This new record by (former?) Backstreet Boy Nick Carter is fun to listen to. Lots of different styles, and he sounds happy. I like it!
Thursday, October 24, 2002
Music Orgy Today!!!
Dang, I don't remember when I've listened to so much different stuff in one day. Here's what I can remember playing today (and I think there may have been even more):
John Michael Montgomery, Greatest Hits
NSYNC, It's Gonna Be Me expanded single (the two previous ones just arrived from Second Spin today)
Indigo Girls, Become You
Ben Kweller, Sha Sha
Angel Boy, my country music mix
Enrique Iglesias, Escape
The Run Smooth soundtrack (another mix I made)
Pop Muzik (my mix)
World in my head: Mbube (also mine)
NSYNC's European debut album (like, twice or three times maybe)
More music! Bring it on!!!
Sunday, October 20, 2002
Saturday night we went to see Queen: Heaven at the Planetarium here in Munich. It was a kind of multimedia show featuring Queen's music, lots of video footage, and the lasers and lights of the Planetarium.
The songs they used spanned the entire Queen oeuvre, which I appreciated, from earliest to latest, from cheesiest to most sublime. (Cheesiest: "Flash Gordon." Most sublime: "A Winter's Tale.") It makes me want to pull out my Queen CDs and play them all. Not that I have that many, just three or so, I think.
I love Freddie Mercury. I always loved him, and I still do. He is one of the first rock stars I ever remember noticing for myself, when we lived in England in the 1970s and I saw him on Top of the Pops. I cried when he died.
But last night it was fun to see some of the performance footage blown up huge against the ceiling of the Planetarium. And they also incorporated some Queen videos, including "I Want to Break Free," which absolutely must be the best video they ever made. And I can't see that video without thinking of Maria, because she loves it too.
So now I wanna listen to Queen...
Thursday, October 17, 2002
I bought some new CDs today for the first time since I left America. That's a long time for me!
Here's what I got, at Müller (the location on Tal) in München:
L-O-V-E: The Essential Al Green
Elvis Presley, 30 Number 1 Hits
Peter Gabriel, Up
Take That's Greatest Hits
I was actually looking for the Elvis and the Peter Gabriel, and James Taylor's new one (which they didn't have in stock). The Al Green and Take That were unexpected finds.
The Elvis record is very good. It must have some songs that were number ones outside the USA on it, though, because there were a couple we'd never heard before. When "Wooden Heart" came on, Marty asked, "That song went to number one?" It sounded... German. It had a little German-sounding accordian. And sure enough, halfway though it Elvis started singing in German. Whoo!
I can't listen to "I Can't Help Falling In Love With You" anymore without thinking of Colm Meany in The Commitments. "Elvis wasn't a Cajun! That's fuckin' blasphemy!"
And let me just say. The lyrics to Jailhouse Rock? X-Rated. I'm serious, man. And they were worried about his hips?
Monday, October 14, 2002
Working on my first mix in, oh, forever. It's fun. Again. :-)
It's a country music mix. Not hardcore country (although I do like old-style country, very much) but country lite, mostly. It's a fun mix, though. Here's the playlist as it currently stands:
Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks Any Man of Mine - Shania Twain High Tech Redneck - George Jones Stand By Your Man - Lyle Lovett Is There Life Out There? - Reba McIntyre Standing Outside the Fire - Garth Brooks Wide Open Spaces - Dixie Chicks Life's a Dance - John Michael Montgomery This Kiss - Faith Hill Much Too Young (to Feel This Damn Old) - Garth Brooks Big Gay Heart - The Lemonheads God Must Have Spent a Little More Time On You - Alabama & NSYNC The River - Garth Brooks When You Say Nothing at All - Allison Krauss Chattahoochee - Alan Jackson Set This Circus Down - Tim McGraw I Swear - John Michael Montgomery We Shall Be Free - Garth Brooks Amazed - Lonestar She's In Love With the Boy - Trisha Yearwood Angel Boy - Tim McGraw
Yee-haw!
Wednesday, October 09, 2002
Today in the grocery store here in Munich I heard Lloyd Cole's "She's a Girl and I'm a Man." Dang. That was really, really cool.
I'm listening to a bunch of different stuff. I've been writing a lot and so I have mood music. Here's my current playlist:
