"Good taste for a young girl"
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j4Or so the nice man told me when I bought a stack of his records:
Julie Felix, "Going to the Zoo" and "The World Goes Round and Round"
Joan Baez, "Hits/Greatest and others"
Fairport Convention, "Nine"
Muddy Waters, "Hoochie Coochie Man"
Cannonball Adderley &c, "The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York"
Count Basie, "Basie's Beatle Bag"
Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn, "Swing Masters Cottontail"
Leadbelly, "The Saga of Leadbelly"
I guess I'm flattered to be told I have good taste, but it does strike me as rather silly to say that somebody has good taste for their age. How old do you have to be before you can think "I like this music"? Yes, yes, I know you have to be at least 40 to understand jazz, but you can enjoy it at 4. (Though, obviously, at 4 you're not going to be going round to strange men's houses and buying their LPs.)
Maybe at some point I should write something about my evolving musical tastes. Perhaps choose an album for each year of my life, or something, though it'd be a bit contrived because I can't actually remember what I was listening to each year of my life. ... Or maybe I should examine the fluff in my navel some more first.
I need a music icon.
Julie Felix, "Going to the Zoo" and "The World Goes Round and Round"
Joan Baez, "Hits/Greatest and others"
Fairport Convention, "Nine"
Muddy Waters, "Hoochie Coochie Man"
Cannonball Adderley &c, "The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York"
Count Basie, "Basie's Beatle Bag"
Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn, "Swing Masters Cottontail"
Leadbelly, "The Saga of Leadbelly"
I guess I'm flattered to be told I have good taste, but it does strike me as rather silly to say that somebody has good taste for their age. How old do you have to be before you can think "I like this music"? Yes, yes, I know you have to be at least 40 to understand jazz, but you can enjoy it at 4. (Though, obviously, at 4 you're not going to be going round to strange men's houses and buying their LPs.)
Maybe at some point I should write something about my evolving musical tastes. Perhaps choose an album for each year of my life, or something, though it'd be a bit contrived because I can't actually remember what I was listening to each year of my life. ... Or maybe I should examine the fluff in my navel some more first.
I need a music icon.
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Date: 2004-09-11 02:16 pm (UTC)Is the Ellington/Strayhorn one piano duets, or the Ellington band?
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Date: 2004-09-11 02:52 pm (UTC)Definitely! Mind you, this wasn't even a proper record shop; this was by-appointment in some random Chemistry professor's living-room, as he was trying to make space by selling off the disposable section of his record collection (all 4 large boxes of it).
The Ellington/Strayhorn is piano duets. And it's amazing.
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Date: 2004-09-12 01:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-11 02:22 pm (UTC)"Basie's Beatle Bag" ? (Referred to Raised Eyebrows Department who will monitor for reviews of same). The rest sounds, well, in fraightfully good taste for anyone of any age. ;-)
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Date: 2004-09-11 02:56 pm (UTC)"Basie's Beatle Bag" ... well, some bits are better than others. Really I just wanted to add it to my collection of Beatles oddities. It's better than the Beatles Concerto, anyway.
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Date: 2004-09-11 03:09 pm (UTC)(wait, that sounds guilt-trippy, doesn't it? You're under no obligation to use it *g*)
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Date: 2004-09-12 04:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-13 07:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-13 08:50 am (UTC)Nahh.. I was up late anyway having a depressing conversation with someone, it was a pleasant distraction.
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Date: 2004-09-12 11:19 am (UTC)Will that do?
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Date: 2004-09-12 04:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-12 05:58 pm (UTC)Woo, a hjooge spider just ran across the floor...