Comfort food for the ears

[jducoeur]

When I'm feeling insecure and unsure about myself and my design skills, there are few things better to get me out of my head and focused again than Pat Benatar at slammingly loud decibels...

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[rickthefightguy.livejournal.com]

I happened to mention to my sweetie how I loved Chris DeBerg when I was younger and haven't heard him in the longest time (except for Don Levy's cover of Patricia the Stripper). She went and bought me a copy of Spanish Train. We listened to it in the car for a bit... then we looked at each other and turned it back to NPR. Woah. Not good.

[dlevey.livejournal.com]

Some music ages better than other music. Add personal taste to the mix (which also changes) and it gets real tough to revisit old memories.

[jducoeur]

Heh. Yeah, I've got his greatest hits album. I'm still very fond of Don't Pay the Ferryman, but aside from that I don't have a lot of use for it...

[wickedgoodgrrrl.livejournal.com]

Would that Pat Benetar music be from the "Get Nervous" album? It took me about twenty years before I heard it and realized its fabulousness. Sorry to say I haven't gotten my own copy since then, but now that I can get CDs from the library and make MP3 files...well, thanks for sending me on that path.

As for my "power to work" music of choice, can't say I have same within the parameters you describe. I still loves me my Thos. Dolby "The Golden Age of Wireless" and "The Flat Earth" albums, and eighties music or movies--teen comedies, mostly--are terrific background noise, especially when I'm working on a novel that opens in 1985. "Star Blazers" on DVD, or SF movies when I'm trying to write SF. Ray Harryhausen movies have given me a couple of awesome ideas for my own (non-SF) projects. And as a lover of cocktail jazz/lounge music, I'm soon going to try Esquivel, Martin Denny, Herb Alpert, etc., to see if they help as a soundtrack for my creative work in general.

But I'll try some Pat Benetar too, thanks!


WGG (aka Andrea, ska Rose the Redstockinged)