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As I may have posted recently, I bought a few CDs from one of the local thrift stores. Some of it was Tchaikovsky, including violin concertos which makes me VERY happy. I also picked up a disc of Gershwin, a disc of J. S. Bach, and a disc of Vienna Waltzes.
I picked up a couple of discs from bands that seemed interesting looking at the artwork. I do that sometimes. I'm willing to listen to just about anything at least once and willing to take musical risks on really quirky or interesting looking stuff. So I did. The first disc was "The Quiet Table" by Three Fish, released by Epic in 1999. Can I just say that album title sounds like the name of a Doctor Who episode from the new series? Anyway... it was actually quite interesting. I'm not sure quite how to explain the sound except maybe Urge Overkill hooks up with Ravi Shankar and does an unplugged album, but that's not quite it. Close enough I guess. It was rather new-age-ish but enjoyable. It wasn't that sort of floofy, substance-lacking new age stuff you buy for ambiance music at the press-this-button-to-listen racks in a natural foods store but rather just some fairly interesting music. I don't know that I'm nearly eloquent enough to explain how I feel about it today except to say it was quirky and enjoyable and I'll probably have to listen to it again at least a couple more times. Hmmm... maybe in summary it's an acoustic grunge/new-age fusion?
The other interesting disc I picked up was "Out Of The Blue" by Desire, released independently in 1999. They're apparently a bar band from Barbados. The album was full of catchy songs that, with a bit more polishing, would have been very radio-friendly ten years ago when the album was released. Really the songs sounded much like anything that Third Eye Blind or Matchbox 20 or really any other similar band at the time might have released. It was nothing spectacular, and probably nothing that would see regular playback from my collection, but certainly not horrible or even bad. It is what it is: catchy nineties pop rock.
The third disc I listened to today was a classic that I had never heard but was thrilled to pick up for $1. It is Joni Mitchell's "Blue," released by Reprise in 1971. Until today I had only heard Joni Mitchell on rare occasion on the radio or television and hadn't paid much attention. I know. Shame on me! The album is wonderful. I truly enjoyed it and I'm very glad I bought it. Even if the other seven CDs had been crap it would have been worth the $8 in used CDs I bought that day just to get this one. I also had this realization as soon as "All I Want" started playing: Tori Amos sounds very much like Joni Mitchell.
I'm confident I'll thoroughly enjoy the rest of the purchases, but I will not listen to the violin concertos while I doze off or sleep. I made the mistake of listening to Russian violin concertos while sleeping one night in high school and woke up from very horrific, violent nightmares.
I picked up a couple of discs from bands that seemed interesting looking at the artwork. I do that sometimes. I'm willing to listen to just about anything at least once and willing to take musical risks on really quirky or interesting looking stuff. So I did. The first disc was "The Quiet Table" by Three Fish, released by Epic in 1999. Can I just say that album title sounds like the name of a Doctor Who episode from the new series? Anyway... it was actually quite interesting. I'm not sure quite how to explain the sound except maybe Urge Overkill hooks up with Ravi Shankar and does an unplugged album, but that's not quite it. Close enough I guess. It was rather new-age-ish but enjoyable. It wasn't that sort of floofy, substance-lacking new age stuff you buy for ambiance music at the press-this-button-to-listen racks in a natural foods store but rather just some fairly interesting music. I don't know that I'm nearly eloquent enough to explain how I feel about it today except to say it was quirky and enjoyable and I'll probably have to listen to it again at least a couple more times. Hmmm... maybe in summary it's an acoustic grunge/new-age fusion?
The other interesting disc I picked up was "Out Of The Blue" by Desire, released independently in 1999. They're apparently a bar band from Barbados. The album was full of catchy songs that, with a bit more polishing, would have been very radio-friendly ten years ago when the album was released. Really the songs sounded much like anything that Third Eye Blind or Matchbox 20 or really any other similar band at the time might have released. It was nothing spectacular, and probably nothing that would see regular playback from my collection, but certainly not horrible or even bad. It is what it is: catchy nineties pop rock.
The third disc I listened to today was a classic that I had never heard but was thrilled to pick up for $1. It is Joni Mitchell's "Blue," released by Reprise in 1971. Until today I had only heard Joni Mitchell on rare occasion on the radio or television and hadn't paid much attention. I know. Shame on me! The album is wonderful. I truly enjoyed it and I'm very glad I bought it. Even if the other seven CDs had been crap it would have been worth the $8 in used CDs I bought that day just to get this one. I also had this realization as soon as "All I Want" started playing: Tori Amos sounds very much like Joni Mitchell.
I'm confident I'll thoroughly enjoy the rest of the purchases, but I will not listen to the violin concertos while I doze off or sleep. I made the mistake of listening to Russian violin concertos while sleeping one night in high school and woke up from very horrific, violent nightmares.
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