Music Relay Meme
Apr. 15th, 2005 02:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
semperfionaThe lovely ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
beckyzoole passed the baton to me.
I'm a little conflicted about music, actually. Before I married Ray I
used to have music on constantly. When I was growing up the house was
almost always full of music. Dad had the stereo or the radio on all the
time. It was nearly always classical, but he was also fond of ethnic
music. We had numerous balalaika orchestra albums, a couple of National
Geographic albums "Songs of the Civil War" and "Music of Scotland" (I
can still sing most of the songs on these albums from memory), Peruvian
flute music, bagpipe marches, etc etc. And when Dad wasn't playing the
stereo Mom was often playing the piano.
But Ray always turned the music off for dinner, and gradually there was
less and less music playing around me. I've still not got back in the
habit of just turning it on for myself, but there is often music playing
at the Lake House now. It's just usually turned on by Tammie or less
often Chris. I do have two or three hundred CD's and cassettes, I just
don't play them often.
I love music, though, and I really want to go back to listening to it
more often. When the music is bouncy, I tend to dance and sing around
the house and it lifts my spirits to do that. Then there's sexy music,
of which more later.
I like most kinds of music. Classical I grew up with--though not much
opera (Dad didn't get into it). In high school I listened to Christian
Contemporary Music. In college I was a metalhead and a Bon Jovi fan. I
am also a very big fan of U2 and REM. For a lot of years I listened to
"adult alternative" on 101.1 the River. But until recently (i.e. meeting
Chris and Tammie), I had very little knowledge or experience of country
music, though my dad did have a few Johnny Cash albums and some cowboy
music albums, and Ray and I used to have a couple of Merle Haggard,
Willie Nelson and Hank Williams CDs. This has changed now; the default
TV station at the Lake House is CMT. I've still never really been able
to appreciate rap. I can't make out the lyrics, usually, and when I can
I still can't understand them. I prefer that if music have words I be
able to sing along. Even if I don't understand the language; I can fake
it if the syllables are distinguishable.
1). Total volume of music files on my computer?: Nothing on this
one (at work). I have four or five songs on my (still not unpacked)
computer that people sent me because they wanted me to listen to them.
There's no rhyme or reason to the selections.
2). The last CD I bought was: the Love Actually
soundtrack, as a Valentine's Day present for Tammie
3a). The last song I listened to before writing this was: Cole
Porter's "It's All Right with Me", as sung by Harry Connick, Jr., on Red
104.1, which is a wonderful station. When I'm not listening to NPR (like
during pledge week) I go there first. Swing, big band, jazz and blues
and ohmygod so sexy! The song, however, didn't work for me in this
particular arrangement. I've never actually heard the song performed
before, but I have the sheet music for it and when I play it I always
interpret it as a slow seductive song. He sang it peppy and bouncy. It
was weird.
3b). Song playing right now: None, I'm at work
4). Five songs I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me:Hmmm. I
have some nostalgic and bittersweet associations with Eric Clapton's
"Wonderful Tonight" which used to be Our Song for Ray and me. It can
still reduce me to tears if I'm caught off guard or in a fragile
emotional state already (although the commercial seems to be breaking me
of that). Likewise Bad English's "When I See You Smile" which was mine
and Jim's song, long long ago. Deep Blue Something's "Breakfast at
Tiffany's" spoke strongly to me during the falling-apart stage of my
marriage, and Robynn Ragland's "People You Know" expressed many of my
feelings about Kirk and some of my other lost or distant friends.
There's nothing that comes to mind for this stage in my life.
5). Which 5 people are you passing this baton to?
harlequinade
devilmuse
neeuqdrazil
ohari
lavendargrrl
Ooh, new question. What music do you find the sexiest? There are certain
songs that light me up all over. Some singers' voices will do it no
matter what they're singing, too (Josh Groban *grins at Tammie* and
Norah Jones), some classical music is seductive (Ravel's Bolero, for
instance--it's something in the rhythm), but a couple specific songs
that I find particularly sexy are INXS's "You're One of My Kind", and
Melissa Etheridge's "I Wanna Come Over".
beckyzoole passed the baton to me.I'm a little conflicted about music, actually. Before I married Ray I
used to have music on constantly. When I was growing up the house was
almost always full of music. Dad had the stereo or the radio on all the
time. It was nearly always classical, but he was also fond of ethnic
music. We had numerous balalaika orchestra albums, a couple of National
Geographic albums "Songs of the Civil War" and "Music of Scotland" (I
can still sing most of the songs on these albums from memory), Peruvian
flute music, bagpipe marches, etc etc. And when Dad wasn't playing the
stereo Mom was often playing the piano.
