Musical (re)acquisitions
And now a post on one of the fun parts of aging...rediscovering stuff you used to like. (And still getting to discover new stuff!)
A while ago I came into possession of a bunch of iTunes song credits. Here's what I bought:
Dancing With Myself | Billy Idol | Billy Idol: Greatest Hits |
Fat and Proud | Steriogram | Schmack |
Cool for Cats (Single Edit) | Squeeze | Squeeze: Greatest Hits (Reissue) |
Crazy World | Scorpions | Crazy World |
Dance Me to the End of Love | Madeleine Peyroux | Careless Love |
Get the Party Started | P!nk | M!ssundaztood |
I Ran | A Flock of Seagulls | Platinum & Gold Collection: A Flock of Seagulls |
Jump | Van Halen | 1984 (Remastered) |
Lady Marmalade | Patti LaBelle | Best of Patti Labelle |
The Look of Love, Pt. 1 | ABC | The Lexicon of Love (Bonus Track) |
Love Alive | Heart | The Essential Heart |
Love Hurts (Single) | Nazareth | Hair of the Dog |
Love My Way | The Psychedelic Furs | All of This and Nothing |
Medley: Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody | David Lee Roth | Crazy from the Heat - EP |
Pipeline | Agent Orange | Living In Darkness |
Respect | P!nk featuring Scratch | M!ssundaztood |
Should I Stay or Should I Go | The Clash | Combat Rock |
This Is Radio Clash | The Clash | The Singles |
Tubular Bells (Opening Theme) | Mike Oldfield | Elements |
West End Girls | Pet Shop Boys | Please - Further Listening 1984-1986 |
The Zoo | Scorpions | 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Scorpions |
What music have you (re)acquired lately?
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My latest reacquisition would be the new Traveling Wilburys re-release.
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Heh. Just the other day I learned that Eighties icon Jan Hammer was a member of John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra back in the 1970s. (Stef & I can each count two degrees of separation there. Well, sort of.)
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I do rather like Mike Oldfield's stuff, even though a lot of it on the CD I have seems to be very good middles of songs that fade out rather than delivering on the ending they're building up to.
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I've not reacquired anything old lately, but I have been going through some old albums I haven't played in ages. On the drive to Wiscon, we brought the Grapes of Wrath album, "September Bowl of Green," with us in the car. We only listened to it once or twice on the whole trip, but I kept wanting to put it back in and put it on repeat. It's a great album that I haven't listened to since highschool. I even still remember most of the words to sing along!
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I Ran A Flock of Seagulls Platinum & Gold Collection: A Flock of Seagulls
Lady Marmalade Patti LaBelle Best of Patti Labelle
Love Alive Heart The Essential Heart
Love My Way The Psychedelic Furs All of This and Nothing
I haven't heard of most of them, though. I still really like the Patti LaBelle song.
I think 80s music is great! Certainly a great improvement over 70s music (whichever type you name).
I'm looking forward to 90s music nostalgia. I was glued to the radio and went to quite a few concerts in the 90s. The radio is now useless as far as hearing decent music, which makes music listening a drag in the car. (I don't have Sirius, and I do like surprises when listening to music, so CDs are of limited enjoyment, unless I'm in the mood for something specific.)
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Of course we know one reason why that's so...
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LOL, yep! :)
I admit I like disco, but not for too long a stretch at one time. I also like some 70s "schlock-rock" (ie, soft rock), but most of it makes me want to hurl.
This reminds me, there was a show on VH-1 the other night, "The Most Softsational Soft Rock Hits", or something like that - a countdown of the top 40. I missed most of it, and of the ones I saw, they were mostly on the order of "Afternoon Delight", "Mandy", and "The Pina Colada Song", all of which, incidentally, are high on the list in Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs. On the other hand, I had to hand it to them for making "Sailing" by Christopher Cross Number One. So shoot me, I love that song.
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I admit to liking "Mandy," especially after I heard it was about a dog.
I just listened to the "Sailing" clip and I can't even remember hearing it before, although I must have.
I was ambivalent about Elton John in the 70s, but I'm liking him more and more.
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My big discovery has been Radio Nigel (http://www.radionigel.com) - all new wave 80s. (Not today, because of the web day of silence (http://www.savenetradio.org/about/index.html)).
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