Sunday, March 20, 2011

Day thirteen

My favorite band or artist.
I don't know that I have one. Does everyone say that these days? Too few die-hards and loyalists, everyone likes a little bit of everything and it changes all the time. Maybe that's not true. But it seems true.
Anyway, I am one of those. If my tastes don't often change it's because I don't listen to music that often. Constants in my life are musicals and folk: the music of my childhood.
But there still are many in those genres I enjoy.

In later high school (right before he wound up on The Garden State soundtrack which nearly ruined the whole thing for me) I heard Pink Moon on a commercial and fell in love with the music of Nick Drake.

I found out who the song belong to and searched all over town for every album of his I could find, I now have every one. I listen to Pink Moon least, but it is still my favorite.
His music makes me feel happy and sad at the same time, and I can't always listen to it, only in certain moods. But I have been listening to it consistently since that commercial nearly a decade ago and I love it as much as I did then.

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