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PRELUDIUM

Here's my audio realm. If yours is similar, we can exchange lists. Don't try to interest me in the Beach Boys or Prince, for it will not work.

Most people will be indifferent to the following lists. But then, they shouldn't be on this page anyway. Noticably missing in the below is much opera, country music, popular music, heavy metal. That's because i tend to not like them. Also missing is classical, which i need to listen to attentively to enjoy; i don't have time to listen terribly attentively at this point in life. Also missing is lots of the required "college music", rap, and misc other things; this is either becuase this music tends to suck or because nobody has ever given me a proper introduction to it. CDs are too expensive to buy at random, and the radio is evil. Finally, missing is many albums which i don't have at all even though i like them, or tapes which Liz has on the other side of the country at the moment. Did i spell preludium right?

LATEST LOVES

Kate Bush -- The Kick Inside
Jimi Hendrix -- Blues
Nirvana -- Unplugged in New York
Siouxsie & the Banshees -- Peepshow

BEST ALBUMS

Angelo Badalamenti -- Twin Peaks (soundtrack)
Cotton Club -- (Soundtrack) (one bad song: "Copper-Colored Gal")
David Byrne -- Rei Momo (except maybe a few at the end)
Dead Can Dance -- .....?
Dire Straits -- Brothers in Arms
Enya -- Watermark
Gerome Ragni, James Rado, Galt MacDermot -- Hair - The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording -- don't get the 70's movie soundtrack!!)
Jane's Addiction -- Nothing's Shocking
Jane's Addiction -- Ritual De Lo Habitual
Jimi Hendrix -- Blues
Kate Bush -- Hounds of Love / The Ninth Wave
Kate Bush -- Never for Ever
Kate Bush -- The Dreaming
Kate Bush -- The Kick Inside
Kate Bush -- .....?
Laurie Anderson -- .....?
Nirvana -- Nevermind
Nirvana -- Unplugged in New York
Peter Gabriel -- Security
Peter Gabriel -- So
Philip Glass -- Songs from Liquid Days (Lyrics by Paul Simon, Suzanne Vega, David Byrne, Laurie Anderson, Vocals by Bernard Fowler, Janice Pendarvis, Linda Rondstadt, The Roches, Douglas Perry, and Musicians including the Kronos String Quartet)
Pink Floyd -- The Final Cut
Pink Floyd -- Relics (?)
Pink Floyd -- Piper at the Gates of Dawn (?)
Pink Floyd -- Animals
Pink Floyd -- Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd -- Saucerful of Secrets (?)
Pink Floyd -- The Wall
Pink Floyd -- UmmaGumma (especially the live album )
Pink Floyd -- Wish You Were Here
Ravi Shankar & Philip Glass -- Passages
The Doors -- Best of
The Doors -- .....?
Roger Waters -- (some album that i dont' know the name of; early...way cool)
Red Hot Chili Peppers -- Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Residents -- The Third Reich'N'Roll
Simon & Garfunkel -- Greatest Hits (their only album i have right now...may change)
Sinéad O'Connor -- I do not want what I haven't got
Sinéad O'Connor -- am I not your girl?
Sinéad O'Connor -- The Lion and the Cobra
Sinéad O'Connor -- Universal Mother
Singing in an Open Space: Zulu Rhythm and Harmony, 1962-1982
Siouxsie & the Banshees -- Peepshow
Siouxsie & the Banshees -- .....?
Stay Awake (interpretations of Disney music by many artists)
Talking Heads -- Little Creatures
Talking Heads -- Stop Making Sense
Talking Heads -- Naked
Traffic -- The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
U2 -- The Joshua Tree
U2 -- The Unforgettable Fire
Who -- Tommy
Who -- Quadrophenia
Police -- Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings

