Talk about the times when albums you'd been underwhelmed by got lifted up by strange circumstances, temporarily revealed themselves as brilliant in a certain context, then retreated their initial status.
― Andy, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Thinking here of Spirtualized's
Let It Come Down, which I'd
liked neither before nor after the one time I listened to it on
headphones wandering around a floating museum aircraft-carrier museum
in New York, watching a comically boring tugboat competition play out
in the Hudson River. Something so thick about the
impotence/heartening-sadness of it all that made the album make more
sense than it had any business making. I've been bored by it in every
other instance, but oh that one time!
― Andy, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I keep fruitlessly looking for something as good as the title cut on
Gino Vanelli's 'Brother to Brother', but it hasn't revealed itself yet
― dave q, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
"Carry On, Wayward Son" by Kansas. One day at work, a friend and I
were talking about who the most whitebread band was. We were arguing
between REO Speedwagon, Styx, and Kansas (the three contenders we'd
narrowed it down to, although this was several years ago, pre-Limp
Bizkit). My vote was for Kansas.
That night, this girl I was interested in started cozying up to my
roommate. (Oversimplification, but like you need the details.) So I
drove out for like an hour towards the coast (leaving at around 2
am), listening to the mountain goats or something. Too tired to make
it, I pull off in a parking lot and look at what I can see of the
stars.
Head back, and eject the tape and put it on the rock station. That
instant, "Carry On, Wayward Son" comes on. I blasted it so loud I
thought my ears might bleed, and loved it, and that energy carried me
all the way home.
― doug, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
The night i shaved my ballsack while listening to Christopher Crosses
"sailing".
― skinflute, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
When I was in high school and the Spin Doctors album came out. Quite
possibly the greatest cd of my junior year. Immediately after high
school, i ran over the cd with my car.
― Chris, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
What's that retarded Daftpunk song about "We gonna celebrate... one
more time" with the vocoder? One night, stoned on a dancefloor...
during the long, mellow breakdown before the beat kicks back in.. all
the girls in their tube tops, belting out the lyrics with their hands
in the air... god, it all made so much sense. I don't hear it anymore.
― Andy, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)