Are you a light sleeper? Do you have troubles falling asleep, or do you wake up often in the night? I've never really had any sleep problems - I can close my eyes just about anywhere and fall asleep, and when I do fall asleep I'm out for as long as is needed. I can nap or sleep through the night without any problems. I'm lucky that way.
My wife does not sleep through the night. Sh'es a very light sleeper who's awakened by any little noise (or my loud snoring) and has trouble getting back to sleep once awakened. She also cannot sleep anywhere, any time. In planes I can tilt my head back and be out instantly, but she can't sleep in planes. It's an interesting contrast.
I hope that y'all sleep well. I have no secrets about sleeping or what to do - just close your eyes and fall asleep. Why is that so hard? Again, I've never had a problem sleeping, so I don't know how to help if you have trouble.
Let's wake up to today's podcast - it's the perfect way to get going today (or be lazy and listen while in bed - either way works for me). Today we've got tunes from Johnny Cash, Natalie Merchant, Bobby Darin, Doug Sahm, Joe Cocker, the Lovin' Spoonful, the Vaughan Brothers, Matthew's Southern Comfort, Gram Parsons, Dwight Yoakam, Buck Owens, Captain Sensible, Mark Lanegan, and Massive Attack.
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I went to the Dentist last week for my normal cleaning, and the hygienist said. "Oh, dear" and told me I had an abscess on my gum. She then showed it to me with a mirror, as if I didn't trust her (I let her shove sharp metal objects and poke around in my mouth - if that isn't trust). After she finished the cleaning she took and x-ray and said that I would need a root canal. "Doesn't your tooth hurt, or are you in any pain?" she asked, but no, everything seemed fine in my mouth.
They made a quick appointment with the Endodontist and I went there for my root canal. She also seemed surprised that I was in no pain (what - was I making this up?), and checked my mouth before digging in. She was surprised that the tooth next to the one being worked on seemingly had problems as well ("you'll want to keep checking this one"). Now, the lore is that root canals are painful, but a google search says that "[w]hen people are told that they need a root canal treatment, they usually think about pain. However, the pain they feel is caused by an infection in the tooth, not by root canal treatment. ... The root canal procedure itself is painless." That certainly was the case with me. Having my mouth wide open for a long period was no fun, but it wasn't painful. There was no pain afterward, either. They said that with all of the "manipulation" in my mouth that the area might be tender, and that there may be pain, but everything has been fine. Either I have a high pain tolerance, or I missed out on the pain of a root canal. Good for me.
On today's podcast we'll ease the pain of this root canal with songs from the Beatles, Neneh Cherry, the Who, the Rolling Stones, Moby Grape, Echo & the Bunnymen, Suzanne Vega, Percy Mayfield, the Byrds, the Monkees, Led Zeppelin, Julian Cope, Muddy Waters, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, and Marvin Gaye.
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Looks like we're going to have a lot of snow this winter. Got nailed with over a foot last week, 5-8 inches today and a blizzard with now 14-20 inches predicted for tomorrow (and maybe more on Wednesday). Been awhile since we've been hit with this much snow (well, memory's not working great on this - last year was relatively snowless, anyway). I guess that I'm ready for another big winter- it's just snow, after all.
The problem is that I'm not sure how much longer the old body will be able to handle winter. I made the switch over to a snow blower a few years back, but there's still a pretty good amount of manual shoveling that needs to be done, and while I'm ok when doing the work, it's taking longer for my body to snap back afterwards. It's like I'm starting to feel older - anything but that! My back is getting creakier and creakier - I've managed to avoid what the surgeon said was inevitable when my disk slipped (he predicted that I'd slip my disk in my 40's) that I'd need surgery , but so far so good. Let's hope that my back can manage to hold out a few more years. Meanwhile, let it snow.
Let's snuggle up and listen to some music while we watch the storm outside (winter looks prettier with snow, don't you think?). Today's podcast has the New Pornographers, Darryl Hall & Sharon Jones, Al Green, Elton John, Lightships, the Church, Chuck Berry, Big Star, John Lennon, Traveling Wilburys, Suzanne Vega, Neko Case, and Rilo Kiley.
