Nostalgia has a strange way of making everything look prettier. For instance the music played on the UK 1940s Radio Station music and vintage radio shows from the 1920s 1930s 1940s seems to me to be more good than bad. However, the music played on current pop rock stations seems to me to be more bad than good. I wonder if, 50 years and four generations from now, the music of today will also have the same type of soothing, safe, perfect in the background appeal to future listeners.
I have to tell you how Amazon made me happy today. I am a guilty, reluctant consumer, so you must appreciate how big a thing this is for me to be free advertizing. Yes.
I subscribe to this blog JRock Explosion and on the most recent JRock Fridays post I was introduced to Bananafish. Instantly impressed by the talents of each and every instrument and how they fit together fantastically in deceptive pop style, I wanted some more. I’m used to looking all over for international musics and have ordered CDs from far and wide (why doesn’t amazon-japan have an mp3 store?). So, can you believe how crazy surprised to find out that amazon-us had Bananafish mp3 albums for purchase?!? Holy cannoli, I’m shopping!