Brand! New! Music! Meme!
1. What was the first album you owned? Cassette: Asia, by Asia. Vinyl: Music from Purple Rain, by Prince & The Revolution. CD: Bitches Brew, by Miles Davis. Digital: Congotronics, by Konono No.1. I never had any 8-tracks.
2. What's your most soothing album? Apparently, Brian Eno's Music for Airports. We used it to put the baby--and ourselves--down to sleep last night (I would have said Enya, but I've had bad experiences with Enya. It's a long and sordid story. Anyway, I'd appreciate your suggestions for more baby sleepy goodness).
3. What album would you put on to get a honey's clothes right off? I happen to know, as a happily married bunny, that Al Green's Greatest Hits is the solid sender. But without Enigma's first album, I might have been a virgin throughout my entire 20s (note modifier).
4. What album would you pull out to impress a visiting music geek? I would go nuclear by putting on my re-creation of the rare-to-the-point-of-nonexistent No New York compilation using releases from its individual groups Mars, DNA, The Contortions, and Teenage Jesus & The Jerks (okay, I haven't ACtually done it. But I could. And I would RULE FOR ALL TIME IN THE MIGHTY GEEK TOWER!).
5. What old album have you recently discovered that you wish someone would have told you about in the first place? Nowhere by Ride. This is the ultimate shoegazer wall-of-sound psychedelic brain spatula right here. Additionally, it contains "Dreams Burn Down," the Song I Most Want to Hear on My Brother-in-law's Ridiculous Sound System).
6. What album do you own that just doesn't belong but that you can't ever get rid of for sentimental reasons? Never Enough by Melissa Etheridge (Shut UP).
7. What album did you buy that was such a bad idea you wanted to cut off the joint of a finger in recompense? Everywhere and Right Here by the Six Parts Seven (I bought it on the strength of one brief, gorgeous track--not included on the album--that led me to believe that the rest of their work wasn't the indie equivalent of Kenny G ear tapioca. WTF? Fastest used trade-in ever).
8. What album would you throw on to clear out an overlong party? Why, the perfectly titled Get Out, by Pita.
9. What album do you most covet that someone should send you if they ever find it because they're such a good person and they love you and want to go to Heaven? Running, Jumping, Standing Still by 'Spider' John Koerner (thank you in advance).
10. Finally--and thanks to my friend Dan--Beatles or Stones? Velvets. HA!
2. What's your most soothing album? Apparently, Brian Eno's Music for Airports. We used it to put the baby--and ourselves--down to sleep last night (I would have said Enya, but I've had bad experiences with Enya. It's a long and sordid story. Anyway, I'd appreciate your suggestions for more baby sleepy goodness).
3. What album would you put on to get a honey's clothes right off? I happen to know, as a happily married bunny, that Al Green's Greatest Hits is the solid sender. But without Enigma's first album, I might have been a virgin throughout my entire 20s (note modifier).
4. What album would you pull out to impress a visiting music geek? I would go nuclear by putting on my re-creation of the rare-to-the-point-of-nonexistent No New York compilation using releases from its individual groups Mars, DNA, The Contortions, and Teenage Jesus & The Jerks (okay, I haven't ACtually done it. But I could. And I would RULE FOR ALL TIME IN THE MIGHTY GEEK TOWER!).
5. What old album have you recently discovered that you wish someone would have told you about in the first place? Nowhere by Ride. This is the ultimate shoegazer wall-of-sound psychedelic brain spatula right here. Additionally, it contains "Dreams Burn Down," the Song I Most Want to Hear on My Brother-in-law's Ridiculous Sound System).
6. What album do you own that just doesn't belong but that you can't ever get rid of for sentimental reasons? Never Enough by Melissa Etheridge (Shut UP).
7. What album did you buy that was such a bad idea you wanted to cut off the joint of a finger in recompense? Everywhere and Right Here by the Six Parts Seven (I bought it on the strength of one brief, gorgeous track--not included on the album--that led me to believe that the rest of their work wasn't the indie equivalent of Kenny G ear tapioca. WTF? Fastest used trade-in ever).
8. What album would you throw on to clear out an overlong party? Why, the perfectly titled Get Out, by Pita.
9. What album do you most covet that someone should send you if they ever find it because they're such a good person and they love you and want to go to Heaven? Running, Jumping, Standing Still by 'Spider' John Koerner (thank you in advance).
10. Finally--and thanks to my friend Dan--Beatles or Stones? Velvets. HA!