I picked up the CD of Roxette's Look Sharp! last weekend at a church rummage sale. Turns out I don't like it.
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Friday Music Day: Desert Island Twenty
Earlier this week, Algonad asked for some help figuring out what turntable he should purchase to play twenty albums – the twenty albums he would choose to have on a deserted island. In the discussion that followed, ubelmann mentioned that he was working on sifting and winnowing his digital music library to under 64 GB. I was really intrigued by the idea of voluntary artificial constrains on a music collection. I’m a digital hoarder, and have accumulated nearly 100 GB of music. I have two small bookcases jam-packed with CDs and a small vinyl collection. So what would I do if I could only take twenty records with me to a desert island? Would I take the music most important to me, or the best stuff in my collection, or the longest albums, or what?
I’ve thought about it for a couple days, and I’m still not sure I have an answer that satisfies. Not all of the albums below contain music I have strong emotional attachment to based upon significance to specific events or periods of my life, though some of it certainly does resonate. I suppose if I were headed to that island I’d try to bargain, and ask for one supplemental CD mix of songs that I have a deep personal attachment to, just to preserve my sense of identity and emotional connection to my loved ones. But otherwise, I think I’d want to have music that was provocative and beautiful, so that’s what I have below.
CH's Desert Island Twenty
- Modern Jazz Quartet - The Complete Last Concert
- Frank Sinatra - September of My Years
- Bill Evans - Conversations with Myself
- Antônio Carlos Jobim - Wave
- Oscar Peterson - Olympia, 1963 – The Champs Élysées, 1964
- Tomasz Stańko - Leosia
- Louis Armstrong - The Hot Fives, Vol. 1
- Mary Lou Williams - Black Christ of the Andes
- Cesária Évora - São Vicente
- Anouar Brahem - Le Pas du Chat Noir
- Tower of Power - Urban Renewal
- Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
- Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willy and the Poor Boys
- Rodriguez - Cold Fact
- Bruce Springsteen - Live in Dublin
- Glenn Gould - Bach: The Goldberg Variations
- Daniel Barenboim - Chopin: Nocturnes
- Albert King - Born Under a Bad Sign
- Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
- Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
What's your desert island twenty?
Friday Music Day, 2013-11-29
Today is still a Friday, so I guess we should have one of these.
So here we are. Suggested listening, Bonnie "Prince" Billy: "How About Thank You?"
Friday Music Day: November 22, 2013.
Hope this week finds your player with some good randomness. I've added some new stuff (from CDs old and new). Will it show up? Will I express an opinion or two? Your guess is as good as mine.
Now lay down what your player is giving you!
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Friday Music Day: November 15, 2013
It's Friday again, just when I was getting a good rhythm going at work.
Well there its anyways so let's talk about music. If you want.
Friday Music Day, November 8, 2013
List: 1 to 4.
1. So, there's like 53 days left in the year.
I've heard little new music for the year that's really gotten me excited.
At least, away from some usual suspects (HHT, Ye, Eric Copeland). Ya'll got something to recommend? For me in particular or others in general.
2. Hey Cheaptoy, does this sound good to you?
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Friday Music Day, November 1, 2013
I cleared off my iPod on Wednesday and rebuilt my playlist from scratch of what I think I really want to hear.
Not sure how it's going yet, Yesterday was a lot of Halloween music. Today's the test.
Friday Music Day: Oct 25, 2013
1. This looks promising.
2. People often like to talk about good music for Halloween in the week before Halloween. Which this is. So go for it.
3. Or just share a regular random list.
Friday Music Day: Oct 18, 2013
I'm going to see Ha Ha Tonka at the 7th Street Entry on Wednesday. Anyone else?
Friday Music Day: Oct 11, 2013
I mentioned Emot last January, and I'm really digging this EP that the song was from.
Particularly the song "Lifting Off" (#2).
It's about drugs. But just not drugs, there's some nostalgia and regret in there. Country-tinged, psychedelic, moody. Is this what the Grateful Dead sound like to their fans? Except I don't wanna see gummi bears, I wanna watch an epic space anime (with the depth of Voices of a Distant Star) with this as the soundtrack.
They'll have a new album soon, I'm told. I think that the second album is better than the first, and the EP better than the second album, so I'm excited to hear what they come up with.