Best Songs

Angelo Badalamenti (Vocals by Julee Cruise) -- "Twin Peaks Theme", "The Nightingale", "The Bookhouse Boys" , "Night Life in Twin Peaks", "Love Theme from Twin Peaks", "Laura Palmer's Theme", "Into the Night" , "Freshly Squeezed", "Falling", "Dance of the Dream Man", "Audrey's Dance"
Barde....
Ben E. King -- "Stand By Me"
Buddy Holly -- "Everyday"
Cameo -- "Word Up"
Clannad -- "Siúil a Rún", "Mo Mháire", "Lish Young Buy-a-Broom", "dTigeas a Damhsa", "An tÚll" , [much more]
Coasters -- "Yakety Yak"
Cotton Club -- (soundtrack) -- "The Mooche", "Minnie the Moocher", "Creole Love Call"
David Bowie -- "Ziggy Stardust", "Starman", "Five Years"
Dire Straits -- "The Man's Too Strong", "Ride Across The River", "Les Boys", "Brothers in Arms", ...
Doors -- "Wishful Sinful" , "When the Music's Over", "Waiting for the Sun" , "The Unknown Soldier", "The Soft Parade", "The End" , "The Crystal Ship" , "Strange Days", "Spanish Caravan", "Soul Kitchen", "Roadhouse Blues", "Riders on the Storm", "People are Strange", "Five to One", "End of the Night", "Break On Through", "Back Door Man"
Enya -- "Storms in Africa", "Storms in Africa II", "River", "Orinoco Flow", "Lothlórien", "Ebudæ", "Cursum Perficio"
Eurythmics -- "Sweet dreams", "Here comes the rain again"
Frank Zappa -- "The Deathless Horsie", "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow" (some live version), many others...
Ishoba Lembongolo -- "Icala Lakho Ndoda (It's Your Fault Gentlemen)"
Jane's Addiction -- "Up the Beach", "Three Days", "Then She Did" "Ted, Just Admit It", "Summertime Rolls", "Stop", "Jane Says"
Janis Joplin -- "Summertime"
Jethro Tull -- "Slipstream", "My God", "Mother Goose", "Cheap Day Return", "Aqualung"
Kansas -- "Dust in the Wind"
Kate Bush -- "Wuthering Heights" , "Watching You Without Me", "Waking the Witch", "Violin", "Under Ice" , "There Goes a Tenner", "Them Heavy People", "The Wedding List", "The Saxophone Song", "The Morning Fog", "The Man with the Child In His Eyes" , "The Kick Inside" , "The Infant Kiss" , "The Dreaming" , "Suspended in Gaffa" , "Strange Phenomena", "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)", "Room for the Life", "Pull Out the Pin", "Oh To Be In Love" , "Night Scented Stock", "Night of the Swallow" , "Moving" , "Mother Stands for Comfort" , "Leave it Open", "L'Amour Looks Something Like You", "Kite", "Jig of Life" , "Hounds of Love", "Houdini", "Hello Earth", "Get Out of My House" , "Feel It", "Egypt", "Delius (Song Of Summer)", "Cloudbusting", "Breathing", "Blow Away", "Army Dreamers" , "And Dream of Sheep", "All We Ever Look For", "All the Love", ...
Kingston Trio -- "Where have all the Flowers Gone", "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
Led Zeppelin -- "The Battle of Evermore", "Stairway to Heaven" , "No Quarter", "Going to California", ...
Lene Lovich (sp?) -- "The Freeze"
Madness -- "Our House"
Midnight Oil -- "Beds are Burning"
Music Man (musical by Meredith Willson) -- "Rock Island"
Nirvana -- "Where Did You Sleep Last Night", "The Man Who Sold The World", "Something In The Way" , "Smells Like Teen Spirit", "Serve The Servants", "Polly", "Plateau" , "On A Plain", "Oh Me", "Lounge Act", "Lithium", "Lake of Fire", "Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam", "In Bloom", "Heart-Shaped Box", "Dumb" , "Come As You Are", "All Apologies", "About A Girl", ...
Pentangle -- "Will the Circle be Unbroken", "Wedding Dress", "The Trees They Do Grow High", "Pentangling", "Lyke-Wake Dirge", "Let No Man Steal Your Thyme", "Hunting Song", "Cruel Sister", "Bruton Town", "A Maid That's Deep in Love"
Peter Gabriel -- "We Do What We're Told", "This is the Picture (excellent birds)" (with Laurie Anderson) , "The Rhythm of the Heat", "Sledgehammer", "Shock the Monkey" , "San Jacinto", "Red Rain", "Big Time",
Philip Glass et. al. (see album for more info) -- "Open the Kingdom", "Liquid Days", "Lightning", "Freezing", "Forgetting", "Changing Opinion"
Pink Floyd -- "Wish You Were Here", "Welcome To The Machine", "Us and Them", "Time" , "The Narrow Way", "The Great Gig In The Sky", "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party" , "Sysyphus", "Speak To Me", "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", "Sheep", "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict", "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun", "Pigs on the Wing", "Pigs (Three Different Ones)", "On the Run", "Money", "Have a Cigar", "Grantchester Meadows", "Eclipse" , "Dogs", "Careful with That Axe, Eugene", "Breathe In The Air", "Brain Damage", "Astronomy Domine", "Any Colour You Like", "A Saucerful of Secrets" (---> I. (?) II. Syncopated Pandemonium (?) III. Storm Warning (?) IV. Celestial Voices ), ...
