h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I was very excited to learn that the June "Create" topic is musically themed.

I'm going to start a separate post for my musings on music, as they could go on for some time, and I hate to clutter my PS and make any potential visitors have to do lots of scrolling (one of my personal pet peeves).

*reads exicitedly*

I'd better update the roll of honour soon.

Z

I love music. Not ALL kinds of music, but lots of kinds.

Proto-punk. Punk. Post-punk. New Wave. No Wave. Psychedelic. Paisley Underground. Reggae. Ska. Garage Rock. Indie Rock. Power Pop. Country (not that pop-country crap, but the real thing). New Romantic. Krautrock. Synth-pop.

I loved music even as a child. I took lessons on piano, violin and harpsichord. I desperately wanted to play drums, but my parents nixed that idea fairly quickly.

I loved music so much growing up that when I was 15, I enrolled in a Continuing Education course at a local college, studying radio broadcasting. As soon as I turned 16, I got my Radiotelephone Operator's license from the FCC, and by the time I graduated high school, I'd already done enough on-air time and production work that I had completed the internship I was required to complete for my Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts.

I got my BFA in Radio, Television, and Film, with a focus on radio broadcasting. After graduation, I didn't pursue a career in radio, however, as most local stations were converting from analog to digital signals and I was lacking in training on digital equipment. With not-insignificant student loans, and with additional coursework being "audit only", returning to school for said training was not an option at that time.

Although I gave up my dream of working with music, I still love it, and it is still a big part of my life. My husband is a musician (he plays drums, and is currently an active member of three bands, in addition to occasional session performances). We do go to lots of rock shows, not just ones my husband is playing in. And we still collect records and CDs, with vinyl being the preferred format.

I have too many favorite bands and albums to list them all... but I'm wondering what to do with this journal. I can post some YouTube links to various favorites?

Yes, I'd love youtube links. I really enjoy listening, and seeing, other people's favourite music.

Thanks for taking part PC, I will look forward to you posting new things to entertain me!

OK, I may not limit myself to one or two links a day, though. I'm also going to include artist name and song title just so I don't duplicate... don't want to have to go back and check!

I also appreciate that some stuff I like might not be to everyone's tastes, but then if it was, it would defeat the purpose of this project. Also, I apologize to any of my subscribers who are also among my Facebook contacts for any videos which might be cross-posted or which you may have seen there previously.

Just one for this post... I'll post others after I've had time to wind down from work and see where my internal jukebox takes me.

Single Bullet Theory- Keep It Tight. Pure power pop goodness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6GlwoUR1e8

Ooooh, this could be interesting. I know you listen to a lot of stuff I've never heard of, so this should be good to follow!

I'm going to try to mix it up so not everything sounds alike, either.

For this morning, have a handful of my favorite cover versions. Spot the similarity... (and the funny thing is, I'm not really a fan of the original artist ).

Thirteenth Floor Elevators- (It's All Over Now) Baby Blue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kprm9aTi8BI

Siouxsie & the Banshees- This Wheel's On Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5iMaQfmXVQ

Mike Ness- Don't Think Twice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8brwKSg_JRQ

Ramones- My Back Pages
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP4S8-Ma9Tc

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds- Wanted Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZeaBwDmN2E

Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash- It Ain't Me, Babe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R2NrV4ve1o

PJ Harvey- Highway 61 Revisited
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPTTmsQSrFM

*plugs in speakers and turns up volume* and lines up Siouxsie to go first.


I guess I woke my neighbour this morning at 5am PC, cos I listened to the track in the OP

Idiot any coincidence that so many of Bob Dylan's are favourites as cover versions?

Grrr, "idiot" = "is it". Typing on my phone.

IMO he writes great songs, but is an utterly mediocre (if that) performer. Like many other singer-songwriters. Not that I don't understand why someone who writes good music might wish to (try) play one or more instruments, or sing, as well. Just that IMO some of them shouldn't.

Thanks for explaining the auto-complete... otherwise I'd have wondered why such an uncharacteristically strong reaction.

For my next trick, I will try to select some Loud As Hell stuff so Lanza can blow her speakers and really tick the neighbor(s) off.

and am laughing at the auto correct thing of KBs as well

Yes...if I meant it as it came out it would have been a slightly disproportionate response!

For which, my revenge would be to link to this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4ztfrr8fls

Which is guaranteed to annoy.

(And now I am inspired to include, toward the end of this month, a post filled with songs I loathe, just to make sure I'm not just annoying my subscribers )

That's *vicious*!

When I was in school, I tended bar for a living, and one of the customers used to sing that song over and over and over... and finally one day I snapped and had him bounced for a week.

At uni I roomed next to a woman who played the Whitney Houston sonthat is 60% on one note (... and eye eee eye wiiiil alwaaaaaaaayes love yooooooou ee ooooooo...) over and over again and I still twitch if I hear it now.

One very broad category of music we can add to my Loathe It list is anything where a female singer- regardless of talent- ululates a lot. The higher octave it's done in, the more I hate it.

So, how about some more covers? Hank Williams this time.

I actually own this album, "Thai Beat A Go-Go", with the following cover of Your Cheatin' Heart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSlfEJBIT8w

And here's Mike Ness (hint: I'm a big fan) doing You Win Again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1drqJLNoa8

Cowboy Junkies- I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J02ANHNgsyk

And, on the flip side, here's a country singer covering a rock ballad. And looking right sexy while doing it.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x92cl_dwight-yoakam-suspicious-minds_music