Soundtracks
One of these days I'm going to make a list of important albums. Not a "desert island disks" sort of list, because frankly that changes all the time. This would be a list of those albums which could form the soundtrack for the movie of my life. Or rather, they are the albums which did, for a time, form my soundtrack. Records that got played over and over and over. Albums that still have the power to take me straight back to another time, that make me remember old boyfriends or old apartments or evoke memories that would be completely lost without the music to jolt me. (I think once again of that scene in "High Fidelity" where John Cuzak's character is arranging his album collection autobiographically. I so got that).
Some of the soundtrack albums would be, but are not limited to, "Rumours" by Fleetwood Mac, "Blood on the Tracks" by Dylan, and the Dire Straits' "Making Movies". The Spouse gave me "Everybody is Doing it, So Why Can't We" by The Cranberries the Christmas I was great with Child and that disk still brings back all the early days of dancing with my baby.
I can't even start to tell you which album I love best. The safest, truest answer is: the one I'm listening to at the moment. But as much as that's true, there is something about U2's "The Joshua Tree" that gets me almost more than all the rest of them combined. It is objectively one of, if not the best U2 album. (Cases may be made for others, no question, but this isn't debate club). But beyond that, it came out at a poignant, important time in my life, a time full of love and betrayal,success and failure and every time I hear any song from that album it is again the summer of '87 and I feel it all so much that it can still ache. There is nothing like the power of a really good song.
Some of the soundtrack albums would be, but are not limited to, "Rumours" by Fleetwood Mac, "Blood on the Tracks" by Dylan, and the Dire Straits' "Making Movies". The Spouse gave me "Everybody is Doing it, So Why Can't We" by The Cranberries the Christmas I was great with Child and that disk still brings back all the early days of dancing with my baby.
I can't even start to tell you which album I love best. The safest, truest answer is: the one I'm listening to at the moment. But as much as that's true, there is something about U2's "The Joshua Tree" that gets me almost more than all the rest of them combined. It is objectively one of, if not the best U2 album. (Cases may be made for others, no question, but this isn't debate club). But beyond that, it came out at a poignant, important time in my life, a time full of love and betrayal,success and failure and every time I hear any song from that album it is again the summer of '87 and I feel it all so much that it can still ache. There is nothing like the power of a really good song.
Labels: The Child, The Spouse
cobbled together by Moi at 1:36 PM
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God save the Queen.
Yeah, but-- Oh, you said this was NOT debate club. Okay.
Besides, I'm doing my thesis on the subject for next semester and I don't want to give away too much. Because Sling cheats.
My family and I were just discussing the best album of all time (and by all time, I mean from about 1980 till now, as the majority of us weren't listening to more than Sunday School music prior to 1980). Joshua Tree received the most votes, no problem. Even those that voted for other albums had to give a respectful "Oh, yes, that is a great album" nod to Joshua Tree.
Thanks, Dana. I'll use that as antecdotal evidence in my thesis.
At Thanksgiving, a much-loved relative professed her extreme dislike of Bono several times.
Of course, I have canonized the man.
But I did not discuss the matter. I thought it better to let it go. No need for an argument about Bono on a holiday.
Not everyone has to like Bono. I guess.
I guess. Crazy.
That would be such a hard list to compile, but like you and JC's "High Fidelity" character, it would have to be arranged autobiographically. My list would have to start back in the late 60's, early 70's, and would include Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young; Loggins & Messina; Chicago; Elton John (before he got all big glasses, outrageous costumes, and gay, though that era would be included eventually too); The Carpenters, Frank Zappa....oh gosh, the list goes on. In fact, it probably would have to go back even further to Gary Puckett & The Union Gap's "Young Girl" (8th grade) which has special meaning to me. I feel a post coming on.
Golly. "Young Girl". Only played that about 412 times at a slumber party....
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