There's a great series about pop music on Sky Arts called Soundbreakers, the programs are about singing, what you can do in the recording studios, electric sounds ect. The last one I saw was supposed to be about formats (LPs ect), but it was more about peoples love of music, & there was a lot of sound bites at the end, & one of them was from conductor Michael Tilson Thomes, & he said:
"Our lives are pretty much defined by, what, I dunno, 20, 30 records".
Being Sunday morning I decided to make a list, not a best of, but albums that have really meant something to me. It's okay, I'm not going to list 'em, I kept it at 30, & it worked out:
Pop - 10 Soundtrack - 5 Classical - 15
The earliest is The Beatles, A Hard Days Night & the most recent bought album is Freidhofer's One-Eyed Jacks. There are in fact more than 30 records, as quite a few of my choices are multi-disc sets, & four of my classic choices are conducted by Raymond Leppard (composer of Alfred The Great), & four of the soundtracks are from the sixties & one from the seventies (Morricone's, Giu La Testa), & only four acts for pop, The Beatles, Kevin Ayers, Steely Dan & Sparks. Maybe this thinking about music in terms of albums is becoming a bit old fashioned these days with downloads & people thinking of music as tracks.
That's pretty much it for me - backwards and forwards in slow, methodical circles. The younger generation, on the other hand, lives in a fast moving stream.
No (thanks for the interest), a great album & that's what started it all - I can still remember, This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us coming over on the radio, wow! - it's two & three, Propaganda & Indiscreet (& certainly not four, Big Beat, what a huge disappointment after Indiscreet). And I only have one Shostakovich (sym. 6, I should really have tried to find room for the violin cont. as well), I really had to cut down to keep it to 30 & not 60 (or 90), but that would have been a big bunch of favourites, instead of a small collection that "defines me" - whatever that means?
We need a Sparks thread, don't want to derail this one.
This Town was my first and I think only "pop" single (popular beat combo, m'lud) - it blew me away too when I first heard it, and it remains the only pop song that ever did that.
This is why I keep coming back here and clicking open threads seemingly randomly (and sometimes have to kind of decipher what the heck you all are talking about). Somehow The Sparks are new to me, and now I've found a new favorite song. For anyone similarly unawares:
Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us
This is why I keep coming back here and clicking open threads seemingly randomly (and sometimes have to kind of decipher what the heck you all are talking about). Somehow The Sparks are new to me, and now I've found a new favorite song. For anyone similarly unawares:
And yes, I've now completely derailed this thread, sorry.
That's okay, this thread was dead on its feet, never enough Sparks, try the album.