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This morning we're attending the funeral mass for my yia yia, Dee Angelpoulos. Dee was my sister-in-law's husband's mother, and as part of a very extended family I was adopted by this small Greek woman. She died at age 94.
For many years we lived near her, and would pick her up and drive her over to my sister-in-law's house. She'd get in the car and think it was very comfortable. "What kind of car is this, dear?," she'd ask, and I'd tell her "a Toyota Camry, just like the car you own." It happened every time. She made all of these wonderful Greek foods that we loved to eat - she was a great cook, just a very wonderful woman. And today we're paying tribute to her at he Greek church in Dover, NH.
Dee loved Greek music, but since I am lacking in that genre, we'll settle for my regular round up of music in this week's podcast, which includes Night Moves, O Positive, R.E.M., XTC, Bobby Blue Bland, LaVern Baker, Mick Softley, Link Wray, the Band, Steely Dan, Trafic, Rockpile, Stevie Wonder, Sam and Dave, Aretha Franklin, and Billy Paul.
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Tonight is Oscar night! Oscar night! Do you care, because I don't. I was never a big Oscar night fan anyway, but as the years go by I find I care less and less. In the last couple of years my wife and I have cut back on the movies that we go out to see, so we can't form an informed opinion on the nominations. We've seen two of the Best Picture nominees - Manchester by the Sea, which I loved but my wife did not love, and Arrival, which I hated and my wife liked.
We used to try to see all of the best picture nominees, spending a couple of weekends bingeing on films that we had missed, but we really don't go out to the movies that much. Hollywood has been ignoring our audience (not even sure I could tell you what my audience is, but it's not blockbusters and sequels and super heroes), so if we do see movies, we generally wait for them to watch on our big screen TV. It's not the same as going to the movies, but it's much more convenient.
I have a feeling that tonight some African-Americans will win, lessening the #Oscarsowhite, everyone can pat themselves on the back and continue to act in the same way they have for years and years. Does anyone think that a couple of wins will change anything?
Let's be less cynical and enjoy a bunch of music that was not in any movies. Let's listen to the Soundtrack of Our Lives, Sons & Daughters, Frank Black, Japandroids, the Saints, Soul II Soul, Emitt Rhodes, Mazzy Starr, Tift Merritt, Wilco, Jason & the Scorchers, the Byrds, Son Volt, and Uncle Tupelo.
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Yesterday was new car day for me. I'm not a great shopper for cars, as cars are a basic tool for me, and not the dream machine it is for some. I use Consumer Reports to help me decide which car I want. I wanted a mid-size car that gave me a good ride and decent gas mileage, which means it's basically down to these cars: a Toyota Camry, a Nissan Altima, a Honda Accord, and a Kia Optima. Consumer Reports put the Camry on top, so I started looking online for cars, and also used the Consumer Reports Build & Buy Car Buying Service, which put me in touch with 3 dealers "in the area."
So yesterday I went to my local Toyota dealer and found a car I liked, and I got a good deal on a new Camry - it's Predawn Gray Mica (well, it's silver). It will be fine transportation for me over the next few years. Dealerships are getting better at not being horrible when getting a deal - or maybe I'm just better at dealing than I used to be. I'm always ready to walk if I can't get my price, and it's believable (because true). That said, the people at the dealership were very nice.
As we cruise on down the road today, let's listen to an hour of Pop music in it's best form. We've got Dusty Springfield, the Ronettes, the Lemon Pipers, the Searchers, the Monkees, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, Lulu, Evie Sands, Jackie DeShannon, the dB's, Hoodoo Gurus, Marshall Crenshaw, the Romantics, Todd Rundgren, the Grass Roots, Matthew Sweet, and the Smithereens on tap this week. Happy listening!
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I've been quite lax about posting these Wednesday podcasts - this one's been done for awhile. I's just laziness on my part for not posting. I've been listening to even more jazz than usual this year - not sure why. Sometimes it becomes more difficult to put together my usual Sunday podcast because of it - how do I make John Zorn fit into my usual list of songs that I put on the podcast? I'm not sure that this will change soon - I like jazz a lot.
