sound dust

a note:
- i know that it will be summer time soon, because i want to drink beer. i don't drink a lot of beer during the winter. i prefer wine, or gin. last weekend i bought a box of pale ale. today gin and choice was on special, but i had a pint of keith's instead. the buzz from cold beer on a warm day is better than red wine. it feels good.

songs from my iTunes on shuffle(4478 songs, over 12 days straight), with stories

1. bruce cockburn, call it democracy, live 1997: i can't recall ever not listening to bruce cockburn. i was mildly interested until 1997, when i got the charity of night, which is still a favourite album of mine. i listened to it continuously for several months. this song is a didactic, as one can guess from the title. i like this version for the guitar sound. it's his electric resonator guitar, heavily distorted.
   
2. crash vegas, linoleum, 1995: a long defunct canadian band. again, a favourite album of mine in 1999. i listened to this album a lot. fern gave me two songs on a mix tape when we worked at purdys, and then lent me the album. i think it is out of print now.
   
3. mark eitzel, can you see, 2001: in 1998, i was determined to collect anything and everything produced by mitchell froom and tchad blake. to that end, i bought an american music club album that they'd made(mercury, 1993) and soon began collecting mark eitzel albums. a boring story. this is one of the few songs i like on this album, which is overproduced and dull. the booklet has a photo of a space shuttle launching, which i like a lot.
   
4. elvis costello and burt bacharach, toledo, 1998: i bought this for burt bacharach, not elvis costello, who i find irritating. this is a very 'adult' album. what does that even mean? i love burt bacharach. my dad got a free ticket to see him at the orpheum last month and reported that it was 'cheesy'. well, yeah, obviously. oh well. i like to song a lot. a trumpet line!
   
5. david bowie, big brother, 1974: my friend rich LOVES bowie, and made me listen to bowie. now i love bowie. well, some bowie. i like diamond dogs and hunky dory especially. the only album i own, however is reality, from 2003. odd.
   
6. veda hille, wrong, 1999: on an absolute whim in 2001, i went down to the east van cultural centre to the release show for field study. since then, i have seen maybe 5 more shows. to be honest, i first listened to bowie because veda hille did life on mars as an encore at that first show, and i loved the melody. i remembered the lyrics and looked up the song. it was bowie!
   
7. new york city, take my hand, 1974: from saint etienne's songs for mario's cafe. while i have listened to this a lot, i associate it with coming back from kamloops, october 2004. it also ended up on my 'my hotel year' album at the end of the year, collecting songs that i listened to a lot while staying at the delta hotel for the citizen's assembly.
   
8. fairport convention, one sure thing, 1968: fairport are part of the richard thompson extended network. this is the worst of their first four albums, an awfully amateur debut. po-faced psychedelia.
   
9. joe jackson, it's different for girls, live 2003: an incredible song! the best live show i've seen was joe jackson at the commodore in 2003. one of my favourite songs.
   
10. dusty springfield, in the land of make believe, 1969: my most played song to date: 6 times! all this when i still have 2000+ songs that i have not heard even once. this song is the key to the album and as a result is very special.
    
11. paul simon, hearts and bones, 1984: this album is a confluence of cold war paranoia, rumination on belonging, and nostalgia. it is also another hit from my dad's record collection that i've picked up myself. one of my favourite records.
    
12. the lilac time, in iverna gardens, 1993: a crazy story. my dad lent me a tape of rickie lee jones' pop pop in 1996 or so. i was uninterested; covers of old pop songs, whatever. on the other side was something called 'the lilac time - astronauts'. not knowing which was the band and which was the album, i tried listening. i loved it, and listened to the tape for a good four years before i found out who the band were, where they were from, or whether they still existed. it is a story of faith! the album is pastoral. gorgeous production.
    
13. beck, the golden age, 2002: the only beck album i've ever liked. supposedly a 'morose and dull' album. i bought this used on a whim. i like it, but not enough to try anything else.