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1. Total volume of music files on my computer?
Volume of music would be nearly 10 gigs on my D drive. A lot of that is due to my ripping the entire Steely Dan and XTC discography into my computer.
2. The last CD I bought was...
Nixing the Xmas presents would leave my purchase of Scissor Sisters' debut and No Doubt's Greatest Hits (the latter more for the sake of buying a CD I knew JD would appreciate).
3. Song playing right now:
None. I paused Nova (about the tsunami) on Tivo to check email...which snowballed into me posting.
4. Five songs I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me.
Disclaimer: While I can rattle off Top Five lists for numerous categories, like the guys in High Fidelity (Jack Black's best performance yet), just a Top Five Songs is unjust to the full range of songs I appreciate. Thus, I will focus on the songs that I think I have listened to the most in my life.
1) Barry Manilow - "Could It Be Magic"
My parents played Barry a lot in the 70's and I was always drawn to the epic progression of this song. It's beautiful - from the stabbing, yet delicate, intro of Chopin's Prelude in C Minor to the full orchestration, chorus, and swirling notes of the end...that fades back down to the piano and that last note that seems to ring into eternity. When I started playing my parents' music, his greatest hits and that song in particular got a lot of play. Even in high school, I loved that song. Seeing him perform my soph year in those close floor seats...I closed my eyes and sang along to "Could It Be Magic" (same as the thousands of 30-40 year old women also at the concert).
There's one particular memory I have of a night in college where I listened to that song over and over again. I ended up driving to a friend's house and sat in the car for 4-5 minutes because the song had started over just before I pulled in. When I went inside, they asked why I was in the car for so long. I got a lot of ribbing after telling them what the song was. I still will turn all the lights off (or nothing but candlelight) and listen to it.
2) Violent Femmes - "Blister in the Sun"
This song is often at the top of my list of most influential songs in my life. I had just stepped my toe into teen social life my soph year at Grissom. The transition from JROTC Pickle to Theatre Fag had just begun. I went to my first cast party that autumn and rode with one of the older girls to the party at the old Ghost Car Wash (about where I-565 is now at Rideout Road). On the way to and from the party, we listened to the Violent Femmes debut album. It was love at first listen. The door to college/modern rock swung open and I LOVED it. "Blister" has been used as a pep song for me through the years before performances, dates, exams, etc.
3) Wham! - "Careless Whisper"
There was no reason for me to love the song in 5th or 6th grade, but I did. Part of my weekend routine was Friday Night Videos and the like. "Careless Whisper" was the video I longed to see when it was released. Later, as a guy that spent the bulk of my single dating life as a "special friend," there were plenty of nights where I would wallow in unrequited love. Though this song doesn't necessarily address that, it was a fitting, moody song that would be played, rewound, and played again. I have sung this at the top of my lungs with tears in my eyes too, too, too many times.
4) The Pixies - "Here Comes Your Man"
This song benefits from being used as both a pep song and as a moping song. I really played this song to death at the end of high school and the first couple of years of college. My seeing The Pixies in Feb 1992 with Allison Seay and wanting to relive that weekend only escalated the number of turns that song took.
5) The Cure - "Excited Boy"
This gem is on the B-side of the Standing on a Beach cassette. Like "Blister" this song has served as a pep song for numerous years. It was my song of choice when I needed to shore up my confidence or to pick me up from a bad day.
5. Which 5 people are you passing this baton to & why?
I am probably most curious about the answers from...argh...choices, choices, choices:
outherelistenin - He doesn't write much about music. Sure Ani Difranco is in his Interests, but that coming from a gay man is about as stereotypical as Erasure or Depeche Mode. ;)
peteydaddy - Curious about his accumulation of songs from iTunes over the past couple of years.
deutschetexaner - Someone else that doesn't write about music much in his journal.
cyn_ful - Because we're getting reacquainted after 14 years apart and she posts a lot more than glitterlioness. ;)
allenb - He doesn't write much about music, but his "current music" is very much in the college rock/AAA vein to which I primarily listen.
auronsgirl1. Total volume of music files on my computer?
