Once I was in a cab when Journey’s “Oh Cherrie” came on (or was that Steve Perry solo?). At first we both tried to pretend like we weren’t into it. He even asked if the radio was bothering me and made as if to turn it down or change the station but seconds later we were humming it and in minutes this cabbie—whom I’d never seen before in my life—and I, were belting it out and so wrapped up in it that we passed my destination with neither of us noticing. It was great! He drove me back the six or seven blocks and didn’t charge me for the trip at all.
Tijanna: Did I already mention Duran Duran? Yeah, I guess I did. Andreas Vollenweider too!
Patty Boss: Ohhhh! Guilty pleasures! I say, stand up for guilty pleasures. Mine? Joni Mitchell. Crosby Stills Nash and Young.
What has been the greatest decade for music?
Sipho: The 60s as an actual decade. Or a toss up of the ten-year periods 1965 to 1975 and 1988 to 1998. Both periods have had the largest impact on the growth of where music has gone as a whole. Does that make sense?
DJ Luna: 80s.
Patty Boss: It just keeps getting better. And luckily music isn't replaced, just accumulated.
Are there any albums you’d qualify as totally flawless in execution?
DJ Luna: Nobody’s perfect.
Tijanna: Believe it or not-side two of Duran Duran's Rio is PERFECT. As is side One of Houses of the Holy.
Patty Boss: Lucinda's Car Wheels on a Gravel Road comes to mind. So does the Mono album I have. I Don't even know the name. So do a few of our contemporary Radiohead, Bjork and Coldplay albums. Total crafted works of art, as a whole.
Sipho: Pearl Jam’s Ten.
Lolo: To me, a perfect album isn’t necessarily my favorite album though it might be. It just means there isn’t a single song I have to skip. I’ve got quite a few. Off the top of my head Mark Hollis’s Mark Hollis. The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds. The Pretty Things’ Parachute. The Who’s Who’s Next. Midnight Marauders – A Tribe Called Quest. Hole’s Live Through This. Emmylou Harris’s Pieces of the Sky. Seals’ first album. Chet Baker’s Somewhere over the Rainbow. Super Furry Animals’ Fuzzy Logic. Zero 7’s Simple Things. Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here. Even on a great album though, there’s at least one song in there that will fuck it up. The closest one for me recently is Avishai Cohen’s At Home. The fourth cut barely makes it for me; sometimes I can listen to it, and sometimes I can’t. If it wasn’t on the disc it’d be one perfect disc!
Article comments
1 - SFC SKI
Great end to the series. A lot to consider, and being that music lovers are passionate people, a few things to argue about as well.
2 - chez
Hey! i 've been enjoying reading and bloggingthru the blob- Thanx
Y'know how one can feel a bit out of it in regards to music (and most anything current) on this island...i'm not a proficient searcher on da computer,so it's nice when it's sent directly to my table. Yarrows arrived recently and has much to share in the music dept. Got to say that the oldies station at work has been entertaining my memories,and my appreciation for old school is intact....thanks for the infusion....