Musical Interests Part 1
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Initially I wanted to write a quick post with Bart's favorite albums from each year of his life, 1975-2012.
But, that quick post turned in to three hours of me looking through albums, and track lists, and realizing that identifying just one album per year would be difficult. Very difficult.
Then I started thinking of ways I could compartmentalize my musical selections in order to make my task easier. There were a lot of options…too many options for the time I have:
Best xx albums of all time...
Best albums of 19xx or 20xx...
Best year in music...
Best band of all time...
Top (insert genre of music) bands...
Top 3 albums from each year of my life...
Indecisive as ever, I couldn't decide which of these would be most fun or challenging or whatever. So, I'm going to periodically fire out random thoughts about bands, albums, or singles that have influenced me in some way. Or maybe, more simply, just bands or songs that I like. I'll go wherever the road takes me, whatever pops into my head.
Today I'm going to start with the only easy year in music from my initial search to find the best album from every year of my life. The year was 1980. The band: AC/DC. They released Back in Black that year. I was only five years old at the time, so I don't remember specifically whether I heard them that year or even knew who they were. But I do know I've listened to the songs from that album hundreds of times over the past 25 years or so. I did as recently as this week.
Favorite song from that album: You Shook Me All Night Long. Obvious, I know, but what a classic, eh? It sounds great today, just as it has for years, and strangely, it is one of the few songs that I've heard which never sound dated to me. I never hear it and think of it as a 33-year-old song.
And, so, a quick nod to AC/DC, walls that are shaking, earth that's quaking, and the year 1980.
Good night!