So here's a bunch of jazz that was mostly new to me at the beginning of the year, if not now. Let's listen to Clifford Jordan, Pat Metheny, Freddie Hubbard, Jimmy McGriff, Herbie Hancock, Pat Martino, Dave Douglas, Ryan Meagher, Conrad Hedwig & Igor Butman, and Joshua Redman & Brad Mehldau.
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Yes, it's that time of year when we end Standard Time and go into Daylight Savings Time. So it gets darker later - why do we care about that again? I'm not really sure that we ever got a good explanation for that. Farmers, maybe (they don't care: farmers do things based on crops or livestock, and cows don't have watches). I remember that during the energy crisis in the 1970's that we didn't switch back to "regular" standard time for a while, as somehow keeping sundown later in the day was supposed to save time, but I remember getting on the bus as a student in the dark.
Seems like it's mostly a habit now - one that my wife doesn't like because she loses an hour of sleep. I tell her to go to bed earlier or get up later. It's Sunday - who cares?I was just getting to the point where it was sun up by the time I get to work, and not sun down went I got home - now I'll show up in the (near) dark for a month or so. It's better than when I went to work in the dark and came home in the dark - winter's leaving, and the beginning of Daylight Savings Time is one of the signs of spring - the big storm heading our way Tuesday notwithstanding.
So let's celebrate losing an hour of sleep with Tinariwen, Delbert McClinton, the Waterboys, Procol Harum, the Pretty Things, Small Faces, Robyn Hitchcock, 801, Garland Jeffreys, Steely Dan, David Bowie, Sparks, Peter Gabriel, and the Beastie Boys.
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Man am I sick. I finally got the flu on Friday, and stayed home (mostly slept - no reading or watching movies for me). I felt a little better yesterday, but had a lousy night, barely sleeping, and am feeling worse this morning than I had on Friday - not a good sign. Get better soon, me.
Chuck Berry died yesterday - another shock, asked my wife? No, I said, he was very, very old. 90, my wife said. Yes, I said, sometimes guys are just very old. He was one of the pioneers of rock 'n' roll, and what is funny is that he was a contemporary of my parents - they were not alike at all. There'll be some Chuck played over the next few weeks, but more and more he has become forgotten by many. He is oldies - not sure where Billy Joel fits in with the oldies format.
Today we have little that represents Chuck Berry's rock 'n' roll on today's podcast. Still., there's great music from Lush, Joe Jackson, Style Council, Roxy Music, the Chambers Brothers, the Undisputed Truth, the O'Jays, Kadhja Bonet, Thundercat, Mr Twin Sister, Marianne Faithful, Thomas Dolby, and Badfinger.
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Chuck Berry died at the age of 90 on March 18. We've become used to the rock 'n' roll legends dying off, and I originally dismissed the death as someone who had lived a long life. But his legacy is such that I couldn't let hid death go by without commenting on how profound he was to the development of rock music. He epitomized the formation of rock back in the 1950's from its jazz and rhythm and blues beginnings, and made it a style unto itself.
Chuck played a great guitar (supposedly learning some of the important riffs from his piano player, Johnnie Johnson), was a fantastic singer and great lyricist (motorvatin"? wonderful).He learned how to command the stage and used the tricks of guitar solos, aping the duck walk and other solo stylings from T-Bone Walker and other jazz guitar players until he made it his distinctive style. That's what rock 'n' roll was - an amalgamation of different styles distilled into a simple, jumping style of play. And Chuck was the first master.
Many rock guitarists learned the great riffs of Chuck Berry before finding their own styles, especially Keith Richards. Although Chuck has finally passed on, his rock 'n roll leagcy will live on. I bumped another podcast to bring you this one, that looks back at Chuck Berry. So let's groove on and listen to Chuck Berry, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Dave Edmunds, Duane Allman, the Creation, the Pretty Things, Small Faces, the Who, Real Estate, DIIV, Beach House, Lower Dens, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Garland Jeffreys, Mink Deville, and Chuck Berry.
