music meme to help me ignore the sickies
Mar. 27th, 2005 08:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swingchickie1. total volume of music on my computer - 1.14 GB. hrm, i think i need to step up and do some downloadin'.
2. the last CD i bought was - eek. i so rarely buy CDs... it was either "comfort eagle" by cake (because i'd seen them live and wanted some of the stuff i'd heard) or "baduism" by erykah badu (because i left it in a rental car and can't live without listening to it once a week).
3a. the last song i listened to before writing this was - "hawaiian war chant" by big kahuna and the copa cat pack. D and i listened to the whole CD yesterday, and i have him totally hooked.
3b. song playing right now - nothin'.
4. five songs i listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me:
* "rimshot" by erykah badu - for 2 reasons... first, every time i hear it, i think of a johnny lloyd hip-hop lindy workshop i took many, many years ago... he used that song in the class, and it was the first time i saw someone blend 2 forms of dance so beautifully... it really spoke to me and changed my whole view of swing dancing. and second, her voice is so hypnotic and soulful... i completely mellow out every time i listen to it.
* "trumpet" by josh clayton-felt - there's a long story that goes with this. in the early 90s, i was working at a radio station in philadelphia (that was recently bought out and the format changed, grrr). we used to always get new artists coming in to play live in our conference room... it was a way of labels getting stations to play their new talent on-air. so one day this gorgeous guy was brought in to play, josh clayton-felt, who used to be in the band School of Fish. this was his first solo album. but i wasn't able to stay and listen, because i was on my way out to meet with a client. when i got back to the station, everyone raved about him... so i scored some tickets to see him live that weekend opening for del amitri (*gag*) at a club in delaware. from the first note he hit on that stage, i was hooked... never in my life had someone's music hit me as powerfully and suddenly as his did that night. the next morning i bought his CD, and it's all i listened to for months. it became the soundtrack for my life at the time, and has so many memories associated with it -- one night, one of my girlfriends and i went to a local krispy kreme to hang out for a bit, and i thought the manager was really cute and sweet... so i left him a note on our table, written on the back of my business card, and my friend and i raced across the street in my car to sit in a dark parking lot, watching what would happen through the krispy kreme windows in the distance. an employee found the note and brought it to him, as my friend and i sat across the street in my car and screamed our heads off like teenagers, with josh's CD blaring through the speakers. (no, the manager and i never dated. he was engaged. oops.) anyway, years later, i moved to boston, and one day decided to look josh up online. turns out he had moved up here, and i was thrilled, thinking of all the gigs i could see him at. but then i discovered why he was here -- he had moved back in with his family, so that he could die at home of cancer at 33 years old. it was completely tragic, and i'm sickened to think of all the music we'll never hear from him. his first solo album is brilliant and fun and haunting and original, and it'll be one of my favorites for the rest of my life.
* "be my number two" by joe jackson - it reminds me of the summer of 1988, dating the guy who i had considered to be the love of my life. it was on our favorite CD, and we listened to it all summer... it was romantic and beautiful and said a lot about our romance. every time i hear it, i think about being 17 and in love, kissing him under the stars in the back seat of his parents' car, and the smell of the clean summer air and his cologne.
* "cosmic girl" by jamiroquai - they just completely rock my world, and this song is so much fun. i *squoosh* them so much.
* "fairground" by simply red - first of all, because i want to have mick hucknall's nappy-red-headed babies. second, because this whole album is, to me, total sex music, and this song is one of the best on the album -- driving percussion, yet a smooth melody and vocals... makes you really imagine you're at a carnival on a warm summer night.
5. which 5 people are you passing this baton on to, and why?
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weezerthe1 - 'cause i have no idea what her musical tastes are.
thetech - ditto.
mugsy1274 - 'cause he owns everything.
naughtyboy - 'cause he's my favorite DJ, and he'll probably think this is a pain in the ass. *taunt*
menschenjaeger - anyone who appreciates my soup collection must have cool music.
2. the last CD i bought was - eek. i so rarely buy CDs... it was either "comfort eagle" by cake (because i'd seen them live and wanted some of the stuff i'd heard) or "baduism" by erykah badu (because i left it in a rental car and can't live without listening to it once a week).
3a. the last song i listened to before writing this was - "hawaiian war chant" by big kahuna and the copa cat pack. D and i listened to the whole CD yesterday, and i have him totally hooked.
3b. song playing right now - nothin'.
4. five songs i listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me:
* "rimshot" by erykah badu - for 2 reasons... first, every time i hear it, i think of a johnny lloyd hip-hop lindy workshop i took many, many years ago... he used that song in the class, and it was the first time i saw someone blend 2 forms of dance so beautifully... it really spoke to me and changed my whole view of swing dancing. and second, her voice is so hypnotic and soulful... i completely mellow out every time i listen to it.
* "trumpet" by josh clayton-felt - there's a long story that goes with this. in the early 90s, i was working at a radio station in philadelphia (that was recently bought out and the format changed, grrr). we used to always get new artists coming in to play live in our conference room... it was a way of labels getting stations to play their new talent on-air. so one day this gorgeous guy was brought in to play, josh clayton-felt, who used to be in the band School of Fish. this was his first solo album. but i wasn't able to stay and listen, because i was on my way out to meet with a client. when i got back to the station, everyone raved about him... so i scored some tickets to see him live that weekend opening for del amitri (*gag*) at a club in delaware. from the first note he hit on that stage, i was hooked... never in my life had someone's music hit me as powerfully and suddenly as his did that night. the next morning i bought his CD, and it's all i listened to for months. it became the soundtrack for my life at the time, and has so many memories associated with it -- one night, one of my girlfriends and i went to a local krispy kreme to hang out for a bit, and i thought the manager was really cute and sweet... so i left him a note on our table, written on the back of my business card, and my friend and i raced across the street in my car to sit in a dark parking lot, watching what would happen through the krispy kreme windows in the distance. an employee found the note and brought it to him, as my friend and i sat across the street in my car and screamed our heads off like teenagers, with josh's CD blaring through the speakers. (no, the manager and i never dated. he was engaged. oops.) anyway, years later, i moved to boston, and one day decided to look josh up online. turns out he had moved up here, and i was thrilled, thinking of all the gigs i could see him at. but then i discovered why he was here -- he had moved back in with his family, so that he could die at home of cancer at 33 years old. it was completely tragic, and i'm sickened to think of all the music we'll never hear from him. his first solo album is brilliant and fun and haunting and original, and it'll be one of my favorites for the rest of my life.
* "be my number two" by joe jackson - it reminds me of the summer of 1988, dating the guy who i had considered to be the love of my life. it was on our favorite CD, and we listened to it all summer... it was romantic and beautiful and said a lot about our romance. every time i hear it, i think about being 17 and in love, kissing him under the stars in the back seat of his parents' car, and the smell of the clean summer air and his cologne.
* "cosmic girl" by jamiroquai - they just completely rock my world, and this song is so much fun. i *squoosh* them so much.
* "fairground" by simply red - first of all, because i want to have mick hucknall's nappy-red-headed babies. second, because this whole album is, to me, total sex music, and this song is one of the best on the album -- driving percussion, yet a smooth melody and vocals... makes you really imagine you're at a carnival on a warm summer night.
5. which 5 people are you passing this baton on to, and why?
weezerthe1 - 'cause i have no idea what her musical tastes are.thetech - ditto.mugsy1274 - 'cause he owns everything.naughtyboy - 'cause he's my favorite DJ, and he'll probably think this is a pain in the ass. *taunt*menschenjaeger - anyone who appreciates my soup collection must have cool music.
