a documentary made on Harry Nilsson's life. It's called "Who Is Harry Nilsson?" Did you know Ringo Starr was Harry's best man at his wedding? He was also very close friend's with John Lennon as well.. BTW the song 1941 basically mirrors Harry's life..
That was fantastic! I loved it, plus Puma seemed to enjoy it immensely as well.
No, I didn't know about his friendship with Ringo Starr and thanks for posting about it; who made the documentary? Is it available on DVD?
I thought it wonderful, as well.
How does Puma express his enjoyment with a piece of music?
Usually by trying to become one with the music! Haha
He will attempt to get into the screen and figure out where the music is coming from. Since I try to hold him back so as not to walk all over the laptop, he relinquished and just laid across my arms watching the trio play that wonderful jazz tune.
Stigma by Ufomammut.
Looking forward to their new album sometime this Spring (hoping there is another track somewhat like this one as I love it.)
Looking forward to their new album sometime this Spring (hoping there is another track somewhat like this one as I love it.)
My wife and I over the weekend went to a local new/used/BST record store, which I have to say beats anything any other store has to offer. They have just about everything you could find, including DVDs and new/used games for everything for the original Nintendo and up.
Anyway, while I was looking for some old 80s CDs, my wife hit the showtunes section, as she was looking for the soundtrack for Into The Woods and Chess (for Chess, think One Night in Bangkok, by Murray Head). She came up with something better.
I hold in my hand (literally at that) a tape. Yes, I said tape, as in cassette tape. It has a bunch of 70s music on it (I want to say none of them are older than 1979), and while I like some of the 70s, it was a dark time for me (for 4 years of the decade, I didn't exist! ).. but I have to say that this tape is really good.
It is the Awesome Mix Vol. 1 mix tape, otherwise known as the soundtrack to Guardians of the Galaxy. It has:
And with me, If I'm going to go outlandish, I'll go all out outlandish. My factory stereo in my Highlander has a tape deck, so we bought the tape (It also comes with a digital download as well). The employees there said that on Black Friday, they had CDs in stock the entire day, but sold out of the tapes in 5 minutes.
The other cool thing about this, is that with most other soundtracks, you'll get the big hit from the movie, a couple of songs to accompany it, then a few musical scores. And if it's a hit, it may be the cover of a song (for example, Rascal Flatts covering Life is a Highway, and John Mayer covering Route 66 for Disney's Cars). This tape is all of the original recordings.
Finally, this movie and 1st track should clear out any absolutely horrible and putrid memories that plague any 90s child of that god awful dancing Blockbuster baby and Ally Macbeal.
Anywho, if you haven't heard it, listen to it (and watch the movie), and enjoy!
BL.
Anyway, while I was looking for some old 80s CDs, my wife hit the showtunes section, as she was looking for the soundtrack for Into The Woods and Chess (for Chess, think One Night in Bangkok, by Murray Head). She came up with something better.
I hold in my hand (literally at that) a tape. Yes, I said tape, as in cassette tape. It has a bunch of 70s music on it (I want to say none of them are older than 1979), and while I like some of the 70s, it was a dark time for me (for 4 years of the decade, I didn't exist!
).. but I have to say that this tape is really good.It is the Awesome Mix Vol. 1 mix tape, otherwise known as the soundtrack to Guardians of the Galaxy. It has:
- Hooked on a Feeling, by Blue Swede
- Go All the Way, by the Raspberries
- Spirit in the Sky, by Norman Greenbaum
- Moonage Daydream, by David Bowie
- Fooled Around and Fell in Love, by Elvin Bishop
- I'm Not in Love, by 10cc
- I Want You Back, by the Jackson 5
- Come and Get Your Love, by Redbone
- Cherry Bomb, by the Runaways
- Escape (The Pina Colada Song), by Rupert Holmes
- O-o-h Child, by the Five Starsteps
- Ain't No Mountain High Enough, by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
And with me, If I'm going to go outlandish, I'll go all out outlandish. My factory stereo in my Highlander has a tape deck, so we bought the tape (It also comes with a digital download as well). The employees there said that on Black Friday, they had CDs in stock the entire day, but sold out of the tapes in 5 minutes.
The other cool thing about this, is that with most other soundtracks, you'll get the big hit from the movie, a couple of songs to accompany it, then a few musical scores. And if it's a hit, it may be the cover of a song (for example, Rascal Flatts covering Life is a Highway, and John Mayer covering Route 66 for Disney's Cars). This tape is all of the original recordings.
