I love music. Not all music, tho'. I've tried to enjoy opera, but it only puts me to sleep. Nor am I fan of rap/hip hop/gangta whatever, but I'm not of that world, so it's not my music.One of my friends made a comment this week about country music. It's something people usually either love or hate (she hates it). I enjoy some of it, but it's rarely my first choice for listening pleasure. I did get "into" Toby Keith for a while, because his music was the sound track of a book I wrote, but that is a different place.
I got to thinking about my 10 favorite albums of all time, but then realized that I'd have to rank albums according to periods of my life, probably pre-and-post marriage.
In no particular order, my favorite albums are:
1. BLOOD ON THE TRACKS (Bob Dylan)
2. DESIRE (Bob Dylan)
3. HARVEST (Neil Young)
4. DIAMONDS & RUST (Joan Baez)
5. SO FAR (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
6. TRAVELING WILBURYS, VOLUME I
7. MASK & MIRROR (Loreena McKennitt)
8. YES, I AM (Melissa Etheridge)
9. MONSTER (Steppenwolf)
10.MODERN TIMES (Bob Dylan)
Gee, not one country album made my top ten.
But neither did a lot of my favorite performers of all time: The Moody Blues; Donovan; Melanie; Connie Dover; The Grateful Dead; Joni Mitchell, more Neil Young albums (Harvest Moon; After the Goldrush; Living with War), the Grass Roots.
I guess my musical tastes can't be pigeon-holed.
How about you? What music frees your spirit and what puts you to sleep?
3 comments:
I was getting nervous, Molly. That list was going on and on and there were no Grass Roots ... no Grass Roots ... no Grass Roots ...
Yes!! You saved the best for last!!
Let's see, my ten favorite albums would read something like:
Grass Roots - Anthology
Grass Roots - Live at Last
Jim Croce - Photographs and Memories
Loreena's Mask and Mirror
BareNaked Ladies - BareNaked for the Holidays
Stan Rogers, Northwest Passage also Stan, From Fresh Water
The Guess Who, Greatest Hits
And then a whole smattering of stuff from albums by Sugarland and Jimmy Buffett and Dolly Parton and Michael Peterson and Bachman Turner Overdrive and the Bay City Rollers and Bobby Sherman and Gordon Lightfoot and ...
I like my music ... uncomplicated. Clean. Something I can learn easily, join in, and sing along. Because to me, music isn't for listening. It's for particiapting.
I agree about the participation. Oh, and how could I have forgotten Gordo on my list? Which triggered memories of more faves: the McGarrigles; Kenny Rankin; Bruce Springsteen -- I'm primarily a folkie, with some rock tossed in.
Loreena McKennitt
Bob Dylan
Nick Drake
Any soundtrack known to man
Gordon Lightfoot
Drumroll....James Taylor
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