Police -- "Wrapped Around Your Finger", "Walking on the Moon", "Walking In Your Footsteps", "Tea In The Sahara", "Synchronicity", "Synchronicity II", "Spirits in the Material World", "Roxanne", "Murder by Numbers" , "Mother", "Message in a Bottle", "King of Pain" , "Invisible Sun", "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da", "Canary in a Coalmine", "Can't Stand Losing You", "Bombs Away"
Queen -- "You're My Best Friend", "I'm in Love With My Car", "Bohemian Rhapsody", ...
Ravi Shankar & Philip Glass -- "Sadhanipa", "Ragas in Minor Scale", "Prashanti", "Offering", "Meetings along the Edge, "Channels and Winds"
Red Hot Chili Peppers -- "Under the Bridge", "They're Red Hot", "I Could Have Lied", "Give it Away", "Breaking the Girl",
Silhouettes -- "Get a Job"
Simon & Garfunkel -- "The Sound of Silence" , "The Boxer", "The 59'th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)", "So Long Frank Lloyd Wright", "Silent Night" , "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" , "Richard Cory", "Mrs. Robinson", "Kathy's Song", "I am a Rock", "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)", "Bridge Over Troubled Water", "Bookends", "A Most Peculiar Man", ...
Sinéad O'Connor -- "Why Don't You Do Right?", "Troy", "Tiny Grief Song", "Three Babies" , "Thank You for Hearing Me", "Red Football", "Never Get Old", "My Darling Child", "Just Like U said it would B", "Just Call Me Joe", "John I Love You", "Jerusalem", "Jackie" , "I Want to be Loved by You", "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got", "I Am Stretched On Your Grave", "Gloomy Sunday", "Fire On Babylon", "Feel So Different", "Famine", "Drink Before the War", "Don't Cry For Me Argentina", "Black Coffee", "Black Boys on Mopeds", "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered", "Am I Human?" (by her son) , "All Babies", "All Apologies"
Siouxsie & the Banshees --
Stay Awake: -- Yva Sumac: "I Wonder"; Tom Waits:"Heigh Ho (The Dwarfs Marching Song)" ; The Replacements: "Cruella DeVille"; Syd Straw: "Blue Shadows on the Trail"; Suzanne Vega: "Stay Awake"; Sun Ra and His Arkestra: "Pink Elephants on Parade"; Natilie Merchant, Mihcael Stipe, Mark Bingham, The Roches: "Little April Shower"; Los Lobos: "I Wan'na Be Like You (The Monkey Song)"; Ken Nordine, Bill Frisell, Wayne Horvitz: "Hi Diddle Dee Dee (An Actor's Life for Me)"; Ken Nordine, Bill Frisell, Wayne Horvitz: "Desolation Theme"; Buster Poindexter and The Banshees of Blue:"Castle in Spain"; Bonnie Raitt and Was (Not Was): "Baby Mine"; Bill Frisell and Wayne Horvitz: "Little Wooden Head"
Talking Heads -- "What a Day That Was", "Totally Nude", "The Facts of Life", "The Democratic Circus", "Take Me to the River", "Stay Up Late" , "Slippery People", "Sax and Violins", "Ruby Dear", "Road to Nowhere" , "Psycho Killer", "Once in a Lifetime", "Mr. Jones" , "Life During Wartime", "Creatures of Love", "Cool Water" , "Burning Down the House", "Blind", "Bill", "Big Daddy", "And She Was", "(Nothing but) Flowers"
Traffic -- "The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys", "Rainmaker", "Many a Mile to Freedom", "Light Up or Leave Me Alone", "Hidden Treasure"
Trio -- "Da da da" (English and German versions)
U2 -- "With or Without You", "Wire", "Where the Streets Have No Name", "Until the End of the World", "Trip Through Your Wires", "The Unforgettable Fire", "The Ocean", "Sunday Bloody Sunday" , "Seconds", "Running to Stand Still", "Red Hill Mining Town", "Promenade", "Pride", "One", "One Tree Hill", "New Years Day" , "Mothers of the Disappeared", "MLK" , "Love is Blindness", "Like a Song...", "In God's Country", "I Will Follow", "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", "Exit", "Everlasting Love" (?) , "Bullet the Blue Sky", "Bad" , "Acrobat", "A Sort of Homecoming", "A Day Without Me", "4th of July", ...
The Who -- "We're Not Gonna Take It", "Tommy's Holiday Camp", "Tommy Can You Hear Me", "There's a Doctor I've Found", "Sally Simpson", "Pinball Wizard", "Overture" (Tommy), "Miracle Cure", "It's a Boy", "I'm Free", "Go to the Mirror Boy", "Eyesight to the Blind", ...

