Musically inclined
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itsallovernowNPR has been running a series on Female Record Producers which has been incredibly cool and informative. So inspired by that, by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
infinitemonkeys request last week and bycrankygrrl's shout out for reccs, here's more about music in my life.
However, I'm also looking for requests. What do people think are the essentials of the musical world? Bands, songs, genres that everyone should be familiar with?
I also want to make a Music of the Revolution CD. I have a few songs picked out, but I need further suggestions.
Woodstock - Joni Mitchell
Thousands Are Sailing - The Pogues
Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six - The Pogues
James Connelly - Black 47
Masters of War - Bob Dylan
A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall - Bob Dylan
Revolution - The Beatles
Pride/In the Name of Love - U2
These are a little pedestrian, and are calling for me to broaden my horizons.
Most music that I hold to be essential is so much a part of my background that I don't remember the first time I heard it. Neil Young, The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, I grew up with these artists in my head because my dad was a musician and there was always music playing. He loved music, and had these pressed wood cubes that were painted a bright red. They held all of his albums, and in addition to being familiar with the music, I was very entranced by the albums themselves.
I was particularly addicted to Sticky Fingers, which I'm sure shaped a lot of my future behaviors:) The actual album cover had a zipper that slid up and down, revealing white bvd's, assumably Mick Jagger's brief covered, um, ass?
My father expected that I would be as familiar with the content as the packaging, and from a very young age, would test me. On the cover of one Beatles album, they were surrounding a suitcase, and even though I didn't know their names at the time, I knew who was where on the cover. When the songs played, dad would ask who was singing, and I had to tell him, based on their placement on the cover. It shaped our relationship, that's for sure. Now of course, I can't figure out which album it was.
I also had a see-through green version of Peter and the Wolf, narrated by David Bowie. I cried every time Sasha the duck was eaten, and in fact, couldn't listen to the oboe section at all in sympathy for Sasha. The irony that I later went on to play - very poorly - the oboe for about five years was not lost on anyone but me. I should have known them.
My father also had a musical version of War of the Worlds that fascinated and terrified me. It had been produced for the BBC, I think, in the '70's and was a sort of rock opera. The cover had a booklet with drawings of the martians invading and melting the people, and the streets ran orange and red with melted flesh and blood, complete with crows picking up strings of flesh in their beaks. The martians made this OOOO LAAAA sound, and it completely terrified me. Literally gave me nightmares, and still makes my skin crawl when I hear it.
infinitemonkeys request last week and bycrankygrrl's shout out for reccs, here's more about music in my life.However, I'm also looking for requests. What do people think are the essentials of the musical world? Bands, songs, genres that everyone should be familiar with?
I also want to make a Music of the Revolution CD. I have a few songs picked out, but I need further suggestions.
Woodstock - Joni Mitchell
Thousands Are Sailing - The Pogues
Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six - The Pogues
James Connelly - Black 47
Masters of War - Bob Dylan
A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall - Bob Dylan
Revolution - The Beatles
Pride/In the Name of Love - U2
These are a little pedestrian, and are calling for me to broaden my horizons.
Most music that I hold to be essential is so much a part of my background that I don't remember the first time I heard it. Neil Young, The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, I grew up with these artists in my head because my dad was a musician and there was always music playing. He loved music, and had these pressed wood cubes that were painted a bright red. They held all of his albums, and in addition to being familiar with the music, I was very entranced by the albums themselves.
I was particularly addicted to Sticky Fingers, which I'm sure shaped a lot of my future behaviors:) The actual album cover had a zipper that slid up and down, revealing white bvd's, assumably Mick Jagger's brief covered, um, ass?
My father expected that I would be as familiar with the content as the packaging, and from a very young age, would test me. On the cover of one Beatles album, they were surrounding a suitcase, and even though I didn't know their names at the time, I knew who was where on the cover. When the songs played, dad would ask who was singing, and I had to tell him, based on their placement on the cover. It shaped our relationship, that's for sure. Now of course, I can't figure out which album it was.
I also had a see-through green version of Peter and the Wolf, narrated by David Bowie. I cried every time Sasha the duck was eaten, and in fact, couldn't listen to the oboe section at all in sympathy for Sasha. The irony that I later went on to play - very poorly - the oboe for about five years was not lost on anyone but me. I should have known them.
My father also had a musical version of War of the Worlds that fascinated and terrified me. It had been produced for the BBC, I think, in the '70's and was a sort of rock opera. The cover had a booklet with drawings of the martians invading and melting the people, and the streets ran orange and red with melted flesh and blood, complete with crows picking up strings of flesh in their beaks. The martians made this OOOO LAAAA sound, and it completely terrified me. Literally gave me nightmares, and still makes my skin crawl when I hear it.
