So… what are you listening to?
In my youth, I listened to “Stairway to Heaven” until I could no longer listen to Stairway to Heaven. Heck, I reached the point where “Ten Years Gone” was the only Zep song I could hear the first two notes of without screaming and then either hitting the radio channel button or crashing the car. There was one slight exception… I could listen to Dread Zeppelin.
If you’ve not heard of them, they are a reggae band that does covers of Zep songs with an Elvis impersonator for a lead singer. The first time I heard of them, I laughed because I figured that they were little more than a novelty act… Then I heard Stairway.
Music to sustain difficult coding these days:
Husky Rescue, a Helsinki band, a fave of my daughter currently living in Turku:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lR5S32JOAo
Tortoise, a Chicago band: Seneca.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X9nvVDBKRg
Ryuichi Sakamoto, Tango. Which is odd, it’s a rumba and it’s in Spanish, not Portuguese. Still it’s a dynamite tune for lovemaking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37U7wV_lIRw
Ryuichi Sakamoto used to do this sort of synthpop back in the day. Yellow Magic Orchestra, Solid State Survivor and Nice Age. I used to play this stuff on a Korg y con gusto. Great changes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtR3V51YmNU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1chfLyM7-24
Jellyfish, an insanely great San Francisco band from the 90s nobody ever heard of: Joining a Fan Club
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JojV8kNfWK8
I love Jellyfish’s The Ghost At Number One and listened to the tape in my car until it broke.