From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #48 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, February 12 1998 Volume 04 : Number 048 Today's Subjects: ----------------- childhood music awareness [BarBearUh ] Re: work stack [Neal Copperman ] embarrassing/first cd's [meredith ] Re: embarrassing/first cd's ["Chris Beckwith" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 23:50:12 +0000 From: BarBearUh Subject: childhood music awareness hi folks. i just joined yesterday. i was just gonna lurk on this list, but the threads are kinda irresistible. i probably have tons of embarrassing LPs but i can't think of any CDs. i had my taste figured out by the time i started buying those and i get rid of the ones i don't like when it's a stab in the dark. since leo sayer came up, i'll admit something embarassing - leo was my first pop concert experience. i'll redeem myself by saying i don't really count it as such because i went with a friend's parents. once i was allowed to go alone, my first real concert experience was bob dylan. i do have 45s of michael murphy's "wildfire" and ?'s "kung fu fighting". but i also bought some stevie wonder singles around the same time. > who'd >you< grow up with, ie: when did you first notice music, > first really hear it, and who was in vogue then? i think i always noticed it. i remember getting in trouble when i was three for dancing in a restaurant to muzak and not stopping when i was repeatedly told to. my earliest memories of music outside of kid's stuff was from around 6 or 7 years old. i really liked claudine longet, simon & garfunkel and the mamas and papas (the latter two being the only hip music my parents owned). i also remember the 5th dimension's "up, up and away" pretty vividly, and the broadway LP of "hair". i of course had to have my manditory partridge family/donny osmond/jackson 5 stint, but by 5th grade was also listening to the beatles and elton john mostly. i remember hearing about the beatles breaking up while on my way to a girl scout meeting in uniform - very traumatic. i found my nitche when i started listening to bob dylan and joni mitchell when i was 12 or 13. when we took long drives to florida as a kid, my dad had country music on the whole ride (back when country music was worth listening to). my mother was and still is heavily into big band, and also listens to broadway music and pop vocal stuff. all day, every day, to this day, she listens to a big band station - it's an intrinsic part of the house, like the family room couch. currently at work: lots of instrumental/soundtracky stuff. kate bush, jane siberry, joni mitchell, bob dylan, dave matthews, radiohead, jellyfish, adrian belew, nusrat fateh ali khan, youssou n'dour, rickie lee jones, catie curtis, stravinsky, betty carter, ani difranco, oumou sangare, jeff buckley, salif keita, louis armstrong/ella fitzgerald, loreena mckennitt, katell keineg, beth orton, benny goodman, bruce cockburn, sarah mclachlan, nick cave, elvis costello, bryan ferry, david byrne. barbara ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 00:29:13 -0500 (EST) From: Neal Copperman Subject: Re: work stack On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Kelley Hays-Gilpin wrote: > As for embarrassing disks, how about that I own not one but TWO CDsof > Tuvan throat singing! Anthropological pretensions, I think, because > I don't actually listen to them for my own pleasure, but occasionally > force them on other people! I am an anthropologist, but not an > ethnomusicologist, and really have no clue about this genre. Yeah, well Ilike my Tuvan discs. Especially that song dedicated to Frank Zappa that's supposed to have about 90 verses (though only a few are included), about the camel driving merchant who goes away on business and his wife runs around on him. And my ex-girlfriend could never get enough of those killer reindeer imitations on the Smithsonian disc. (I made a tape for her when she got pregnant to go with her breathing excercises.) Woh woh woh woh, Neal ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 00:14:28 -0500 From: meredith Subject: embarrassing/first cd's Hi! This thread is indeed fun. :) I'm sure this will come as a surprise to no one, but I was most definitely a child of the 80's. I didn't really listen to music at all until I got a clock radio for my 10th birthday (I still have it, it still works :). Duran Duran, Culture Club, and Eurythmics were *it*, as far as I was concerned -- especially Culture Club. I wanted to be Boy George. I think my parents were really worried about me for a while in junior high. :) The other life-shaping musical force in my life was the Doctor Demento show. I thought of an even more embarrassing album from my youth -- though I don't know if it counts because it was a gift, I didn't buy it myself. Does anybody remember a *really* stupid tv show called The Greatest American Hero? It ran on ABC for a couple years around 1981 or so, and was about a guy who found a superhero costume dropped on him by aliens, which gave him super powers whenever he put it on. Anyway. The theme song was by a dude named Joey Scarbury, who probably never did anything else in his life. Well, folks, I had that album. In fact, of all my friends, all of whom *begged* Santa to give them the album for Christmas, I was the only one to get it, so for a while I was the hero of my circle of friends. :> I think it's still in a box at my parents' house somewhere. I had 45's, too. The first one I bought was Juice Newton's "Queen of Hearts", and soon after I bought Rick Springfield's "Jesse's Girl". On the topic of building things up in memory, last year I finally found a cheap copy of Wendy and Lisa's first album, the one with "Waterfall" on it. I brought it home and was disappointed to discover that the "Waterfall" song, which I'd *loved* when it first came out wasn't nearly as transcendent as I remembered, and in fact the rest of the album really rather sucked. And to get a bit more modern, today I had in my hands both of the soundtracks to Xena: Warrior Princess, but I knew woj would *never* let me into the house with them, so I refrained. I wouldn't have been embarrassed about that purchase, though! ;> I did pick up the new ones by Kristin Hersh and Victoria Williams. Haven't had a chance to listen closely yet to either. More to come later... +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | | *** TRAJECTORY: the Veda Hille mailing list *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 01:18:34 -0500 From: "Chris Beckwith" Subject: Re: embarrassing/first cd's meredith wrote: > On the topic of building things up in memory, last year I finally > found a cheap copy of Wendy and Lisa's first album, the one with > "Waterfall" on it. As a curious coincidence, yesterday the "M2 Hour" on MTV aired "Waterfall" as part of a theme of Prince-related product (Sheila E.'s "The Glamorous Life," The Bangles' "Manic Monday," etc.) W&L were by far the best of the bunch. Take care, Chris Embarrassing disc #1: The Belle Stars, s/t (with "Iko Iko" years before it was adopted by "Rainman"...but I really got it for "Sign of the Times":) ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #48 *************************