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People keep adding interesting answers to my Decade's End question, if you want to go back and look. In the meantime I've gotten another response via email, which I'm putting into the comments. The question is:
What do you think the story of the decade in music is? Or what was the story of the decade in music for you? I said "Just list one" last time, but I've kind of added a second question here in adding that "for you" bit, haven't I? So if you answered one of them last time ("what the story is") and the other ("what the story is for me" ["me" being you]) is different, you're invited to answer the second one here in the comments. (And you can comment on the last comments in these comments if you want, lj's "use-by" date being so frustratingly quick.)
What do you think the story of the decade in music is? Or what was the story of the decade in music for you? I said "Just list one" last time, but I've kind of added a second question here in adding that "for you" bit, haven't I? So if you answered one of them last time ("what the story is") and the other ("what the story is for me" ["me" being you]) is different, you're invited to answer the second one here in the comments. (And you can comment on the last comments in these comments if you want, lj's "use-by" date being so frustratingly quick.)
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Date: 2009-11-25 04:50 pm (UTC)Geez. I don't know if I can identify what the last decade in music has been "about". I don't listen to current radio or watch MTV or anything for years now, so I just kinda stumble across stuff by accident, and on recommendations from other folks. I gravitate to stuff that really speaks to me about my life currently, or makes me insanely happy for some reason (Lady GaGa comes to mind) or that is important to other people I care about and we bond over it. (That's one of the great things about music, right?) Sometimes I start trawling around on You Tube for one kind of music and discover it's hooked up to something else, and get all excited about whatever that was. Most of my posts to Twitter and Facebook are links to music I want people to hear that I'm enchanted by at the moment. The soundtrack of my life for the last year or so, has been, in no particular order, mostly from these folks: Feel free to lie and say this is what I've been listening to for a decade instead of just mostly the last year:
Jonathan Coulton
Ben Folds (both solo and with The Ben Folds Five, and the college group a capella versions of his stuff....I can geek out to a capella forever)
Tim Minchin (HUGE in the Skeptic community, and he's awesome)
Gogol Bordello
Lady GaGa (doing it better than Madonna, IMHO, but I missed the torch passing ceremony)
Steely Dan (a fixture, always)
Lotsa Punk (XTC & Propaghandi, mostly, but others too)
Jr. Walker & The Allstars
Sondheim Musicals (mostly "Company" & "Sweeney Todd" in various versions)
Man of La Mancha original Broadway cast
The Fantasticks original Broadway cast (though there are interesting variants online on YouTube, I got re-interested because my friend was in it and I went to see it)
Jamie Cullum
Lee Presson & The Nails (I saw them live at the DNA Lounge, gawd they are so great)
Brian Setzer Orchestra (I have tickets to the Xmas show at the Great American Music Hall!!!)
Thelonius Monk and other Jazz standbys
Lotsa Ragtime, by Scott Joplin but also others. Check out a pianist on You Tube called "Bach Scholar."
Hope that helps even remotely, though I've prolly forgotten something.
[Of course one of the stories of the decade is that rockcrit writer types etc. are less sure of a decade's story as more stories from more people push their way to attention. A subtheme of LizKhatt's response is that any music recorded anywhere is potentially available, and can be part of your present even if it wasn't part of your past.]