Comments on: Music: A little of this, a little of that http://schiing.terjefjelde.com/2007/09/music-a-little-of-this-a-little-of-that.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:56:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: schiing http://schiing.terjefjelde.com/2007/09/music-a-little-of-this-a-little-of-that.html#comment-145 schiing Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:55:23 +0000 http://schiing.terjefjelde.com/2007/09/music-a-little-of-this-a-little-of-that.html#comment-145 Oh, I will never be able to make a top 10 list of my favorite songs, Robert, probably not even a top 100 list. It just shifts constantly, and I wouldn't know where to begin. Wilco would probably not be on my list, though. Wait, there's one song that will probably always be on my list (now you've got me started): "After The Love Has Gone"! It's been a cornerstone for me, probably since it came out, when I was 8. The rich harmonies, the jazz references, the R&B style - almost bordering on soft rock, the horns, the piano, the arrangement, the precision and the detailed production, the key changes, the syncopation, the fact that it's a ballad, David Foster, who was my musical hero in the 1980s, Earth, Wind & Fire, Maurice White. It defines a lot of what's been important to me in music in the last 30 years - so that would definitely make my list! But apart from that, I would never.. wait... there's one more... no - I will NOT walk down this path. OK, it's "Hey Nineteen." Stop, Terje, stop! "New York State of Mind", "Still Crazy After All These Years"... "I'll Never Fall In Love Again", "Waltz For Debby", "Being Boring." Enough already! Oh, I will never be able to make a top 10 list of my favorite songs, Robert, probably not even a top 100 list. It just shifts constantly, and I wouldn’t know where to begin. Wilco would probably not be on my list, though.

Wait, there’s one song that will probably always be on my list (now you’ve got me started): “After The Love Has Gone”! It’s been a cornerstone for me, probably since it came out, when I was 8. The rich harmonies, the jazz references, the R&B style - almost bordering on soft rock, the horns, the piano, the arrangement, the precision and the detailed production, the key changes, the syncopation, the fact that it’s a ballad, David Foster, who was my musical hero in the 1980s, Earth, Wind & Fire, Maurice White. It defines a lot of what’s been important to me in music in the last 30 years - so that would definitely make my list!

But apart from that, I would never.. wait… there’s one more… no - I will NOT walk down this path. OK, it’s “Hey Nineteen.” Stop, Terje, stop! “New York State of Mind”, “Still Crazy After All These Years”… “I’ll Never Fall In Love Again”, “Waltz For Debby”, “Being Boring.” Enough already!

]]> By: Robert http://schiing.terjefjelde.com/2007/09/music-a-little-of-this-a-little-of-that.html#comment-144 Robert Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:50:09 +0000 http://schiing.terjefjelde.com/2007/09/music-a-little-of-this-a-little-of-that.html#comment-144 I was just leaving a comment on someone else's blog about how I loved Billy Joel's hits as a child, then in my twenties thought some of them didn't hold up too well, and now in my thirties I'm enjoying them again (well, not all of them, but I will defend "You're Only Human" for its breezy quality). One of the few things I like about getting older is letting go of ideas of what's cool or not cool, because by this point who cares? Countdown shows like "50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs Ever" or "100 Guiltiest Pleasures" irritate me, but I do think that if either of us were asked to make a top 10 list of our favorite songs of all time, Terje, we would probably do a lot of revising before we submitted our list. I mean, I don't care if I'm hip or not, but I do want to appear ... you know ... SOPHISTICATED. Of course, a few months after submitting my list I'd look back and say, "Who was I kidding? I never listen to that Wilco song!" I was just leaving a comment on someone else’s blog about how I loved Billy Joel’s hits as a child, then in my twenties thought some of them didn’t hold up too well, and now in my thirties I’m enjoying them again (well, not all of them, but I will defend “You’re Only Human” for its breezy quality). One of the few things I like about getting older is letting go of ideas of what’s cool or not cool, because by this point who cares? Countdown shows like “50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs Ever” or “100 Guiltiest Pleasures” irritate me, but I do think that if either of us were asked to make a top 10 list of our favorite songs of all time, Terje, we would probably do a lot of revising before we submitted our list. I mean, I don’t care if I’m hip or not, but I do want to appear … you know … SOPHISTICATED. Of course, a few months after submitting my list I’d look back and say, “Who was I kidding? I never listen to that Wilco song!”

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