Just a brilliant list. But also such an obvious but brilliant observation at the beginning ... we don't give music as Holiday gifts the way we used to. Not too many years, my son (who is 44 years old now) would give me a list of the CDs he wanted. I miss that ... but I still have this kind of experience. I picked him up at Dulles Airport last night (he was flying back from a weekend with a preschool friend who now lives in LA). As we drove back to his home in Fairfax, Virginia, we talked about the songs we heard on the Spectrum on Sirius XM. We can still bond over music ... it's just in different ways these days.
thanks for the kind words. it did feel a bit too obvious quoting that slogan from endless stickers on records and CDs. as I thought about it, I came to realize that what bonds us is the exchange of the music itself, that's the "currency" that we carry into so many conversations. not the plastic discs! I'm grateful to have had that growing up (in NoVa actually, I went to Langley HS and shopped constantly at Penguin Feather in Vienna), and grateful to be able to have those conversations still.
Tom, I knew that you grew up in these parts from having worn out a copy of your 1,000 RECORDINGS TO HEAR BEFORE YOU DIE. I gave copy of that book to my son a few years ago ... and have replaced my paper copy (which I still have actually) with a Kindle copy.
thanks for that! and apologies that the e-book version is so primitive. wanted it to offer links to music where possible but in 2008 that was too much mountain to scale.
Just a brilliant list. But also such an obvious but brilliant observation at the beginning ... we don't give music as Holiday gifts the way we used to. Not too many years, my son (who is 44 years old now) would give me a list of the CDs he wanted. I miss that ... but I still have this kind of experience. I picked him up at Dulles Airport last night (he was flying back from a weekend with a preschool friend who now lives in LA). As we drove back to his home in Fairfax, Virginia, we talked about the songs we heard on the Spectrum on Sirius XM. We can still bond over music ... it's just in different ways these days.
thanks for the kind words. it did feel a bit too obvious quoting that slogan from endless stickers on records and CDs. as I thought about it, I came to realize that what bonds us is the exchange of the music itself, that's the "currency" that we carry into so many conversations. not the plastic discs! I'm grateful to have had that growing up (in NoVa actually, I went to Langley HS and shopped constantly at Penguin Feather in Vienna), and grateful to be able to have those conversations still.
Tom, I knew that you grew up in these parts from having worn out a copy of your 1,000 RECORDINGS TO HEAR BEFORE YOU DIE. I gave copy of that book to my son a few years ago ... and have replaced my paper copy (which I still have actually) with a Kindle copy.
thanks for that! and apologies that the e-book version is so primitive. wanted it to offer links to music where possible but in 2008 that was too much mountain to scale.