Sometimes I get frustrated when trying to buy music. My stomach tightens and I get beads of perspiration forming a film over my skin. There’s so much music and I don’t want to waste time with something rotten. I don’t want to get duped like I have in the past by a band that have had excessive radio airplay so that you’re slowly brainwashed into liking the tune. I’ve bought the album and after a month or so I don’t even remember which track I was supposed to have liked because it all sounds so banal. Perhaps my standards are too high? I want that feeling I got first time I heard Ride of the Valkyries. Elation, power, joy, discovery. I want these things from the next song I listen to but instead I get Dizzee Rascal. I want genius, not saleability! I want to be stunned, overwhelmed by the quality of the music and the virtuosity of the musicians. It’s that important. I don’t have infinite means or infinite time so I want to miss out on what’s not had infinite care taken over it.
So I spent hours searching for something new and wonderful. Now when I say ‘new’ I mean new to me. It doesn’t have to be in the charts, in fact; in all honesty I’m unlikely to find what I’m looking for in the top forty. I used Lastfm and the Genius function on iTunes and this is what we came up with.
Caravan: For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night. I’m delighted.
More tomorrow...
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