What’s your all-time favorite album?
For some reason, this past week, I’ve been re-watching the Gilmore Girls. Actually, I’m re-watching because I love that show. I love the storylines, the dialogue, and the wit. I love the mother-daughter dynamic. Makes me feel a bit nostalgic.
A major part of the nostalgia is the love of music threaded throughout the show. They had a song or album reference in every episode. In re-watching the show, I had to laugh at all the CDs and albums. How times have changed.
There was a time when we loved whole albums. We knew the names of albums. Appetite for Destruction. Nevermind. Rumours. Thriller. Purple Rain. And, on and on. Well, that is until streaming came along and we focused on singles versus whole albums. We used to understand how one song played off of another. Of course, now we create our own albums. Our mixes are us. We’ve taken someone else’s whole story, broken them up, and jigsawed our own.
Categories: Culture, identity, music, Pop Culture, Psychology, society
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Ah Yes Our Modern World
of More Than 3 Black And White
Channels of 6 o’clock News Albums
For Sale And Only A Few Radio Stations
on FM With AM Still Regularly Used Even
Listening to the Mexican Radio After Dark
Yet True Once Again
BefoRE All of That
And Every Choice
iMAGiNABle Now
To Forge Our Own New
Multi-Media Entertainment
Lives Behind Even 6 Inch Screams
of Depression Sadly And Loneliness More
Yes By God THere Used to Be Living Rooms
With Humans Truly Warmly In Touch Face to
Face CompoSinG Their Own Poetic Narratives
to Each Other Fresh and New With Humanity True…
Yet You See i’m Still Able to Do That With The Elder
Cashiers at the Check-Out Lines at Walmart Still the
Happiest Generation With Enough Focus to Do it in Their
70’s and
80’s Now
With the Other
Customers Wondering
Why the Elder Cashier
Always Hugs Both me and
my Wife Before We Leave Almost
Like We Are Really Human Family In Fact
We Have a Pulse and A Heart That Warms
And There Are Even Evenings at Whataburger
For a Quick Grilled Chicken Sandwich and Free Senior
Coffee Where We See The Same Stars in the Younger Cashier’s Eyes
A Cross of Stars And Roses Indeed The Fire of Human FLoWeRS Not Yet
Dead
True Beauty
of GRoWinG
Older Room
To Be Human Again
Dear Miriam With SMiLes..:)
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One wonders if we will ever see the likes of “Days of Future Past” or “The Wall” again
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The Beatles Sgt Peppers. None of us had ever heard anything like it before.
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Ah, yes! Amazing how an album can be so transformative for society
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Current favorites are the albums Cascade (Mark White and Steffi Barthel) have put up done with dual Chapman Sticks. I love ‘New Beginnings.’ Individual pieces are all over Youtube; here’s one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8VoKm3QNMw
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I would be hard-pressed to name a single favorite album, but I do still buy them, unlike many of my now-streaming contemporaries … A non-exhaustive list of candidates would include “Danger Days” by My Chemical Romance, “Hitch” by The Joy Formidable, “Fantasies” by Metric, “Stand Still Look Pretty” by The Wreckers, “White on Blonde” by Texas, “Hide and Seek” by The Birthday Massacre, and the “Brokedown Palace” soundtrack.
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