Also See:

? -- Mahabharata (Indian epic movie soundtrack, i think)
America -- History (Greatest Hits)
B-52's -- misc
Brazil -- soundtrack (composed by Michael Kamen, one vocal by Kate Bush)
Canadian Brass -- misc.
Carl Orff -- Carmina Burana
Cure -- misc.
David Bowie -- misc.
David Byrne -- Uh Oh
Fleetwood Mac -- Greatest Hits
Janis Joplin -- Greatest Hits
Jethro Tull -- Aqualung
Joan Baez -- (folk) Volume 1, Volume 2, Farewell Angelina
Joan Baez -- misc.
Johann Sebastian Bach -- misc.
John Williams -- misc. guitar
Judy Garland -- misc.
Julean Bream -- misc.
Leadbelly -- "On a Monday", "Midnight Special"
"Michael, Row the Boat Ashore"
Paul Simon -- misc.
Pete Seeger -- Blue Tail Fly
Philip Glass -- misc.
Pogues -- misc.
Queen Latifa -- Nature of a Sista', All Hail the Queen
Residents -- Swastikas on Parade, Hitler Was A Vegetarian, Birds in the Trees, misc.
Richard O'Brian -- The Rocky Horror Picture Show (original soundtrack, not dubbed over)
Sting -- misc.
Supertramp -- Breakfast in America
Vivaldi -- The Four Seasons, ...

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This is the section where i write random things whenever i feel like it.

JodawiSound: The Early Years...

I have a weird relationship with music. Wasn't interested in it much until college, when Devon had me listen to Pink Floyd and Kate Bush and i started developing a sense of music as more than just light background noise. I had previously liked some things, but not at a deep level: the Star Wars album when i was a little tyke, the Nutcracker Suite, some of Yes, Boy George, the Cars, and the usual better-sorts-of-pop/rock suspects. Then in college the transformation came, and music became a reson to live, usually best experienced blasting into my ears as loudly as the available speakers could manage without excess distortion. Quadrophenia, most of Pink Floyd, most of Kate Bush, Negativland, Dead Kennedys, .... I listened to some Pink Floyd albums enough to memorize them, which came in handy one summer when i worked at a hideous berry-processing job, since i could play them in my head to deal with the boredom. Now that i'm in the greater (?) stress of graduate school and work-world, i don't often manage to enjoy anything blasting into my ears, and don't listen a whole lot. Except for the other night when i felt compelled to rejoin the stupid CD club and also went out to buy Siouxsie and the Banshees and ten other CDs, for which to slice through my soul and make my office vibrate at 2am.

So i oscillate between passionate compulsion to merge with the sound, and aggravated indifference to it all. I also tend to listen intently to perfect albums like The Kick Inside over and over, till i have them mostly memorized and they play in my head from my morning dreams to my can't-get-to-sleep nights. At that point, i decide i should not have listened to it so much and feel depressed about losing the raw presence that newly discovered perfect music has.

Purpose & Other Falsehoods

I'm not interested in music as a reflection of my image, or because Bob Smith say's it's cool and i want to be cool. It has to do something to me to get listed here. As a result, i'm usually not terribly interested in the makers of the music -- i don't read zines (too many of which are too conformist to the 'zine look'), or rock magazines, or newsgroups, or keep up on some scene, or the fact that member X of Y is now playing with Z. I'm not disinterested in these things, just not interested enough to indulge in it on my own.

However, i am rather fond of the authentic quality of Sinead O'Connor and Nirvana, just as the growing inauthentic quality of U2 irritates me. I'm distressed at what seems to have happened lately to the music produced by Clannad or Kate Bush, and at the fact that people can listen to the new pinkish floyd and think that it's really Pink Floyd. I hate any music by Prince on general principle which has nothing to do with the music itself. Purple is my color, dammit. This paragraph does not stick together as well as steaming un- bemilked oatmeal does.

That which would be Nice.

Someday when i'm not a slave to industry and survival, i hope to start making music of my own. If it's not too pathetic. Chiefly interested in percussion and keyboard. Not interested in fusion so much (squishing all different kinds of music into the same song) as having a wide variety of different sounds in different songs. Would probably study music theory of different sorts, merge some elements of Philip Glass, blah blah blah. If i ever became good i would do something with traditional songs like Scarborough Fair and other perfect little things, but would be afraid to until i had skill and talent for fear of hurting them.