My parents, particularly my mum loved strings. Lush and syrupy and shrill. That's how she liked it. I bought a Frank Chacksfield record just so she could hear her favourite song of all time, "Ebb Tide" when she visits. When she was moving out of her house she had to downsize just about everything and I went through the remaining records in the cabinet. I found quite a few that came home with me. Some I was genuinely curious to hear, and some were for her to listen to when she comes over. Hits of the 70's was released in 1972 and the essay on the back cover says the album contains the main themes to three of the most successful motion pictures of the decade. Yup, two years in and they're calling it. Then whoever wrote the back piece went even further by stating, "70's music is the most feeling popular music in the history of man." I gotta say I was hooked even before dropping the needle, and boy the album delivered the goods. In fact I'd go so f...
A place where I just blather on about shit that I either miss, or am excited about. Or I could just be deliberately trying to waste your time. I generally really don't know what I'm talking about. Sometimes I do. Sometimes this is like a stream of consciousness brain dump. I like to think of it as a reaction video, without the video ... mostly though it's just me rambling ... it's meanderambling. #oldenoughtoforget