Volume of music would be nearly 10 gigs on my D drive. A lot of that is due to my ripping the entire Steely Dan and XTC discography into my computer.
2. The last CD I bought was...
Nixing the Xmas presents would leave my purchase of Scissor Sisters' debut and No Doubt's Greatest Hits (the latter more for the sake of buying a CD I knew JD would appreciate).
3. Song playing right now:
None. I paused Nova (about the tsunami) on Tivo to check email...which snowballed into me posting.
4. Five songs I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me.
Disclaimer: While I can rattle off Top Five lists for numerous categories, like the guys in High Fidelity (Jack Black's best performance yet), just a Top Five Songs is unjust to the full range of songs I appreciate. Thus, I will focus on the songs that I think I have listened to the most in my life.
1) Barry Manilow - "Could It Be Magic"
My parents played Barry a lot in the 70's and I was always drawn to the epic progression of this song. It's beautiful - from the stabbing, yet delicate, intro of Chopin's Prelude in C Minor to the full orchestration, chorus, and swirling notes of the end...that fades back down to the piano and that last note that seems to ring into eternity. When I started playing my parents' music, his greatest hits and that song in particular got a lot of play. Even in high school, I loved that song. Seeing him perform my soph year in those close floor seats...I closed my eyes and sang along to "Could It Be Magic" (same as the thousands of 30-40 year old women also at the concert).
There's one particular memory I have of a night in college where I listened to that song over and over again. I ended up driving to a friend's house and sat in the car for 4-5 minutes because the song had started over just before I pulled in. When I went inside, they asked why I was in the car for so long. I got a lot of ribbing after telling them what the song was. I still will turn all the lights off (or nothing but candlelight) and listen to it.
2) Violent Femmes - "Blister in the Sun"
This song is often at the top of my list of most influential songs in my life. I had just stepped my toe into teen social life my soph year at Grissom. The transition from JROTC Pickle to Theatre Fag had just begun. I went to my first cast party that autumn and rode with one of the older girls to the party at the old Ghost Car Wash (about where I-565 is now at Rideout Road). On the way to and from the party, we listened to the Violent Femmes debut album. It was love at first listen. The door to college/modern rock swung open and I LOVED it. "Blister" has been used as a pep song for me through the years before performances, dates, exams, etc.
3) Wham! - "Careless Whisper"
There was no reason for me to love the song in 5th or 6th grade, but I did. Part of my weekend routine was Friday Night Videos and the like. "Careless Whisper" was the video I longed to see when it was released. Later, as a guy that spent the bulk of my single dating life as a "special friend," there were plenty of nights where I would wallow in unrequited love. Though this song doesn't necessarily address that, it was a fitting, moody song that would be played, rewound, and played again. I have sung this at the top of my lungs with tears in my eyes too, too, too many times.
4) The Pixies - "Here Comes Your Man"
This song benefits from being used as both a pep song and as a moping song. I really played this song to death at the end of high school and the first couple of years of college. My seeing The Pixies in Feb 1992 with Allison Seay and wanting to relive that weekend only escalated the number of turns that song took.
5) The Cure - "Excited Boy"
This gem is on the B-side of the Standing on a Beach cassette. Like "Blister" this song has served as a pep song for numerous years. It was my song of choice when I needed to shore up my confidence or to pick me up from a bad day.
5. Which 5 people are you passing this baton to & why?
I am probably most curious about the answers from...argh...choices, choices, choices:
outherelistenin - He doesn't write much about music. Sure Ani Difranco is in his Interests, but that coming from a gay man is about as stereotypical as Erasure or Depeche Mode. ;)peteydaddy - Curious about his accumulation of songs from iTunes over the past couple of years.deutschetexaner - Someone else that doesn't write about music much in his journal.cyn_ful - Because we're getting reacquainted after 14 years apart and she posts a lot more than glitterlioness. ;)allenb - He doesn't write much about music, but his "current music" is very much in the college rock/AAA vein to which I primarily listen.
