Category: Michael D
5 Albums Always in Your Collection
Last week I borrowed a question from Brene’ Brown’s, “Unlocking Us” podcast, “What are the five songs you can’t live without?” This week I’m expanding on the theme to the five albums that will always be in your music collection or carry on your device. I have a small album and 45 collection that I’ve carried with me from junior high days. Three of the five below are in my vinyl collection, and since vinyl is returning, though expensive, I’ll add the other two that I have in my digital collection only.
And the follow up, “What do these reveal about you?”
5 Songs You Can’t Live Without?
And what do those five songs reveal about you?
I didn’t want to like Apple+’s, Ted Lasso. But I do. And, unlike most who want all their shows on demand to binge watch, my companion and I are enjoying the weekly roll out of a new episode. We watched “The Kominsky Method” too quickly. We caught up on “Mare of Easttown” a couple of episodes at a time. The same with “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “Jack Ryan.” It is not nostalgia for a time when I was the remote or only three channels of TV. It wasn’t a simpler time. I think of the shows I watched weekly, on the specific night, that I talked about the next day with friends or as an adult, colleagues. The waiting is the hardest part. Our culture is so immersed in “I want it now and all of it now” that it wouldn’t surprise me if somewhere in streaming land there is already Christmas music. What am I thinking. Spotify exists.
I read somewhere about an interview of Jason Sudeikis (Ted) and Brendan Hunt (Coach Beard) by Bren’e Brown on her podcast, “Unlocking Us.” It’s a great podcast if you are are into such things. At the end of her podcasts she asks a lightening round of questions. One question is, “What are five songs you can’t live without and what do those songs tell us about you?” Those are my kind of questions.
I have a collection of albums, 45’s, cd’s, and digital. I would include 8-track and cassette tapes, but I don’t have a way to play those anymore. I want to think I have an eclectic music ear, but when I sort my digital music, albums, and 45’s I realize just how 1960’s-2000 centric I am. I have few Rap or Hip-Hop songs. I don’t have an ear for it. I’ve been trying to develop it. I haven’t listened to much of the Grammy winning music groups or individual artists in the last 15 years. I work with youth, so to stay current I know some of what is out there, but I don’t own much of it. I don’t rent it from streaming services.
Everyone has music that is a bellows for the divine spark that is within each of us. I gave myself 90 seconds and came up with my five in no specific order.
“Comfortably Numb.” Pink Floyd, “The Wall” (1979)
“Forever Young.” Bob Dylan, “Planet Waves” (1974)
“Redemption Song.” Bob Marley, “Uprising” (1980)
“Onward.” Yes, “Tomato” (1978)
“Waltz Across Texas.” Ernest Tubb, (1965)
Next week, the 5 albums that will always be in my life.