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torquillI picked up some CDs for people at Rasputin, and found that they have a discount bin. This goes beyond the "used" shelves -- this is a neglected shelf sorted roughly by genre, with the "please take this off our hands" price of $3.95 apiece. I even had a coupon to get two of them free.
So I sorted through them. Lots of 98 Degrees and Backstreet Boys, lots of middling soundtracks, lots of singles. REM and Barenaked Ladies cropped up, alongside Madonna and the rare Aerosmith. Many things I'd never heard of. Typical bargain bin.
Given that I could get two free, I picked out a Depeche Mode single of dubious quality (their remixes aren't always inspired) and something I am wholly ashamed of. I mean, I can plead nostalgia and all that, say that I haven't heard it in ten years and I may listen to it once and then let it rot on the shelf, but it just comes down to a guilty pleasure. Why else would I get the soundtrack to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Movie?
It was free. I can defend my actions somewhat with that.
The other CD I bought for myself (it wasn't free) was respectable; I have A Momentary Lapse of Reason on vinyl, but never got around to picking it up on CD. I have The Division Bell as well, but I think Momentary was a better overall example of later Pink Floyd. It has more flow, more musicality than much of Division Bell, much as I love a couple of tracks on the younger album.
It's been a long time, I guess. The old flame of "One Slip" and the old friend of "Terminal Frost". "Yet Another Movie" and "Sorrow" probably tell me where I got the macabre streak... I listened to this album a lot when I was fourteen and fifteen, and it had a lot of impact on my formative years. I certainly had more of a depressive, morbid tendency back then, and the lyrics combined with a vivid imagination probably encouraged that.
I can't stand older Pink Floyd (I know a lot of people consider The Wall to be great music, but I am firmly convinced you have to be under the influence of something to enjoy it). From about the late 80's on, however, they've put out stuff I like listening to, for the most part. And I will always be in their debt for making that video of "High Hopes" for MTV... one of these days I'll discover how to get a copy of that so I can watch it again.
Mmmm. Music. It makes my world go 'round -- at least, makes it go 'round a little more smoothly.
So I sorted through them. Lots of 98 Degrees and Backstreet Boys, lots of middling soundtracks, lots of singles. REM and Barenaked Ladies cropped up, alongside Madonna and the rare Aerosmith. Many things I'd never heard of. Typical bargain bin.
Given that I could get two free, I picked out a Depeche Mode single of dubious quality (their remixes aren't always inspired) and something I am wholly ashamed of. I mean, I can plead nostalgia and all that, say that I haven't heard it in ten years and I may listen to it once and then let it rot on the shelf, but it just comes down to a guilty pleasure. Why else would I get the soundtrack to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Movie?
It was free. I can defend my actions somewhat with that.
The other CD I bought for myself (it wasn't free) was respectable; I have A Momentary Lapse of Reason on vinyl, but never got around to picking it up on CD. I have The Division Bell as well, but I think Momentary was a better overall example of later Pink Floyd. It has more flow, more musicality than much of Division Bell, much as I love a couple of tracks on the younger album.
It's been a long time, I guess. The old flame of "One Slip" and the old friend of "Terminal Frost". "Yet Another Movie" and "Sorrow" probably tell me where I got the macabre streak... I listened to this album a lot when I was fourteen and fifteen, and it had a lot of impact on my formative years. I certainly had more of a depressive, morbid tendency back then, and the lyrics combined with a vivid imagination probably encouraged that.
I can't stand older Pink Floyd (I know a lot of people consider The Wall to be great music, but I am firmly convinced you have to be under the influence of something to enjoy it). From about the late 80's on, however, they've put out stuff I like listening to, for the most part. And I will always be in their debt for making that video of "High Hopes" for MTV... one of these days I'll discover how to get a copy of that so I can watch it again.
Mmmm. Music. It makes my world go 'round -- at least, makes it go 'round a little more smoothly.