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The year: 1972. While last year I said that 1971 might have been the best year ever for music, I cannot say the same thing for 1972. Sure, there were some great songs and albums, but nothing along the lines of what we had in 1971.
In this podcast, I focus mainly on singles from 1972. I still listened mostly to AM radio and Casey Kasem's Top 40, so these songs became ingrained into my consciousness. You might be surprised at some of my choices as songs that I love, but even hearing these songs 45 years later, I love each and every one of them. There was a period when I probably would have had bad things to say about some of these songs, especially one written by Paul Williams, but he wrote some really good songs.
So let's take a listen to some of the best that 1972 had to offer, which includes Paul Simon, Three Dog Night, Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack, Elvis Presley, T. Rex, the Chi-Lites, Al Green, Curtis Mayfield, the O'Jay's, the Staple Singers, Joni Mitchell, Steely Dan, Nilsson, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, and Big Star.
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What an April Fool's joke! 12 inches of snow fell here, and that was after the amounts of snow were scaled back by the storm. Mother Nature has quite a sense of humor. I guess that we're in a pattern of odd weather again. We were quite a bit snowier this year than last, but the storms were spread a little farther away than in some years. I'm not sure that we'll see the amount of snow that we had in 1968-69 (I think that was the winter, and subsequent spring of flooding). I also remember that in 1982 we had a huge blizzard in April - a storm that was very sudden and big.
But let's not reminisce about the past, and dig out our present. I had to dig out early yesterday, as I needed gas for my snow blower. Fortunately I was able to clear my part of the driveway before it had run out of gas. I had hoped that the next time I got gas it would be for my mower and not blower. That funny old Mother Nature. So digging out this morning won't be too bad. Hope your April is starting out as well as mine is - got a busy day today, as Kate & I pushed everything we were going to do yesterday into today.
I'll need music to help me dig out, and have the following tunes for this week's podcast, a perfect companion for shoveling - or even relaxing. Let's hear some Big Mama Thornton, Talking Heads, Faces, Traffic, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, Concrete Blonde, the Go-Go's, the English Beat, Squeeze, Al Jarreau, Lou Rawls, and Mott the Hoople.
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So, earlier this week I was informed that due to the size of my website, I would be moved to another server. I did not know what that meant. Is there a charge for this? Do I have anything to worry about? I was told that I had unlimited space, so I was confused.
I received a second email that tried to clarify the first email - essentially I was not being charged, it's just that I need more room for my podcasts, so they were moving me. However, this could end up messing up my website and I should take precautions to make sure that if things got screwed up - it was all on me and not them. That was not encouraging at all. Then apparently they moved my site, but I guess nothing has happened - everything seems to be the same. We'll see.
Of course, I also changed the look to my site earlier in the week - should be unrelated, but who knows? I will hopefully switch up the pictures that headline the site - first up, Mr. Hummingbird. I know, you'll have to scroll down a little to find the new show.
On today's show we have the Breeders, Buddy Miles, the Soul Survivors, Archie Bell & the Drells, the Turtles, the Beginning of the End, Blur, Francois & the Atlas Mountains, the Spinners with Dionne Warwick, Alison Krauss, the Mavericks, Howard Tate, Don & Dewey, the Beatles, Clarence Carter, and Kate Bush.
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Back that stuff up! Hosting sites, even the best ones, will drop your site completely if they think that there's too much strain on their servers - sometimes without even telling you beforehand ... so, like I said: back that up with their tools, your tools, whatever you have available to you. I used to have my radio shows archived on my website, but they're saved on my HD only now.
Happy Easter, and Greek Easter - or Passover. The calendars all aligned up this year. Hope you have a great day. After all these years I still wonder what's so good about Good Friday - if anyone can explain that to my satisfaction I'd be grateful.
It really is becoming spring here - I'm sure most of us have been working in our yards, getting ready for the summer drought to kill our lawns and gardens (oh - so pessimistic). I always start with good intentions, but August is never good for rain up here in New Hampshire.
