More Music

[stoutfellow]

Saturday. Saturday morning, Dad, D[1] and I went to see "Cars". Not a bad movie, of the "city slicker goes to the country and learns valuable lesson" type; some of the characters - notably the Judge - approached two-dimensionality. jeriendhal has a pretty good review here; I do have to point out that the protagonist's name was Lightning (not Speed) McQueen.

After the movie, I told the others to go ahead home; I had some shopping to do. (The theater is only a mile or so from Dad's place.) First stop was a visit to Barnes & Noble. I decided against buying books, for various reasons, but I did want to pick up a few CDs; details under the cut.

Continuing my '60s nostalgia binge, I bought two greatest-hits CDs, by the Byrds ("Turn, Turn, Turn" and "Mr. Tambourine Man", of course, but also "Eight Miles High") and the Association ("Cherish", "Along Comes Mary", "Windy"). I added three albums that I already have on vinyl: Blood, Sweat & Tears, Greatest Hits; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Four Way Street; and Fleetwood Mac, Rumours. The BS&T album has some overlap with the other album of theirs that I own, but it also has "Hi-de-ho", "Lucretia Mac Evil", "Lisa, Listen To Me", and "Go Down Gambling". Four Way Street is a classic protest album ("Teach Your Children Well", "Chicago", "Southern Man", "Ohio"). I hesitated between Rumours and Fleetwood Mac, but I have a slight preference for the former. (I like every song on it except "Don't Stop". I have an irrational dislike for songs of that ilk - "Tomorrow", from Annie, is another - and it drove me nuts when the Clintons chose it as a theme song.) Finally, I bought another greatest-hits album by Bob Seger (I wanted "Night Moves" and "Hollywood Nights"), the Bangles' Different Light album ("Manic Monday", "Walk Like an Egyptian"), and Sophie B. Hawkins' Wilderness album. I'm taking a complete flyer on that last one; I don't know any of the songs on it, but I liked Whaler enough that I'm willing to take the chance.

I was hoping to find an album by the late Desmond Decker Dekker ("Israelites"), but no such luck; I'll have to hunt for it online.

(Oh, yeah. Second stop was a visit to a nearby restaurant for a gift certificate for Dad's birthday.)

[1] This is my brother D, not my ex-classmate D!

Comments

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

OMG - the Israelites??? I haven't heard that it forever. Not to mention that I thought I was the only one that *liked* it!

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

"Israelites" is one of those songs that occasionally flits through my mind, provoking brief curiosity - who sang it? When did I hear it last? (Mary Hopkin's "Those Were The Days" is another; there's yet another song including the lines, "It's a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack", which I haven't been able to peg either by title or by singer...) When I saw Decker's obituary a while back, I looked him up online and discovered that "Israelites" was his. I don't have any reggae in my collection, so...

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

Aha: that last one is "Master Jack", by Four Jacks and a Jill.

[filkferengi]

Did you hear about the huge Byrds box set they're coming out with? 99 songs & dvds of old tv performances.

You still have good taste in music. :)