The Many Musical Moods of Me
Recently, my friendly coworker (Ryan) asked me to name my top 5 albums...of course, being me, I refused to give him a straight answer, arguing that musical preference was too contextual to lend itself to static preference lists.He retorted that my answer was a cop-out (blasphemy!), and after a brief discussion I agreed to do my best at ordering which music I liked the most at this particular point in my life...I still couldn't resist putting things into contextual categories at the bottom, but I was surprised at how easy it was to look across genre and mood and pick which I thought was the "best!"
Small side-note: 4 of my top 5 albums were given to me by good friends rather than being chosen by my own idea of what i'd like...I should learn from this for the future!
Favorite Albums
#1) "Texas Flood," Stevie Ray Vaugn with Double Trouble
#2) "Live in Australia with the Melbourne International Orchestra," Elton John
#3) "Automatic for the people," R.E.M.
#4) Gypsy Kings (not sure albums, friends just gave me mp3s from various)
#5) Parachute (Guster)
(runner up: Ray Soundtrack)
Favorite Songs
#1) "Texas Flood" Stevie Ray Vaugn (Texas Flood)
#2) "Nightswimming" REM, (Best in Time)
#3) "A Mi Manera"/"Caminando Por la Calle" Gypsy Kings
#4) "The Greatest Discovery" Elton John (Live in Australia)
#5) "Parachute," Guster (Parachute)
(runners up: "Ice Cream Man," Tom Waits, (Closing Time) and "Maryland," Vonda Sheppard)
Songs to fit my moods:
Happy songs to wake up to in the morning:
1) "ABC," Jackson 5
2) "Hallelujah, I just love her so" (Ray Charles)
3) "My Girl," The Temptations
4) "Walking on Broken Glass," Annie Lenox
5) "King of Wishful Thinking" ("Pretty Woman" soundtrack, group: Go West))
Good summer songs, or car songs
1) "Hound Dog," Elvis (and 97.3 KBSG oldies radio!)
2) "Bubble Toes" Jack Johnson, live version (original from 'Brushfire Fairytales')
3) "Cheek to Cheek" Eva Cassidy (Live at Blues Alley)
4) "She said Yes" Chad Brock (Yes!)
5) "Come on Over" Christina Aguilera (Christina)
When I'm in the zone, doing artistic stuff/writing
1) "Nightswimming" REM (Automatic for the People)
2) "Maryland" Vonda Sheppard (Travel the World With Putumayo)
3) "The Four Seasons," Antonio Vivaldi (performed by the Cambridge Chamber Orchestra)
4) "Apple tree," Erykah Badu
5) "Let's call the whole thing off," Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald (Best of " ")
Sad/extremely chilled out
1) "Georgia on my Mind"/"Hard Times" Ray Charles, live version (Ray Soundtrack)
2) "Parachute" Guster (Parachute)
3) "Split Screen Sadness," John Mayer (Heavier Things)
4) "Jolene," Ray LaMontagne (Trouble)
5) "F-stop Blues," Jack Johnson, "Brushfire Fairytales)
6) "Blue Avenue," Elton John (Sleeping with the Past)
7) "Landslide," Fleetwood Mac
Manic music, to pump me up on the way to go "out"
1) "Hey Ya"/"Rosa Parks" Outkast (Speakerboxxx, The Love Below)
2) "Travelllin' South," Albert Collins (Big Blues Extravaganza, The Best of Austin City Limits)
3) "Lovers of Light," Afro-Celt Sound System (Volume 2)
4) "Ants Marching," Dave Matthews Band (Under the Table and Dreaming)
5) "Estoy Aqui," Shakira | posted by Cheryl, 2/01/2006 04:28:00 PM
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