Entertainment For Lively Minds
Sometimes you just have to go back to the stuff you love the most..
Posted by Mousey on 3 February 2011 - 10:59am.
Like everyone here I'm bombarded by music old and new
And I'm open to it all, really
Except sometimes I just need to recharge and go back to the people I really love.
So it could be the HJH or XTC or any number of folks but this is the person that always does it for me, not necessarily this song, but in general I'll always find I'm back to my own musical self with this music.
Who does it for you?
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Steely Dan...
and Haitian Divorce and Deacon Blues in particular.
Yeah but no but
They're my second choice!
Except that FZ has a (adopt FZ "important Central Scrutinizer voice") "wider vocabulary"
But yeah, with you Patrick
With you all the way with Frank
In terms of skill, innovation and music ideas, there was more going on in just one of Zappa's albums than most other artists manage in an entire career.
And he made over 90 albums.
Zappa was the best.
Yeah.
The flip-side for me is that I often get stuck in ruts of listening to what I love until I'm a bit sick of it, which leads to a massive scorched-earth purge of the phone. In the months leading up to Christmas, I was comfort-listening, which means The Hold Steady, Pixies, AC/DC, Radiohead etc.
I realised the other day that I was skipping a lot, and not enjoying listening to anything. So I replaced all that with Laura Marling's first record, "Hats" by the Blue Nile (which I don't know all that well), "Oftentimes" by A Genuine Freakshow, "Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night" by Stereolab and Bonnie "Prince" Billy's "I See A Darkness". I also have El Hombre Malo's "2010 in Review" compilation on there. But that's it.
Sometimes it's just as nice to chuck the familar stuff out of the window - in my case, loud rock music - and cleanse the palate a little.
just this morning
I commuted with Walk across the rooftops. Gorgeous.
With you Mousey
on the FZ, or I might go for Steely Dan, or AC/DC. But invariably I will return to this lady:
I has to be
If I could do it all over again, I'd do it all over you By Caravan. Not one weak track on it. here is a nice one:
My dad used to play me the title track's bassline
when I was small (as well as the original LP, so I always knew where it came from). I guess that makes it a musical home of sorts for me too.