June 11, 2005
Music
For the first time in my blogging life, someone has passed me a meme. The meme consists of the following five questions:
- Total Volume of Music
- Last CD I bought
- Song playing right now
- Five songs I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me
- Five people to whom I'm passing the baton
I love music and cannot imagine my life without it. That said, this meme was a lot harder to respond to than I would've imagined. Like Ray, my musical tastes and listening habits have changed over the years, so it's difficult to summarize them. But what the hell. I'll give it a shot.
The first music (on tape) I remember actually going out and buying with my own money was Cupid & Psyche 85 by Scritti Politti. Needless to say, I've come a long way since then. Throughout junior high and high school I went through various phases (they're probably closer to obsessions, but that's neither here nor there), not necessarily with artists as with albums. I would become fixated on specific tapes and play them over and over until the tape snapped in half (or melted in my car in the Texas heat) and I had to buy a replacement.
The first such obsession was in junior high with The Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill (do I really need to link to that folks? You all know what I'm talking about). I then went to a church camp in central Texas one summer where I met this amazing girl who wore all black and dyed her hair funky colors. She listened to bands I'd never heard of, like The Cure and The Violent Femmes and The Velvet Underground.
My horizons officially broadened, I became fixated on whatever I stumbled across -- I had a serious Housemartins faze, I fell in love with The Beatles and couldn't get enough of The Police. For the most part, I had mainstream tastes mixed in with a few oddities. As with most people who came of age in the 1980's, I started making mix tapes in earnest (mostly for myself at first, before I realized there were others who had similar tastes in music and then I gave them to friends).
In college I ended up befriending someone who loved music as much as I did, and we later became roommates with one killer combined music collection. We went to concerts together (one really fabulous concert by David Garza comes to mind, when we braved the seedier parts of Memphis to check out his show at a warehouse. I think we were the only patrons there) and she introduced me to one of my all-time favorite bands,Old 97's.
I'm sad to report that my days post-college have not been nearly as music-filled. The high point was stumbling upon the CDMOM club, which was a great introduction to some fabulous indie music (not to mention an introduction to a good friend). These days, I don't buy nearly as much music as I'd like, but I get to listen to a fair amount of good stuff thanks to my XM satellite radio subscription.
Oh yeah, and to answer the point of the first question in the meme? I have no frickin' clue how much music I have. I have quite a few CD's, but I haven't counted them in a long time (and I'm not gonna do it now). I have some music stored on my computer, but not as much as I'd like. After my computer crashed last year and I lost so much stuff, I'm wary of storing music on computer.
2.The last CD I bought was Here's to Shutting Up by Superchunk. Good stuff.
3.The song playing right now is Landed by Ben Folds. I am such a sucker for piano music. I actually took piano lessons for eight or nine years growing up. That's one of those things I never should've given up.
4. Five songs I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me. You've got to be kidding me, only five? This could be tricky.
- Everlasting Love, the cover by U2 -- this song means a lot to me because the college roommate made Archi-Sapper and I a mix-cd for our wedding and we listened to it in the rental car as soon as we left the airport on our honeymoon. This song was the first song on the cd and it was perfect. Whenever I hear it, I think of Archi-Sapper and I starting our new life together. Everyone say, "Awwww." Ooookay, moving on.
- Buddy Holly's Ghost by Colin Boyd -- If you heard this song, you'd know why. One of the last lines in the song is, "Don't get me near an airplane, not me, I'm Buddy Holly's ghost. Oh no, I just don't like to fly much now, thank you, I'm Buddy Holly's ghost."
- Complicated by Pot Dog Pondering -- I can't explain it. I just love it.
- Why Should I Cry For You? by Sting -- No list of mine would be complete with some Sting or Police. I love The Soul Cages and this song got me through some rough times.
- Overkill by Colin Hay -- I just love it. The acoustic version is amazing. While growing up in north central Texas, once I got my car, I would hop in my car at night, pop in a tape, roll down the windows (mostly due to a lack of working a/c) and just drive. If I still did that, I'd listen to this song.
5. Five people to whom I'm passing the baton. Victims! I love it! Hmmmm....decisions, decisions. To be honest, a number of people whose answers I'd like to see don't blog, so that's a little tricky. So, here's what we'll do: I'll pass the baton to a couple of bloggers and a couple of non-bloggers. The non-bloggers can either post their answers in my comments, or send them to me and I'll post them in an entry. Of course, I don't want to "out" any of the non-bloggers who don't already have set "internet names" they use for posting, so I'm just going to have to describe you folks and let you out yourselves. You'll know who you are.
I'm passing the baton to:
As for non-bloggers, I shall pass the baton to Vauda (who has already used her name in the comments, so I'm not outing her), and the attorney who did the closing on our house. I would be outing him if I used his real name, so I'll leave it up to him to pick an internet name for himself if he wants to respond to this post.
Posted by Kitty at June 11, 2005 10:56 PM
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