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70ies music and LoM
This is a squee post about music and vidding mostly focusing on Life on Mars. Just a warning, in case you're neither interested in 70ies music nor in the show ;).
I just took a look at the series 1 soundtrack album tracklist - and whoa, talk about childhood memories. No, I did not grow up in the seventies, lol, but from my taste in music, I could just as well have. My dad loves music, and used to play a lot of it when I was little, and he did grow up in the 70ies (well, okay, he went to uni and got married in the 70ies, but, you know).
The point is that I pretty much absorbed his taste in music, and while I might not agree with a lot of his opinions, he does have a good taste in music. Eric Clapton was my childhood hero. I used to steal my dad's tapes and play them, and the first song I remember to have absolutely adored is Layla. (Not the instrumental version. That wasn't released yet back then.)
So I actually know most of the songs they used in LoM, even though I don't know the title of most of them, because I heard them when I was little and didn't know how to pronounce the song titles or the band names. But watching LoM gave me this craving to listen to my old Clapton tapes, and I don't have them anymore! *weeps* Well, I think they are somewhere in a box at my parents' place, but I don't have them here. I had one that had all the really old Yardbirds stuff on it, that's the one I want right now - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (anyone who released that song today would so get arrested, lol xD), Presence of the Lord, all that stuff. And Cream. My dad actually has a Cream record; I wonder if he'll let me steal it next time I'm at my parents'. Songs like that you have to listen to on a record player, otherwise they'll sound weird.
Clapton made so many songs that are perfect for LoM vids. Can't find my way home and I Shot The Sheriff are just two that come to mind. (Although he didn't really write those two; they're both covers. People who claim that bands nowadays only play covers and that this wasn't the case in the good old times are such blatant liars, lol.) Born in Time is another cover song, and it would make such a wonderful Annie/Sam vid if it weren't so schmoopy - although the schmoopiest song ever for LoM vidding is Unintended by Muse. It has such great lyrics, but it would make such a terrible vid, lol. I am so tempted to make a Gene/Sam one to that song. It would be lolarious.
Anyway, I'm off to see which Eric Clapton CDs I do have - although I think they're all post-70ies solo releases; no Yardbirds or Derek and the Dominos stuff. (That's another thing. The band names. Derek and the Dominos, Tom Petty and the Heart Breakers, Sonny Smith and the Thirteenth Floor Elevators - no, I made that one up, but hey, it could have existed, right? On the LoM soundtrack, there's a band called Brief Interlude Dialogue. Lol whut?) I might have to resort to listening to Led Zep and mentally replacing Jimmy Page with Clapton, lol xD.
I just took a look at the series 1 soundtrack album tracklist - and whoa, talk about childhood memories. No, I did not grow up in the seventies, lol, but from my taste in music, I could just as well have. My dad loves music, and used to play a lot of it when I was little, and he did grow up in the 70ies (well, okay, he went to uni and got married in the 70ies, but, you know).
The point is that I pretty much absorbed his taste in music, and while I might not agree with a lot of his opinions, he does have a good taste in music. Eric Clapton was my childhood hero. I used to steal my dad's tapes and play them, and the first song I remember to have absolutely adored is Layla. (Not the instrumental version. That wasn't released yet back then.)
So I actually know most of the songs they used in LoM, even though I don't know the title of most of them, because I heard them when I was little and didn't know how to pronounce the song titles or the band names. But watching LoM gave me this craving to listen to my old Clapton tapes, and I don't have them anymore! *weeps* Well, I think they are somewhere in a box at my parents' place, but I don't have them here. I had one that had all the really old Yardbirds stuff on it, that's the one I want right now - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (anyone who released that song today would so get arrested, lol xD), Presence of the Lord, all that stuff. And Cream. My dad actually has a Cream record; I wonder if he'll let me steal it next time I'm at my parents'. Songs like that you have to listen to on a record player, otherwise they'll sound weird.
Clapton made so many songs that are perfect for LoM vids. Can't find my way home and I Shot The Sheriff are just two that come to mind. (Although he didn't really write those two; they're both covers. People who claim that bands nowadays only play covers and that this wasn't the case in the good old times are such blatant liars, lol.) Born in Time is another cover song, and it would make such a wonderful Annie/Sam vid if it weren't so schmoopy - although the schmoopiest song ever for LoM vidding is Unintended by Muse. It has such great lyrics, but it would make such a terrible vid, lol. I am so tempted to make a Gene/Sam one to that song. It would be lolarious.
Anyway, I'm off to see which Eric Clapton CDs I do have - although I think they're all post-70ies solo releases; no Yardbirds or Derek and the Dominos stuff. (That's another thing. The band names. Derek and the Dominos, Tom Petty and the Heart Breakers, Sonny Smith and the Thirteenth Floor Elevators - no, I made that one up, but hey, it could have existed, right? On the LoM soundtrack, there's a band called Brief Interlude Dialogue. Lol whut?) I might have to resort to listening to Led Zep and mentally replacing Jimmy Page with Clapton, lol xD.