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[jfb]

elks tagged me for the "five songs you currently love" meme. I tried another one like this, and you know, really, I think I'm a monogamous song-lover. The only song I really love right now is

1. Richard Buckner - Ariel Ramirez

as I mentioned the other night. But, okay, I've also been listening to a lot of

2. The Blue Nile - Easter Parade

and trying to arrange it for accordion and voice.

And the other night I really wanted to hear something by Rachel's, not a specific song, but I ended up highly satisfied by the first one I ever heard,

3. Rachel's - Tea Merchants

Whenever something comes on from this one album by a Swedish traditional fiddler working with a sort of new-age American guitarist, I turn it up and I'm happy, so let's throw in

4. Knut Hamre and Steve Tibbetts - Noringen

Finally, driving home from the Jason Webley show last week, antisocial and needing to cocoon myself in rock, I chose

5. Kid Dakota - Pilgrim

I don't usually tag people, but then usually people don't tag me, so. If you don't feel like doing it or you already have, skip it, but here's my list (see here for the real instructions): artname, perci, helloreplace, maneater, spin_withagrin.

Comments

[monkey587.livejournal.com]

I disagree with the "ner age" label on Tibbetts. Have you heard "The Fall of us All"?

He's a really great guy, too. I have a funny story about him I could tell when I'm not about to fall asleep.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

No, I know almost nothing about Tibbetts outside of this work. His approach on this CD is very ambient, which, when combined with the "ethnic" aspect, seems pretty new-age. It's also wonderful.

[monkey587.livejournal.com]

I will disagree. and highly recommend listening to other stuff of his, such as The Fall Of Us All.

Much of my objection comes from my experience of New Age being almost invariably mindless and directionless noodling, whereas Tibbetts generally has much direction and his compositions are very thoughtful. Granted, that may be difficult to detect in the context of scandinavian music.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

It seems to me you're reacting as if I've insulted Tibbetts, which is weird, because I've said repeatedly that I really like the one album I've heard from him.

[monkey587.livejournal.com]

Sorry. My recommendation of listening to his other stuff is independent from the objection to the term. Which isn't that big of a deal... I also generally object to the term "celtic" but I'm learning to accept that the fact that it conveys meaning to people makes it valid even if it's basically made up.

[spin-withagrin.livejournal.com]

Sure thing dudes I'll do it :)

You bastard!

[artname.livejournal.com]

I mean here's my list.

Glad it wasn't a desert island question -- it got me thinking a lot about songs I love, and I managed to pick five, though not in as broad a range as I was first considering. I could have probably found five from different centuries.