02.21.03
Musical youth
I don’t know what’s happened to my taste in music.
This morning I packed three CDs for work-listening, Nick Drake, Norah Jones and Lemon Jelly. Only the latter could be seen as in any sense “groovy”, and none provide much evidence of my having my finger on the pulse.
Contrast my late teens and early twenties, when everything about my musical landscape could be triangulated from the first Stone Roses album, early Pixies and Lou Reed’s fabulous New York album. (Note that I’m taking this as a high-water mark: go further back and you will find a baroque mixture of naff and the unpleasantly unlistenable.)
Now, even my taste in garage would receive approval from polo-necked Guardianistas.
Disturbingly, this may be part of a larger pattern. The other day I expressed interest in a pair of courduroy jeans. My other half has started taking the mickey out of my taste in TV programmes, noting that all I watch are “Long Ago” documentaries.
Maybe I should kick out and spend a whole weekend listening to all those old Metallica and Mudhoney albums.
Maybe it’s too late. My current number one annoyance is that all of my Frank Sinatra CDs have been nicked…by my mum.
What has happened to my taste in music?
Blue Witch said,
February 21, 2003 at 9:28 pm
Nothing.
It’s a bit scary out and about in Blogland for those of us who prefer a different, era, isn’t it?
Steve said,
February 21, 2003 at 11:42 pm
I can’t decide how to answer this question Jon, serious or funny.
Just go with what you like - don’t try to conform to anyone else’s ideas of taste. Absorb bits and pieces here and there, take what you like from others, use it up, wear it out - ain’t nothing left in this whole world I care about…
I said 1, 2, 3, shake your body down.
Sorry, Odyssey moment there.
I’m currently getting back into Kate Bush at the moment, maybe looking for a copy of Ravel’s string quartet in F major, loving the soundtrack to ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ (The Ramones, Nico et al) and grooving to Lemon Jelly, Atomic Kitten and the Sugababes.
Eclectisize your life….
Jon said,
February 23, 2003 at 9:02 pm
I was reassured all the way up until Atomic Kitten there.
Does this mean I can dig out my old Betty Boo discs ?
Steve said,
February 24, 2003 at 9:34 am
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!
Doin’ the Do with Alsion Clarkson - ROCK ON!
Jon said,
February 24, 2003 at 12:01 pm
I remember her embarrassment when someone pointed out what “doin’ the do” means.
I preferred the second album, in fact, particularly the marvellous ‘Let me take you there’.
O God, I’m really making a rod for my own back here.
music posters said,
January 25, 2004 at 11:48 am
Yeah, I also used to feel like you. But, recently, I came to ignore to think how other people would feel on music that I love.