Still - it's an optimistic time of the year - let's go out and enjoy the weather. And we can help enjoy the weather with a great podcast that I've got lined up today, which includes Bruce Springsteen, Lee Fields, Tom Waits, Translator, the Three O'Clock, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Cass McCombs, Billy Bragg, Richard Thompson, George Harrison, Rilo Kiley, R.E.M., Ocean Colour Scene, the Youngbloods, and the Kinks.
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It's special Wednesday podcast. Today's pod is filled with music that I listen to a lot, but doesn't really fit in with what I usually put on a Sunday podcast. Maybe it's dissonance, or noise, or some quality that I really enjoy in music that others (especially my wife) doesn't. That's it - this is the "Not my wife's podcast."
As I said in the past, I don't have any real filters for music. I grew up with lots of older brothers and an older sister, and they listened to a variety of music, and some of that taste rubbed off on me. As a result, to me, if it sounds good, it is good (an Ellington paraphrase), no matter what the genre. I have big ears - they let in a lot of styles of music.
So today I'm going to play music that may not be what you want to hear. That's ok - skip it if you want to. But if you listen, you'll get more of a sense of who I am, and you may hear some great music that you might have dismissed for some reason.
Listen to Run the Jewels, A Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, Cake Like, Johnny Dowd, King Crimson, Captain Beefheart, Laurie Anderson, Frank Zappa, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, the Residents, Snakefinger, and the Rudy Schwartz Project.
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I'm 57 years old - is that old? I still don't feel old - I'm a little creakier than I was, but I don't feel old. Yesterday my knee started acting up - it's stiff and there's a dull pain in the old kneecap. It's probably nothing - it's happened before. Still, it's the first real sign that my body is getting old. Like most people, I won't do anything about the knee (other than anti-inflammatories) and let it get to me until I'll need it replaced. It's what I do - never mind, it'll be fine.
Let's not think of getting old - let's listen to music today (and dance!). Got some great tunes by Dee-Lite, Bootsy Collins, James Brown, the Mavericks, Samantha Fish, Lydia Loveless, Loretta Lynn, Aimee Mann, Wire, Husker Du, a Band of Bees, the Righteous Brothers, the Walker Brothers, Little Anthony & the Imperials, Smith, and the Association.
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If April showers bring May flowers (according to noted botanist Bugs Bunny), the May showers bring...disdain? Looks like we may escape the rain today, but it'll still be very wet - I still have a lot of yardwork to attend to, and may not get that much done today. Looks like rain for most of the days this week - I'll be at work, but still, it's been a rainy spring. We had tickets to a Red Sox game - rained out a couple of Tuesdays ago. The make up game is in July, which works well for us. Of course, in July I'll be bitching that we haven't had rain in weeks, and that my lawn is turning yellow. I'm saying that I can't be satisfied with this weather, or really any weather.
But I am satisfied with this week's podcast. Let's take a break and listen in to James Cotton, Coco Hames, the Smithereens, Lene Lovich, the Temptations, the Smiths, the New Pornographers, Rufus, Elton John, Texas, Tim Buckley, the Grateful Dead, Levon Helm, and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakrs.
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Is it Sunday morning? Then there will be trouble posting to Facebook. I'm not sure if they use Sunday morning for updates, backups, etc., but it's become hard for me to post to the site. I also can't really read the site - I only get the top 2 or 3 stories. How frustrating. Maybe I'll have to find a new time to post my podcast. Hmm...
On today's podcast, we look at songs both old and new. I hope you enjoy, with Garland Jeffreys, Leadbelly, B.B. King, Maria Muldaur, Otis Redding, Father John Misty, Slowdive, the Clovers, Wanda Jackson, Beck, Little Cub, Thomas Dolby, My Morning Jacket, and T. Rex.
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Well, it's supposed to be a mostly cloudy day today, but right now it's sunny - maybe the weather report will be wrong today, and we'll have a good day. I have lots of yard work that needs to get done, so I can use all of the sun I can get. The season is finally starting to change, although the early week looks like it'll be in the 50's. We need more 70's like today should be.
To get in the mood for work, I've put together a fun podcast that should get you working, with The Moody Blues, Renaissance, Jethro Tull, Genesis, Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Who, Samantha Fish, Otis Taylor, R.L. Burnside, Chris Whitley, Peter Case, and Nick Lowe.