Finally, this movie and 1st track should clear out any absolutely horrible and putrid memories that plague any 90s child of that god awful dancing Blockbuster baby and Ally Macbeal.
Anywho, if you haven't heard it, listen to it (and watch the movie), and enjoy!
BL.
My wife and I over the weekend went to a local new/used/BST record store, which I have to say beats anything any other store has to offer. They have just about everything you could find, including DVDs and new/used games for everything for the original Nintendo and up.
Anyway, while I was looking for some old 80s CDs, my wife hit the showtunes section, as she was looking for the soundtrack for Into The Woods and Chess (for Chess, think One Night in Bangkok, by Murray Head). She came up with something better.
I hold in my hand (literally at that) a tape. Yes, I said tape, as in cassette tape. It has a bunch of 70s music on it (I want to say none of them are older than 1979), and while I like some of the 70s, it was a dark time for me (for 4 years of the decade, I didn't exist!
It is the Awesome Mix Vol. 1 mix tape, otherwise known as the soundtrack to Guardians of the Galaxy. It has:
- Hooked on a Feeling, by Blue Swede
- Go All the Way, by the Raspberries
- Spirit in the Sky, by Norman Greenbaum
- Moonage Daydream, by David Bowie
- Fooled Around and Fell in Love, by Elvin Bishop
- I'm Not in Love, by 10cc
- I Want You Back, by the Jackson 5
- Come and Get Your Love, by Redbone
- Cherry Bomb, by the Runaways
- Escape (The Pina Colada Song), by Rupert Holmes
- O-o-h Child, by the Five Starsteps
- Ain't No Mountain High Enough, by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
And with me, If I'm going to go outlandish, I'll go all out outlandish. My factory stereo in my Highlander has a tape deck, so we bought the tape (It also comes with a digital download as well). The employees there said that on Black Friday, they had CDs in stock the entire day, but sold out of the tapes in 5 minutes.
The other cool thing about this, is that with most other soundtracks, you'll get the big hit from the movie, a couple of songs to accompany it, then a few musical scores. And if it's a hit, it may be the cover of a song (for example, Rascal Flatts covering Life is a Highway, and John Mayer covering Route 66 for Disney's Cars). This tape is all of the original recordings.
Finally, this movie and 1st track should clear out any absolutely horrible and putrid memories that plague any 90s child of that god awful dancing Blockbuster baby and Ally Macbeal.
Anywho, if you haven't heard it, listen to it (and watch the movie), and enjoy!
BL.
Great post, lovely collection of music, and a lovely story of what sounds like a most interesting day's memory lane style shopping.
Even in the 70s and 80s, I rarely bought tapes, mainly because the record company produced cassette tapes of popular LPs tended to be recorded on pretty poor quality tapes, the sort of cassette tapes that all too easily got mangles, snarled and wrecked in the tape machines. Now, on the other hand, tapes that one bought for private recording purposes varied hugely in quality. Some were good, some excellent, and the cheaper ones, naturally enough, were sometimes very poor.
I used to buy very good ones (I remember buying wickedly expensive 'Memorex' cassettes - a friend had recommended them as pricey but excellent) but they lasted an age, recorded properly and didn't get annihilated in cassette machines. Some of my tapes lasted years ..and years ..
Oooh. I haven't heard that one for years, and years. I remember a particular summer in the very late 70s when my brother and I played that track, endlessly.
The Who - Who's Next. Probably my favorite rock album of all time.even though they weren't my favorite band (sounds weird I know) I was 19 when this was released when my life was exploding sexually, amazing bonding with my male friends, and the best girlfriends I've ever had. Life was good. Still living at home with parents who were cool (I didn't think so at the time), but my friends thought they were the bomb (not a term that was used in those days) I had a decent job and I was playing bass guitar regularly in local rock bands. I was a happy camper... That being said, I'm still happy, but my life has mellowed over the years. Still I look back on my youth smiling. Yeah man, I lived through an amazing period in rock, sex, and an amazing social experience for me...
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Why is it that almost everybody (in the western world) who came of age in the late sixties has such warm, tender, and fond memories of it all? (That question is mainly rhetorical .)
Anyway, it was more than simply sex and really good rock-and-roll .
The wider optimism that seemed to permeate certain parts of the world (civil rights, women's movement - the notion that things could only improve, could only get better, that progress was inevitable) was expressed also in some truly sublime music ..
