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pidunk 07:51 pm UTC 04/25/07 |
| In reply to: | re: Eclectic tastes (or I just like all sorts of crap...) - Jacqueline 01:55 pm UTC 04/25/07 |
> I think it's best to listen to all sorts of music and then > dig deep into an artist when they hit a chord with you. I > never did really get the "I'm your biggest fan" attitude. > Especially when it means excluding other music from your > life. I didn't either but as a teenager I found it irresistable to be die-hard fans (articles and photos on the walls, tee-shirts, etc) of both Elton John and Leon Russell. I was at the same time amassing a vinyl record collection that eventually grew, by the time I stopped, to 400 record albums by untold numbers of artists. > > For me, Steinman's music never gets old - both the music > and lyric really do it for me - and that's true of most of > his songs. Fully fresh, all of the time, and the layers keep peeling. Plus all the other stuff......but for a really long time I paid no attention to Jimmy's music at all, passively taking what came on whatever radio I happened to have been hearing at any given time, except for the 1983 argument with a DJ over TEOTH. I ripped through BOOH, bought another copy, ripped through that, and put it away. Then fast forward to 2004, an absolute span of twenty six years, then here I am. I went to a Meat Loaf show at Monmouth College in 1979, and though people did not expect him to be there, Jim performed onstage, then I saw the 1981 MTV videos from Bad For Good, and was not actively pursuing knowing anyone's music, including Jim's for a very long time. > > But some other artists I've been listening to a lot lately > are Jesse Malin (who writes great lyrics, has some good > melodies), Josh Ritter who is a GENIUS songwriter but he's > a bit mannered at times and Johnette Napolitano of > Concrete Blonde (new solo album and tour - she is a MUST > SEE live - check out her MySpace for dates). I'm still so out of it musically that it really makes me look like I've been hibernating. There isn't much time, and I don't have much money. I have my musical biases, though. > > Concrete Blonde is another longtime favorite group of > mine...they sadly never got it together and kept it > together very long. As an aside, Jim Mankey looks so much > like Steinman it's scary. (Please Susan, don't! LOL) Oh Jacqueline! You are so funny! I've already looked at all the photos of Sparks, because of Jim Cypherd's involvement with them and Todd Rundgren's involvement with them. Jim Cypherd and I were on one of our steady-dating periods when he went out that September cataramaning with Ron Mael, which made me bite my fingernails the whole time. I made him phone me when he got back ashore so I could stop reducing the sizes of my fingers, and he did. Then he later said he and Ron spent the better part of the night talking. Cypherd has a credit on one of Sparks' albums, and if you have a listen, you might be intrigued. > Also, I got a big laugh out of Johnette's last blog > because of her rant on Phil Spector: "I am beyond broken > by the Virginia Tech shootings. I've been screaming > anti-gun all my life: and I propose that Phil Spector > spend the rest of his miserable, crazy, woman-hating > gun-toting threatening > hostage-taking screwed up life in jail. Forever. Go to > jail forever, Phil, I hope you rot." I said to Jim Cypherd, during another one of our daily contact periods long before this came up, that "I thought it was sick what he did to Ronnie" Cypherd in trying to defend the favored icon said, "Well, it's all about control" and I said, "Well, there's control, and there's CONTROL!" He was not comfortable with the topic, and we let it drop. I'd like the rights to go on tbe side of the rights, and the wrongs to go on the wrongs, please. And some french fries with that and a coke. A big nod to.................. xxx > Jacqueline > > > My friends often accuse me of having no taste in music > > becasue I like all sorts of singers and music. I was > > wondering if anyone else has ever said to you something > > like: > > > > "You can't like (so and so) if you like (insert name)" > > > > For instance a friend of mine was a huge Elvis Costello > > fan. I am a huge fan too. I then told this friend that I > > was a Billy Joel fan. He said that he couldn't understand > > how I could be both. > > > > OK. here's the question... Can you be a Jim Steinman fan > > and not be a........ fan? > > > > Or, is music just music. We can like what we like. But > > this attitude is no fun!!! | |
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