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Freedom Requires Music December 7, 2007

Posted by Phineas in : Music , trackback

Just as music requires freedom.

Just some random music notes.

Reading a playlist is *nothing* like listening to it. What a list of song and artist names evokes is so pale compared with how it feels to spend the time listening to the songs. Pleasure in music is about time, I think, mainly. Identities and genres and lyrics and histories and personalities are just not really what it’s about.

Sometimes I will be listening to a stream of music, whether on my mp3 player or over last.fm or whatever, and I get kind of stuck doing it. I keep wanting to hear this song to the end. I keep wanting to wait till I find out what the next song will be. If it’s good, I want to listen to the end. And so on. I’m often grateful for a crappy song to come along to break the spell. Otherwise I’d be doing nothing but listening to music.

Christmas songs categorically all suck. I’ll just come right out and say it. I don’t care if it *is* Dean Martin, or Louis Armstrong, or the Beach Boys, or whatever your idea of a cool artists is. They just can’t save “Little Drummer Boy.” There’s no cool way to sing “Let It Snow.” I’m sorry. I have this mix on my ipod which is like 50% of my favorite cool rock and roll, %15 random rock and roll,%20 my favorite Jazz, and %15 of the most tolerable Christmas songs I could find. Sung by my favorite artists, etc.

Guess what? %15 of the mix sucks. You’re grooving along three, four songs at a time, then some damn jing-jingaling-jing-jing bullshit comes on. It’s a crappy song, but it’s Jonathan Richman. It’s a crappy song, but it’s Ella Fitzerald. Somehow that’s almost worst than if it were Perry Como or Mel Torme.

The many other things about Christmas which suck are for another post.

Music is awesome, otherwise. I prescribe it for what ails ya!