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

Over the weekend I brought in the dozen or so boxes of my CD collection from the shed to the bedroom closet, after having cleared Mrs Gosho's old clothes from the floor and persuaded her to go through them and toss out anything she doesn't need or want - about 90% of them

So since she's out tonight I thought I'd have a quick riffle through them and play something as I haven't been able to get at them for more than 18 months. The first box I opened had 'In The Court of The Crimson King' (cardboard sleeve, 24 bit remaster ) in it

Where's me Gentle Giant, me Greenslade, me PFM, me Curved Air

Sometimes you scare, me, you know that?

Hey, I was there - I'm allowed

Gee, and I was going nuts because my CDs had been packed up for 6 weeks

Happy listening

I should get out my old Henry Purcell recordings (though not the Alfred Deller ones ).

I have some 33 1/3 RPM LP's from the 1950s: "I go Pogo," with one track sung by Walt Kelly himself. Also, the original version of "Songs by Tom Lehrer." And, the original cast recording of the musical "Little Abnere." Such treasures, eh?

My folks used to have a number of Tom Lehrer records when I was a kid, including "Songs by Tom Lehrer."

When I was sick in bed, Mom used to bring up the record player and I'd play all the records. We didn't have a TV, so it was our sole form of entertainment.

Some of Tom Lehrer's songs might have made you feel even *sicker* than you already were. Especially "I hold your hand in mine"
(Which is admittedly my favorite, but it is not for all tastes )

"Poinsoning Pigeons in the Park"

Tom is apparently still alive and kicking....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer
http://www.tomlehrer.org/#

There are some who regard Tom Lehrer as the 20th century's greatest songwriter, because the marriage of words to music is so perfect and so seamless. That would be quite a distinction if it were true....Tom himself might be too modest to claim such supremacy, though.

Going directly from adolescence to senility is something that I have attempted, too. At least Tom Lehrer and I have that much in common.

Vatican Rag. Say no more!

Gosho - some of those others mentioned I have never heard of. Woe is me! I thought I was reasonable well educated, musically speaking. Not that I can listen to anything right now...the dog has developed a taste for speaker cables and we have none in the house.

This means I can't listen to my Firesign Theatre CDs, or any of my Goon Show collection. And that's not good folks.

Radio 7 were broadcasting a Goon Show or two a week and then archiving them for six days for online listening - might be worth checking out the website

Hi, Gradient.

I can see that you have good taste.

I don't even make a pretense of being musically aware where nontheatrical pop music is concerned.

That said, I have no hesitation about going to movies that have rock music in the soundtracks. I have also been known to watch videos of rock concerts (Woodstock, Talking Heads, etc.). I just don't want to clutter up my house with recordings unless the music was written by people who've been at least hundred years.

Sorry, that last line should have read,


"" I just don't want to clutter up my house with recordings unless the music was written by people who've been *dead* at least a hundred years. "

Paul, the living anachronism.

That's a good criteria.

For a start it means never having to own anything by Cliff Richard. Ever.

Or the Rolling Stones, although if Keith Richards ever releases any solo material he might get in on a technicality (he looks like he's been dead for a century and, as we know from Wayne's World 2, he cannot be killed by conventional weapons).

Sorry...Keith's one of my Household Gods.

I enjoyed "Wayne's World 2."

I just don't get a lot of the allusions to celebrities unless they were solo artists like Elvis or Bob Dylan or Elton John, etc.

Anyway, I've realized that being dead for 100 years would be too extreme. It should be more like 30 years. Okay, so Jim Morison might sneak in under the fence on that one (if not now, then soon), but I can make peace with that. He is still revered as a poet.