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Wow, I've been doing this (making podcasts and bugging y'all about it) for three years - had no idea it would last this long, or that I would still be interested in putting together a playlist every week. I'd like to thank everyone who's been part of this, by making suggestions, liking, sharing, and listening to the podcasts. As I say, as long as you listen I'll keep putting these out.
Today I've put together a "greatest hits" program of songs that I love that have appeared on previous podcasts. There were too many for just an hour, so I had to make some strategic decisions, but who made it wee Camera Obscura, All We Are, Amy Winehouse, Ann Peebles, Aretha Franklin, Barrence Whitfield, the Zombies, the Undertones, Winter Hours, War On Drugs, Smith, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Peter Murphy.
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I like to listen every once-in-a-while, but I get the feeling that I still don't know that much more about the historical or current musical interests that you have because you never seem to be active anywhere else on the board. Just about everyone else here have close to a definitive leaning in their sound interests, but I can't place 'bremble" in any kind of a line of interest (other than, maybe, older classics).
I've been thinking of starting my own thread featuring some kind of collection of sound (the radio show ... or a possible future online broadcast ... or specially created downloadable playlists ... or a combo of all these, etc.), but haven't reached a level of certainty yet about doing this. Anyway, keep 'em coming...
My wife informs me that today will be Adventure Day. She wants to go out for breakfast and hit the shops in the Portsmouth area. She may be surprised to learn that shops may not open especially early in Portsmouth on a Sunday, but that's all part of the adventure. We'll probably go for a walk on the beach first. That actually sounds good. I like to walk. I'm sure that Kate will lose her desire to do much once the temperatures hit 90.Yes, it's a scorcher out there folks.
To help with the trip, I've put together a great podcast, with the dB's, (Sandy) Alex G, Marshall Crenshaw, Moby Grape, Amy Winehouse, the Ettes, Maria & Geoff Muldaur,Sparks,Grace Jones, Flash & the Pan, Public Image Limited, X, the Doors, and Cream. Let's tune in and escape the heat today, ok?
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Well, I guess, in a strange fashion, I suppose I have - and not just in light of his latest post, but also in the glow of the general non-committal responses (or would that be committed non-responses?) that illuminate the thread.
I'm not sure what you're looking for. I'm not the most aggressive poster around here, but I do post on occasion (recent posts about the new emusic and bargains at he new emu), but I'd like to think that my pods speak a bit to my listening habits. I do listen to much more jazz than gets played on the pod, and I'm a bit more adventurous in my tastes than what gets played on the pod (at least according to my wife, who doesn't like the "dissonant" music I play). With more time I'd post more, but we all have lives to live.
The posts here are copied from my (admitted non-committal) posts that are on the website and posted to Facebook, but I'm not sure that I have ever had a specific music philosophy that can be traced to anything. I like many types of music, and listen pretty indiscriminately to all sorts of music without judgement. I don't listen to current "top-40" or "popular" music, as an example, but won't dismiss it because I haven't listened to it (although I feel that it is probably a bit simplistic for my tastes. OTOH,I do like pop music from the 60's,probably because that was when I grew up- it might be as good/bad as current pop music, but i just haven't listened).
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I've been thinking of starting my own thread featuring some kind of collection of sound (the radio show ... or a possible future online broadcast ... or specially created downloadable playlists ... or a combo of all these, etc.), but haven't reached a level of certainty yet about doing this. Anyway, keep 'em coming...
The posts here are copied from my (admitted non-committal) posts that are on the website and posted to Facebook, but I'm not sure that I have ever had a specific music philosophy that can be traced to anything. I like many types of music, and listen pretty indiscriminately to all sorts of music without judgement. I don't listen to current "top-40" or "popular" music, as an example, but won't dismiss it because I haven't listened to it (although I feel that it is probably a bit simplistic for my tastes. OTOH,I do like pop music from the 60's,probably because that was when I grew up- it might be as good/bad as current pop music, but i just haven't listened).
Jeez, listen or don't - let's just enjoy music.