We're gonna talk about music tonight.
If you were to look inside my iTunes library, you'd find many songs/artists typical of today's adolescents: Coldplay, Foster the People, the Glee cast, The Beatles, Lady Gaga, Dave Matthews Band...the works. But there are also some selections that may or may not be known, such as the Benedictine Monks (the ones that chant), Credence Clearwater Revival, and Flogging Molly. It would be an understatement to say that I have a wide variety of music within my collection. There's classic rock, show tunes, Flamenco/jazz fusion, movies scores, Irish punk rock, big band era, dance, 90's grunge, obscure independent artists (and I mean obscure), a dash of country (just a smidge)...And did I mention the monks?
I don't necessarily have a favorite artists or genre. I could pinpoint a few, but I couldn't narrow it down to just one or two. I was talking to someone a few months ago (I think it was my driver's ed teacher) about this, and he said that's pretty common nowadays. When he was a teenager, people did have a favorite genre, and they had huge collections (tapes, records, CDs) that exemplified their passion. Today's collections (or libraries) are just as large, but far more extensive. Part of it is due to the fact that people, within the past few years, have gained greater access to music through digital downloads, making purchasing music cheaper and more convenient than forking over twenty dollars for an entire CD when you only really liked two or three songs on the entire album. Individual tracks can be purchased. It's peculiar, how many people have access to all of these artists, old and new.
For the record, the most played songs in my library currently include (but are not limited to):
-"Lily's Theme" Alexander Desplat (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 soundtrack)
-:Love Love Love" The Mountain Goats (The Sunset Tree)
-"Never Going Back Again" Fleetwood Mac (Rumors) <--This one is probably in my Top 5 favorite songs of all time
-"Club Can't Handle Me" Flo Rida (Step Up 3D soundtrack)
-"Roll Away Your Stone" Mumford and Sons (Sigh No More)
- "You Should Know" Mike Lombardo (You Should Know)
-"I've Got A Dream" Mandy Moore (Tangled soundtrack)
-"October"-Eric Whitacre
So there's that. My colorful ,albeit sometimes strange (and still growing), collection of music. Because there's nothing else to talk about tonight, but I actually felt like writing something.
It's really windy here, and my power is in danger of going out any second. Guess that means it's time to go to bed. 'Night, all.
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