Categories: anything-and-everything
Date: 18 January 2007 08:59:20
...yep, the last couple of years have been just chocca with excellent bands! I was thinking this a while ago, and even contemplated the fact that NOW might be the season of best music in my lifetime... and I've loved a lot of music over the years! I'm aware that I'm not going by the rulebook here... as you get older aren't you supposed to start saying, "Oooh, call that music - now when I was a girl we had REAL music!" Well, oops, I must have missed that one... and even seem to have shifted back to Radio 1 again too (despite the fact we have lost the great John Peel!). I do of course stick to some of the 'rules of ageing' and listen to Radio 2 as well, but my three little fixed stations in the car are Radio 1, Virgin and Radio 4 (in case I want to learn a bit about farming on the way home!).
We do have one problem in our house though - more often than not TeenSon and I both want the same CDs! It seems a bit over-indulgent and unnecessary to be buying two of everything... but when we don't we have the debate on who *this* particular CD actually belongs to! And it is an important debate because it won't be that long 'til he flies the nest (at least to Uni) and takes his lot with him. So, we do often end up with the same CDs because my CD collection has moved out once before, and I'm not letting it happen again! Yes, a number of years ago I went through a divorce. We managed to sort out our lives, access arrangements, who got the house, finances and all that without a solicitor - but blimey, dividing up the CD collection when you've been together from the age of 17 is another thing! Most of the CDs went with him because, after all, he had bought them and all... but I learnt the lesson then and my favourite bands aren't going to move out all in one go again!
So anyway, having said all that, I suppose it would only be right to give commendable mention to the great bands of today... woohoo, I love 'em:
Red Hot Chilli Peppers, White Stripes, My Chemical Romance, Muse, Kasabian, Keane, Razorlight, Snow Patrol, The Kooks, The Streets, Blink-182, The Killers, The Kaiser Chiefs, Hard-Fi, Franz Ferdinand (now playing!) and The Fratellis. This list may well get longer when I wake up a bit!
Praise the Lord for excellent music and great bands!!
(Oh and before someone else says it - yes I know they haven't all only just come on the scene - I mean, look at the Chilli Peppers - but they have been in the market for chucking out albums in the last couple of years!)
Growing list as the day goes on: Green Day, The View...