YAMM
Or Yet Another Music Meme.
I've been tagged for this Music Meme from Perverse Access Memory: Some similarities to an earlier music meme, but I'll do it anyway.
1. Total number of records I own on CD (or vinyl or cassette):
CDs: Long time since I counted them, so I have no idea, but in the high 000s
Vinyl: About 300, all in storage at my parent's place. There are an awful lot of classic albums I've still only got on LP.
2. Total volume of music files on my computer:
Very little
3. The last record I bought:
Van der Graaf Generator's reunion album: Present
4. The last record listened to / song playing now:
Last record listened to: Porcupine Tree's Deadwing. As I started to write this, Robert Plant and band were performing a song who's name I didn't catch on BBC2's Later with Jools Holland.
5. Five records that I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me (either singles or albums):
- Pink Floyd: "The Wall". First album I ever bought. Overlong, patchy, and self-indulgent in places, but still magnificent in others. And I got to see the whole thing performed live.
- Rainbow, "Down to Earth", or more significantly the song 'Eyes of he World'. This wasn't Rainbow's best album, with some cheesy pop singles and far too much mediocre filler, but that song is still a classic. And it was hearing that song on the radio that got me into Rock
- Blue Öyster Cult: "Some Enchanted Evening". Their 1977 live album, with the incredible version of 'Astronomy'. I got into this band through a friend at university, Mark Huggett. I remember being completely blown away the first time I heard that song.
- Twelfth Night, "Live at the Target". This was the debut album of the relatively short-lived 80s neo-prog band, who never achieved much commercial success, but were a big influence on bands like Marillion. Significant for me because I was in the audience the night they recorded it. I've since been to shows by UFO, Gillan, Thin Lizzy, Marillion and Uriah Heep that ended up on live albums.
- Mostly Autumn, "The Last Bright Light". First time for many years I've been really enthused by a new band, and this one's still my favourite album of theirs.
6. Finally, tag five people to do this meme:
Scott (again), Karen Cravens, Steve "Electric Nose" Jones, Martyn Read and Alan Monk. Not having a blog in no excuse, that's what the comments are for!
Posted by TimHall at May 21, 2005 12:52 AM | TrackBackMe me no meme! Me also find it difficult to condense a life of active dandruff dispersal into lists of five :-)
But some peripheral comments:
No Idea what I last bought, as I've not been CD shopping for a while - might have been Deadwing. I'm yet to get the VDGG release, but next time I'm in a shop I shall rectify that. Long time favourites, seen PH and/or band many times.
Albums I've repeat played a lot lately are Deadwing (because it's new) and Wish You Were Here, because Shine On You Crazy Diamond is one of the most beautiful pieces of all time, to my ears. Currently listening to Steve Hillage's Live Herald.
Over the years, most of my favourite albums of the time have been live ones. From established classics of the Made In Japan/Strangers In The Night/Live and Dangerous pedigree, through to modern examples such as PT's Coma Divine. I have no pet theory as to why this is, it just happened that way.
I don't have much music on my PC at any given time, as I think mp3s, etc, sound naff. Just enough for late night listening when unleashing the full majesty of the Big Boy's Toys hi-fi is considered bad form.
The CD's finished - time to go choose the next one...
(emailed from Scott)
That Rainbow song - does the chorus go like this?
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world
But the heart has its beaches, its homeland and thoughts of its own
Wake now discover that you are the song that the morning brings
But the heart has its seasons, its evenings and songs of its own
If so, it's a Grateful Dead tune... :) Amazing, too.
Posted by: Tim Hall on May 21, 2005 10:16 PM1. Total number of records I own on CD (or vinyl or cassette):
Probably around 300-400 - including ones i've lent to folk, forgotten who I lent them to, and then spend ages looking for!
2. Total volume of music files on my computer:
Only 1 track. I diched the rest trying to keep my now-struggling PC in the land of the living!
3. The last record I bought:
Kings of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood
4. The last record listened to / song playing now:
On the CD in the car on the way to work, U2 - How to dismantle an atomic bomb. (I think the song was 'Fast Cars', from the end of the album, "I know these fast cars.....won't do me no good.....")
5. Five records that I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me (either singles or albums):
Hey, no fair, asking 5 questions then having question 5 as five more questions...it's a bit like asking the genie for more wishes... ;-)
I like too much stuff and what I like varies wildly by what mood i'm in, i'll give it a go, but you would probably get a different answer tomorrow!
1. Faithless - Reverence - First band/group/whatever to make me take any music outside of the guitar-based genre's seriously.
2. Rush - Live in Rio - These guys just don't lose it do they.
3. Stereophonics - Just enough education to perform - Probably represents the middle-o-the-road musical tastes I naturally fall for.
4. erm
5. dunno
Erm and Dunno. Two brilliant bands :)
Posted by: Tim Hall on May 23, 2005 10:08 PMYep, two of my faves certainly. ;-)
Posted by: Martyn Read on May 24, 2005 10:30 AMIndeed. "Dyslexia For The People" is one of Michael Spite's finest moments.
I loved Dunno when he was in the "Spiders From Mars" but ;-)
Posted by: Steve Jones on May 24, 2005 11:58 AMLive at Whereveritwas. Classic album.