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Jun. 30th, 2025 06:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedGot around yesterday to looking into uploading that Slant album, but couldn't find my external CD drive (Mom asked much later on if it might be in a bin inside the apartment loft closet, long after I had checked all the drawers in both computer desks and the living room cabinet).
Googled to see if its songs might already be up online somewhere, and found this site called AllMusic, listing Try This and three alba from a decade later (not Reindeer Pie, though) and links to Amazon and Apple Music's streaming services. Neither site actually streams them, but I did find those late-'0s alba for sale on Amazon itself.
Brian and Emily arrived for a week-long visit just shortly thereafter, and I showed Brian those three alba. He asked me why I don't just pull them up on Spotify, and while Try This and Reindeer Pie weren't there before, those other three showed right up after I installed the app on my phone.
This left the question as to why those first two alba never appeared there, the basis behind my intention to upload Try This for preservation purposes (and also to reach out for Reindeer Pie), but Brian talked me out of that.
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It was after I came home from work, without the store radio for my phone to conflict with, when I would actually listen to anything. As it turns out, the style is completely different from Try This, feeling more like country or Radiohead.
Brought up with Mom, letting her check out a few songs, and she wasn't surprised that the style would change so many years after Reindeer Pie. I let her check a few songs out, and then went upstairs with her to retrieve Try This while she straightened a few things up while Brian and Emily were out visiting Bill and Karen.
Back downstairs, we managed to hook up our old 5-disk CD player. Right from the start, Mom could see a stark contrast with the general tone of the first song, Call You On the Phone, sung primarily by Denise Hughes (specified in the booklet). She suggested I see if maybe she and others had left the band, leaving the remaining members to carry on in their own style.
I let the disk run for a few more songs, before noticing Mom outside taking care of some things. She was the one I left it on for, so I decided to turn it off then.
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Brought the whole thing up with Brian, after walking a lap down Masem Court and then discovering him chatting with Mom in the living room. That led to a great long discussion involving why most of what you hear these days on the radio and in music videos deals mostly with love, hate, sex, or dance, as opposed to anything more diverse like Steely Dan (a favorite artist of Mom's).
Brian did specify that there still are songs you can find in alba that are similar to Junk Mail and Morse Code (stuff I described you'd expect from Cab Calloway), that just don't make it into mainstream media. Maybe I'm comparing apples to oranges by assuming the '40s jazz that Dad used to listen to on CD to be the equivalent of its own time to stuff on Walmart Radio (which also plays ads and quiz shows) that doesn't usually reach further back than the '70s; by equating three whole alba, each by one artist or duo, to one cherrypicked song or so each by many individual artists or bands.
Will have to ask for some suggestions on the TV Tropes forum, for equivalent songs to Sweet Dreams (La Bouche, 1994) or Oh, Sheila (Ready For the World, 1985), that specifically avoid the dominant four topics, and especially by artists who are not so reknowned and obvious as Michael Jackson.
Googled to see if its songs might already be up online somewhere, and found this site called AllMusic, listing Try This and three alba from a decade later (not Reindeer Pie, though) and links to Amazon and Apple Music's streaming services. Neither site actually streams them, but I did find those late-'0s alba for sale on Amazon itself.
Brian and Emily arrived for a week-long visit just shortly thereafter, and I showed Brian those three alba. He asked me why I don't just pull them up on Spotify, and while Try This and Reindeer Pie weren't there before, those other three showed right up after I installed the app on my phone.
This left the question as to why those first two alba never appeared there, the basis behind my intention to upload Try This for preservation purposes (and also to reach out for Reindeer Pie), but Brian talked me out of that.
-
It was after I came home from work, without the store radio for my phone to conflict with, when I would actually listen to anything. As it turns out, the style is completely different from Try This, feeling more like country or Radiohead.
Brought up with Mom, letting her check out a few songs, and she wasn't surprised that the style would change so many years after Reindeer Pie. I let her check a few songs out, and then went upstairs with her to retrieve Try This while she straightened a few things up while Brian and Emily were out visiting Bill and Karen.
Back downstairs, we managed to hook up our old 5-disk CD player. Right from the start, Mom could see a stark contrast with the general tone of the first song, Call You On the Phone, sung primarily by Denise Hughes (specified in the booklet). She suggested I see if maybe she and others had left the band, leaving the remaining members to carry on in their own style.
I let the disk run for a few more songs, before noticing Mom outside taking care of some things. She was the one I left it on for, so I decided to turn it off then.
-
Brought the whole thing up with Brian, after walking a lap down Masem Court and then discovering him chatting with Mom in the living room. That led to a great long discussion involving why most of what you hear these days on the radio and in music videos deals mostly with love, hate, sex, or dance, as opposed to anything more diverse like Steely Dan (a favorite artist of Mom's).
Brian did specify that there still are songs you can find in alba that are similar to Junk Mail and Morse Code (stuff I described you'd expect from Cab Calloway), that just don't make it into mainstream media. Maybe I'm comparing apples to oranges by assuming the '40s jazz that Dad used to listen to on CD to be the equivalent of its own time to stuff on Walmart Radio (which also plays ads and quiz shows) that doesn't usually reach further back than the '70s; by equating three whole alba, each by one artist or duo, to one cherrypicked song or so each by many individual artists or bands.
Will have to ask for some suggestions on the TV Tropes forum, for equivalent songs to Sweet Dreams (La Bouche, 1994) or Oh, Sheila (Ready For the World, 1985), that specifically avoid the dominant four topics, and especially by artists who are not so reknowned and obvious as Michael Jackson.