Right now Toots Thielemans' Contrasts (1966) - it's light and fun (if shmaltzy). Not high art or anything, but pleasant, consistent, and dripping with Toots' truly unique style of hamonica, guitar, and whistling.
and I've Pavlov'd myself by turning it on 1st thing in the morning and cleaning. It's def. not in the running for best music in my collection, but since I got it last year it's been very useful and sometimes that means more.
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6. Favorite single in your collection?
For whatever reason I don't have a ton of singles and don't listen to them much. But one I remember listening to a lot when I first got into records was my dad's Star Wars Disco single by Meco lol.
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11. Is there an “odd man out” record in your collection (it doesn’t fit in with the styles/genres of the rest of your collection)? If so, what is it?
Best I can think of is singer Dianne Reeves' Welcome To My Love (1982) [not to be confused with Nancy Wilson's 1968 album of the same name, arranged by the great Oliver Nelson]. According to my spreadsheet, it's one of the newest records I have (most of my albums are older and far less hip).
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22. Which record in your collection is in the worst condition?
Not sure. I think some of my old James bond soundtracks. My copy of You Only Live Twice (1967) has a moldy cover and the disc is gunked up too. Really don't know why I bought it considering I had it on digital and CD. I'd snap a pic to show you how awful it looks, but along with most of my collection it's at my parents' bc I don't have enough storage here in my apartment!
Happy #spidermanday everyone! Note the #poster by @thealexrossart and #johntomita on the wall. “Theme From Spider‐Man” #song by J. Robert Harris and Paul Francis Webster, 1967. #timelapse #drawing #guitar #hamonica #shaker #spiderman #spidey #peterparker https://www.instagram.com/p/CSC9NiBlrsD/?utm_medium=tumblr
and thatll be all unless i find something that particularly strikes me tonight
SOOOONNNNNNGSSSS
okay the first one, this is a catchy song. i like singer's crooked mouth singing. also the drummer's smile in that one scene. HARMONICAAAA(in my mind it'll always be called hamonica now) for the backstory, i read the wikipedia page about it and omg. i love knowing where songs came from and how they happened.
second onee, concrete blonde! mostly i know their song "joey" but i've heard this one before too and just forgot or didn't know it was them. i like it! the top comment made me laugh:
third one, the cure omg i've never seen this video for that song before, i love this! that guy is so happy to be there. also i love the stage lighting colors
Bestie pointed out that the lonesome guitar-hamonica song that plays over Loretta's letters sounds like it's from Animal Crossing. So now I head-canon that Tom Nook writes Brent very lovely fanmail at 6am and 6pm.