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snurri

15 Albums Meme

Feb 26, 2009 15:34

Jan and Haddayr tagged me, so you all get to suffer.

Think of 15 albums that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life or the way you looked at it. These are the albums that no matter what they were thought of musically shaped your world. Get the idea now? Good.

1. The Mary Poppins Soundtrack, Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, et. al ( Read more... )

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Comments 8

jamiam March 1 2009, 23:09:28 UTC

Aw, I still love that Old 97's album.

snurri March 2 2009, 03:41:32 UTC

Me too! The last sentence is just meant to indicate that I hadn't yet learned to love country without irony.

barbmg March 2 2009, 01:53:10 UTC

Yay Barry Manilow! My mom had the double live album, which I loved. He and his background singers always seemed to be having such a good time. The man can put on a show.

I too am a sucker for a brass section (but don't like particularly care for saxophone by itself.) Boston had a great ska scene in the early nineties and I get exhausted just thinking how many hours I spent dancing at shows.

Different album, but to me the New Pornographers song Letter From an Occupant is pure kick-ass pop perfection.

snurri March 2 2009, 03:46:19 UTC

Whatever else Manilow is/was, he writes his own songs and he's a hard-working performer. Also I believe that he can chip ice with his current nose.

I was listening to some Coltrane recently and thinking that it's really the saxophone's similarity to the human voice that made all those lazy '80s producers exploit it the way they did, and how it's actually much better when it's not used to stand in for vocals at all.

I love that New Pornographers song, too. I can't ever pick a favorite from them because it's usually the last one I heard. Although I suspect it's either "All For Swinging You Around" or "Miss Teen Wordpower." Or maybe "Myriad Harbour." AH I CAN'T DECIDE.

haddayr March 2 2009, 04:40:38 UTC

Now I just need to find something classical that you think is cool like Johnny Cash.

snurri March 2 2009, 23:45:27 UTC

Well, I don't make statements like that one anymore. And I think some classical is OK, I just haven't ever gone crazy for any of it.

janradder March 2 2009, 20:39:04 UTC

I always wanted to send away for one of those K-Tel records but never did because my mom wouldn't pay for it and I didn't have the money myself. I was sure that, along with learning how to disco, it would be my ticket to popularity if I just knew all those songs by heart and listened to them every day.

snurri March 2 2009, 23:46:22 UTC

That's exactly what happened!