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I moved house on Friday...
Posted by Oscar Patterson on 16 February 2010 - 12:37pm.
...and although it was seven years since my last move - before that it was a succession of flats around South London, so it happened more regularly - I still played an album which I've played as the first music (of any kind, including radio) in any new property for a long number of years, namely "Dummy" by Portishead. I loaded my iPod especially, and made sure an iPod speaker was handy. The album or artist is not my favourite by a long stretch, but its a tradition...
My wife thinks I'm mad to have such a routine, but if know that if I'll find an ear for such lunacy, I'll find it hear, anyone have any house moving / musical 'superstitions'??
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Not Alone:
First music played marks a milestone.
First Car: Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
First House: Ramones - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
Last House Move: After emptying the van, the first task was to set up the stereo. First track played: Carole Bayer Sager - You're Moving Out Today (it seemed appropriate/amusing at the time!)
First two weeks in the new place, it was like bachelor heaven - one whole corner of the front room consisted of stereo, stack of vinyl & CDs (in half emptied boxes), random DVDs, TV & kettle (there was another kettle in the kitchen, this was just a spare).
Week 3 - trip to IKEA, new shelves, and a fully ordered Vinyl, CD & DVD library
Moving House Song
For me it's Loudon Wainwright III's Cardboard Boxes.
We bought our first house
in 1993 and I'll always associate moving in with Bjork's Debut and decorating to the The Auteurs' New Wave.
"I took a showgirl for my bride...."
Some early HJH
has always been my first music in a new house, possibly in the fanciful expectation that Jean Shrimpton or Marrianne Faithfull might then at any moment tiptoe up to the door looking for some sugar. God, aren't men pathetic!
I moved house on Sunday
and already I can't remember what the first songs I played were. Will remember when I update the iTunes, however.
Frank Turner
Turns it out it was 'Love, Ire and Song'
ABC Lexicon Of Love
is my test album when I go and buy one.
It is then always the album I put on first when I get a new stereo/cd player/Ipod. If that sounds like I'm expecting it to sound then things are fine.
I haven't gone as far as making it my first music played in a new place yet, but I might just do that next move....
My equivalent is Reg's Capt Fantastic
Any new kit or repositioned speaker has been christened with it for well over 30 years now.
Guilty as you, Oscar.
Since my first student Hall Of Residence back in 1986, through student house, first flat, first house and, most recently, first family house the first music played in each has been Planets by Eloy. I thought my wife would find it a fascinating quirk in her husband's otherwise boringly logical makeup.
She thought I was a loony. And that the album was shite.
Perceptive your wife then?
;)
Not at all!
It's an excellent album...
Hi-fi set-up song
Slave to the Rhythm.
Testing,testing....
Kit tester Angel by Massive Attack.House warming music The Bonzos.
Exile on main street
Every piece of kit including houses and cars...
My acid test ..
for hifi also has tradition: Babylon Sisters by Steely Dan. That one really sorts them out.
Funny...
'Gaucho' is song number two of my test pile. The chorus, in particular sorts the Naim from the Bose.
Next up is 'Techno' by John Scofield.
I do.
Five Live Kursaals by the Kursaal Flyers. A thing of joy.