Filling the day before Who

[altariel]

Which album would you have recorded? Not your favourite, not "the best", but the one you would have ended up making, given stuff like equipment, talent, a record deal, etc. So, what is the music of your head like?

Please note, if you have recorded an album, you don't have to pick that one.

Mr Altariel: Dreamland, Robert Plant
Me: Bachelor No. 2, Aimee Mann (with bonus track Every day is a Winding Road by Sheryl Crow)
The two of us: 13, Blur

communicator adds: What film would you have made? What novel would you have written? What TV programme or series?

Film in my head: High Plains Drifter
TV show in my head: Callan

Comments

[matildabj.livejournal.com]

Mine would definitely be Maria McKee's first solo album, imaginatively titled 'Maria McKee'. Fab angsty songs. Or something by the Indigo Girls, if I could find a friend to help me (I'd have no shortage of volunteers for that job, I'm sure).

Filling my pre-Who day by reading this new book I got called Hollow Men.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard Maria McKee, although I happily duet on your Indigo Girls album.

Thank you for your comments in your LJ about Hollow Men: I'm chuffed to bits you're enjoying it! :-D

[matildabj.livejournal.com]

I really am! Also, someone I don't know commented in my LJ to ask about the book, saying she loves DS9. I said I didn't want to blow your cover and post a link to it, as you always friends-lock your entries about it. Can I tell her about it? Sounds like she'll be buying a copy...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Oh, please do! My cover on this LJ was blown pretty much right away. I keep those entries locked because my older siblings always squished me mercilessly whenever I showed off as a kid ;-D

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

Kate Bush, The Dreaming.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Which, for no good reason, is the only album of hers I've never heard (and I've worn the rest thin).

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

Then do so! It's the kind of music I hope I'd be able to make if I had about a billion gazillion times more talent than I do.

[manna]

ELO's Time.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Good head music.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

The eponymous Suzanne Vega album. The one with 'Small Blue Thing', 'Marlene on the Wall', and 'The Queen and the Soldier'.

[(Anonymous)]

Oooh - good answer. That, in fact, would be the album of my head if I was a female singer/songwriter.

Mr A.

[(Anonymous)]

Which I'm not.

Except on Wednesday afternoons. Its why the shops used to have to close in the 70s. All the men became singer/songwriters.

Fortunately, modern medicine means we can function "normally" all week.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Have another cup of tea. A really hot one.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Glad you like it.

I tried to think about what album it would be if I were a male singer/songwriter. I failed to think of one.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's good music to have in your head. If I picked a Suzanne Vega one, it would probably be her last one.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Glad you like it.

I don't think I have the last album. And I still have the eponymous one on tape only. It was one I listened to a lot. Not being very with the pop charts, I first heard 'Marlene on the Wall' while wandering round a clothes shop in my hometown. Fortunately, they were playing the radio so I found out who the song was by, left the clothes shop, and went a few doors up the road to WHSmiths where I bought the album, on tape because I didn't have a record player of my own, so would only be able to play it in my bedroom if I got the tape. And then I listened to it a lot.

When I first saw the meme, I thought that it would be tricky one. And then that album just sprang into my mind. I've been having earworms of it all weekend, and I think I've just been prompted to get the CD next week.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Her last album (unless she's made another since) is Songs in Red and Grey; it's extremely depressing (all about the break-up of her marriage) and extremely good.

For years I only had the eponymous album as a tape copy I'd done of a tape I'd borrowed from the local library. The quality must have been awful. It was one of the first CDs I got, when I finally got a CD player, as a student. I think it's worth having on CD, tho' sorry for springing an earworm on you!

I bought my first Aimee Mann album on the strength of hearing a single song, on The Chart Show or something like that. It was Save Me, on the soundtrack album of Magnolia.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

No apologies needed for the earworm - it's been a very pleasant one.

[communicator.livejournal.com]

Good question. Probably 'Different Class' by Pulp.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Does that have 'Common People' on it?

[communicator.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, one of my favourite singles ever

[temeres.livejournal.com]

'Penis Envy' by Crass. Some of which is crap. But a proportion of anything I do is inevitably crap.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I don't know this at all - any clips online anywhere?

[manna]

Film in my head: The Last Seduction
TV show in my head: American Gothic

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I really must watch The Last Seduction, especially as I've had glitterboy1's DVD for ages.

[manna]

You really must. It's fabulous. In fact, go and watch it right now. Go on. Shoo!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Oh, now that was very good.

[manna]

Isn't it just? The first time I watched it I was steeling myself for the moment when her plan would fall apart even though it was brilliant, or she'd have a last-minute change of heart, because that's just what happens to femme fatales. But no! She rides off in her limo, and you just know that a quarter of a million won't keep her happy for very long and then some other poor hapless random will get screwed over. Ahh.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'm particularly dopey at the moment, but when I finally twigged what her plan was, I yelled out loud. They really did tease that it would fall apart right up to the last minute!

[manna]

They really did tease that it would fall apart right up to the last minute!

I love the way that all the way though it looks like something is going wrong, or her resolve is weakening, but that every time it just turns out it's another bit of nefariousness.

Also, I really like the happy chirpy soundtrack. All evil needs cheerful background music.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Yes, the soundtrack was great!

[kerravonsen]

I don't know how to answer this... is it supposed to represent who I am, what I like, or what? Because I couldn't pick just one album, really...

It would probably be a concept album in the styles of Michael Card, Chris deBurgh, Alan Parsons or Eric Woolfson, ELO, Iona or Clannad or Eden's Bridge, with a dash of Manhatten Transfer. In other words, Celtic, electronic, orchestral, with lots of vocal harmonies, and the contents would be probably very fantasy/SF with a Christian worldview.

Totally impossible to make, of course.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I don't know how to answer this... is it supposed to represent who I am, what I like, or what? Because I couldn't pick just one album, really...

Which album comes closest to the soundtrack in your head. If it's more than one album - or a fusion of many - that's just as interesting an answer.