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Apr. 11th, 2013 11:23 amI watched the first two episodes of Once Upon a Time. It's pretty...crap. Does it ever get less one-dimensional mustache twirly, or is this just it?
Apr. 11th, 2013
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Apr. 11th, 2013 11:30 amIt is old home week on my iPod. I've been listening to stuff I haven't really listened to since high school.
Riverdance by Bill Whelan - I know, I know, Riverdance all became something of a joke, but the CD still holds up. I have to be all hipster about this album, too, and say I bought it back when it was a $17 import, before the show had come over here. (I bought it from Borders, too. All the money from my first job went to the music section in the Borders at the Atrium Mall. Before amazon, Borders was the only place with any decent selection, where you had even a hope of getting good classical or international music.)
When I listen to Celtic music now, I tend to listen to stuff that hues a little more closely to traditional--Lúnasa or Navan. Riverdance is definitely fusion with a pop sensibility, and consequently sounds very nineties. I would say Riverdance can be credited with bringing traditional Irish music into popularity, but Irish music never really went away in the US. But it certainly worked as a bridge for me to get into Celtic music. And I still like it.
Yes, I did see the show, but years later. And mostly what I remember is that the lead dancer fell over.
Ray of Light by Madonna - This is, by any objective measure, a terrible, terrible album. It's all crap techno. I can listen to it and think about how awful it is and yet still enjoy it. This came out when I was a Junior in high school, and there was a time where if you went into the hallway of my dorm, you'd hear either this album or the Titanic soundtrack coming out of every room.
I bought my copy bootleg in Turkey, I'm afraid to say. I did buy a legal copy later, though it was used, so no royalties to Madonna either way. But buying the Turkish version, I got a bonus European release only track.
I think if I listened to this for the first time now, I wouldn't get through the first track before turning it off. But back before Napster, I had much more of a tendency to doggedly listen through the whole album every time, instead of just picking my favorite tracks and skipping the others. I'd say it was a consequence of owning less music, but I had more than 200 CDs at the time. But it does mean, though I bought the album just for "Frozen," I kind of like the whole thing, through sheer repetition.
Riverdance by Bill Whelan - I know, I know, Riverdance all became something of a joke, but the CD still holds up. I have to be all hipster about this album, too, and say I bought it back when it was a $17 import, before the show had come over here. (I bought it from Borders, too. All the money from my first job went to the music section in the Borders at the Atrium Mall. Before amazon, Borders was the only place with any decent selection, where you had even a hope of getting good classical or international music.)
When I listen to Celtic music now, I tend to listen to stuff that hues a little more closely to traditional--Lúnasa or Navan. Riverdance is definitely fusion with a pop sensibility, and consequently sounds very nineties. I would say Riverdance can be credited with bringing traditional Irish music into popularity, but Irish music never really went away in the US. But it certainly worked as a bridge for me to get into Celtic music. And I still like it.
Yes, I did see the show, but years later. And mostly what I remember is that the lead dancer fell over.
Ray of Light by Madonna - This is, by any objective measure, a terrible, terrible album. It's all crap techno. I can listen to it and think about how awful it is and yet still enjoy it. This came out when I was a Junior in high school, and there was a time where if you went into the hallway of my dorm, you'd hear either this album or the Titanic soundtrack coming out of every room.
I bought my copy bootleg in Turkey, I'm afraid to say. I did buy a legal copy later, though it was used, so no royalties to Madonna either way. But buying the Turkish version, I got a bonus European release only track.
I think if I listened to this for the first time now, I wouldn't get through the first track before turning it off. But back before Napster, I had much more of a tendency to doggedly listen through the whole album every time, instead of just picking my favorite tracks and skipping the others. I'd say it was a consequence of owning less music, but I had more than 200 CDs at the time. But it does mean, though I bought the album just for "Frozen," I kind of like the whole thing, through sheer repetition.