General Music Chat

I was the kind of teen ager that had the means to buy albums, posters, blacklights, strobes and the like that created a great listening environment for my Cheap ass GE turntable that didn't even have radio. I DJ'd everything. Had quite a collection of vinyl. I also bought my own clothes, which took from as much as I wanted. some albums had cover art that may have surpassed the music. Styx had great music and great cover art. Some albums I would buy "on faith" the music was good because the cover art was good. Problem was twofold, if not more. Albums got put on the shelf, side by side with other cover art that seldom was seen unless you put the vinyl on and your coolest album cover was used to separate seeds from buds. Some weren't pictures, but colors such as Heart Dreamboat Annie, or drawing/graphic art such as Kansas, Leftoverture. CDs came out and people replaced their entire collections on digital facsimiles. Some of us didn't. Sure, replace, but not destroy. I have albums I make frames for that interlock as they hang on a wall that recieve the vinyl's jacket and album that open,giving access to the art (displayed) and the music as only can be heard on vinyl. 30 albums with swinging hinges make a wall of art that take you back and inspire the new. Some cover art is not all that great, but the album's music is a must have in any officianado's collection, and are inviting when they are seen, not stacked.

My favorite seed separated albums were things like Tommy, the movie. The cover art sucked (as well as the music with the exception of Elton John's pinball Wizard, and I did not care of the scrapings of the finish of a bi- fold.

And there's this, you can ask people (sheeple) for albums that they don't appreciate.

I did not have a stereo anywhere except in my ride.
There were a few albums. Very few. But I could not listen to them unless my folks were out.
Not until Jeanette and I married did we collect vinyl. And not really much of that as we were poor working class kids living on love.
Our first home together an apartment in Monahans Texas we had our hand me down bed and my grandmothers old console TV.
We sat in an old hide a bed couch with the banana boxes we moved in as end tables.
The majority of our music again was portable in the form of 8 tracks & cassettes.
We were happy just to be alive and together.

I did not have a stereo anywhere except in my ride.
There were a few albums. Very few. But I could not listen to them unless my folks were out.
Not until Jeanette and I married did we collect vinyl. And not really much of that as we were poor working class kids living on love.
Our first home together an apartment in Monahans Texas we had our hand me down bed and my grandmothers old console TV.
We sat in an old hide a bed couch with the banana boxes we moved in as end tables.
The majority of our music again was portable in the form of 8 tracks & cassettes.
We were happy just to be alive and together.

There's a song in your story Sans.
Even if it reminded me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuM2FTq5f1o
Do your own.

I did not have a stereo anywhere except in my ride.
There were a few albums. Very few. But I could not listen to them unless my folks were out.
Not until Jeanette and I married did we collect vinyl. And not really much of that as we were poor working class kids living on love.
Our first home together an apartment in Monahans Texas we had our hand me down bed and my grandmothers old console TV.
We sat in an old hide a bed couch with the banana boxes we moved in as end tables.
The majority of our music again was portable in the form of 8 tracks & cassettes.
We were happy just to be alive and together.

There's a song in your story Sans.
Even if it reminded me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuM2FTq5f1o
Do your own.

Yes ...

It's a shame sometimes I'm no song writer.
I can on occasion scribe what is given to me by inspiration.
However any attempt to cold write anything has ended in total disaster.

I did not have a stereo anywhere except in my ride.
There were a few albums. Very few. But I could not listen to them unless my folks were out.
Not until Jeanette and I married did we collect vinyl. And not really much of that as we were poor working class kids living on love.
Our first home together an apartment in Monahans Texas we had our hand me down bed and my grandmothers old console TV.
We sat in an old hide a bed couch with the banana boxes we moved in as end tables.
The majority of our music again was portable in the form of 8 tracks & cassettes.
We were happy just to be alive and together.

There's a song in your story Sans.
Even if it reminded me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuM2FTq5f1o
Do your own.

Yes ...

It's a shame sometimes I'm no song writer.
I can on occasion scribe what is given to me by inspiration.
However any attempt to cold write anything has ended in total disaster.

So don't cold write and use a notebook.
That's why I started using it.
If the first song sucks, write another.

I have tried.

It would seem that if I don't "wake up " with the whole song already running through my head I just muddle it up with my preconceptions.

Just the other evening the boyz were toying with some lyrics and I threw down a rhythm line for them.
When I finished Eric said yeah that's great but we can't use it.
" Why can't we? " I asked ...
UH ... because that's " Mean Mistreater" by GFR.

I did not have a stereo anywhere except in my ride.
There were a few albums. Very few. But I could not listen to them unless my folks were out.
Not until Jeanette and I married did we collect vinyl. And not really much of that as we were poor working class kids living on love.
Our first home together an apartment in Monahans Texas we had our hand me down bed and my grandmothers old console TV.
We sat in an old hide a bed couch with the banana boxes we moved in as end tables.
The majority of our music again was portable in the form of 8 tracks & cassettes.
We were happy just to be alive and together.

There's a song in your story Sans.
Even if it reminded me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuM2FTq5f1o
Do your own.

WOW, I can't believe I didn't see that earlier Jahva..

There is a tune in there.. albeit it sounds like John Cougar Mellencamp..
"Americana rock".

I was 21 she 18 ...

We married just before we moved out to the desert more to keep our parents happy than because we at the time thought it the right thing to do.
Basically the same reason I cut my long hair off ...
It was what the "man" expected.
And we thought we were getting financial security in the trade off.
What utter bullshit that turned out to be.

All we knew for sure was I had a bad ass job offer and I was going, so she was going too.

That is Americana ... is it not ?

Yes.

Still sounds like a good start to me.
Just a thought... I can only speak for myself but song writing takes on its own form with each song. Some seem easy 1st writes while others are re-written again and again and... .
I think you just have to keep doing it. Eventually you find a few that make it worth the wait.
There's a lyrical honesty that comes through in your words. Like Capt. said very Americana Mellencamp folky whatever you want to call it.... it's there.
The theme I hear reminds me a bit of "The Pretender" by Jackson Browne.

I could make a killer video of this.

It'd be similar to "little pink houses".

(I hate that music, but it sells)