But Ray always turned the music off for dinner, and gradually there was
less and less music playing around me. I've still not got back in the
habit of just turning it on for myself, but there is often music playing
at the Lake House now. It's just usually turned on by Tammie or less
often Chris. I do have two or three hundred CD's and cassettes, I just
don't play them often.
I love music, though, and I really want to go back to listening to it
more often. When the music is bouncy, I tend to dance and sing around
the house and it lifts my spirits to do that. Then there's sexy music,
of which more later.
I like most kinds of music. Classical I grew up with--though not much
opera (Dad didn't get into it). In high school I listened to Christian
Contemporary Music. In college I was a metalhead and a Bon Jovi fan. I
am also a very big fan of U2 and REM. For a lot of years I listened to
"adult alternative" on 101.1 the River. But until recently (i.e. meeting
Chris and Tammie), I had very little knowledge or experience of country
music, though my dad did have a few Johnny Cash albums and some cowboy
music albums, and Ray and I used to have a couple of Merle Haggard,
Willie Nelson and Hank Williams CDs. This has changed now; the default
TV station at the Lake House is CMT. I've still never really been able
to appreciate rap. I can't make out the lyrics, usually, and when I can
I still can't understand them. I prefer that if music have words I be
able to sing along. Even if I don't understand the language; I can fake
it if the syllables are distinguishable.
1). Total volume of music files on my computer?: Nothing on this
one (at work). I have four or five songs on my (still not unpacked)
computer that people sent me because they wanted me to listen to them.
There's no rhyme or reason to the selections.
2). The last CD I bought was: the Love Actually
soundtrack, as a Valentine's Day present for Tammie
3a). The last song I listened to before writing this was: Cole
Porter's "It's All Right with Me", as sung by Harry Connick, Jr., on Red
104.1, which is a wonderful station. When I'm not listening to NPR (like
during pledge week) I go there first. Swing, big band, jazz and blues
and ohmygod so sexy! The song, however, didn't work for me in this
particular arrangement. I've never actually heard the song performed
before, but I have the sheet music for it and when I play it I always
interpret it as a slow seductive song. He sang it peppy and bouncy. It
was weird.
3b). Song playing right now: None, I'm at work
4). Five songs I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me:Hmmm. I
have some nostalgic and bittersweet associations with Eric Clapton's
"Wonderful Tonight" which used to be Our Song for Ray and me. It can
still reduce me to tears if I'm caught off guard or in a fragile
emotional state already (although the commercial seems to be breaking me
of that). Likewise Bad English's "When I See You Smile" which was mine
and Jim's song, long long ago. Deep Blue Something's "Breakfast at
Tiffany's" spoke strongly to me during the falling-apart stage of my
marriage, and Robynn Ragland's "People You Know" expressed many of my
feelings about Kirk and some of my other lost or distant friends.
There's nothing that comes to mind for this stage in my life.
5). Which 5 people are you passing this baton to?
harlequinadedevilmuseneeuqdraziloharilavendargrrlOoh, new question. What music do you find the sexiest? There are certain
songs that light me up all over. Some singers' voices will do it no
matter what they're singing, too (Josh Groban *grins at Tammie* and
Norah Jones), some classical music is seductive (Ravel's Bolero, for
instance--it's something in the rhythm), but a couple specific songs
that I find particularly sexy are INXS's "You're One of My Kind", and
Melissa Etheridge's "I Wanna Come Over".
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2005-04-15 01:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-15 01:39 pm (UTC)The one song that I can think of off the top of my head is Melissa Ferrick's Drive (yousendit link in case you don't know the song). That sound just gets me every time I hear it. The other one that I find sexy strangely is Ani DiFranco's "Both Hands".
no subject
Date: 2005-04-16 08:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-17 08:33 am (UTC)Off to bed. Hope you had a good... nap.