Category: Music

…wtf?

My iPod is apparently possessed by the Ghost of Christmas Past, or something.

Whenever I purchased or burned new holiday songs, I made sure the genre was listed as “holiday” to make them all easier to find to take off the iPod/out of iTunes. When I added them to the iPod, I had a seperate playlist for just the holiday songs that it synced from, so I didn’t have to search through my main playlist. Last night, I edited that playlist and removed all of the Christmas-related songs from it. I synced up the iPod, and it clearly shows there’s only 767 songs on it now, about 230 songs LESS than there was one day ago. So, according to the number of songs, it synced up properly, and removed all the Christmas songs.

And yet, this morning? It keeps starting to play songs that are no longer on the iPod. Songs I removed. I’m more than a little freaked out, because I went through and deleted everything with a Christmas mention (I left one or two winter/snow non-Christmas songs, as well as New Years songs) out of the playlist, so I know they’re gone. Like I said, the iPod shows that it deleted 230 songs. I have no clue where these are coming from. I guess the iPod doesn’t want Christmas to be over with yet?

I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland

A lot of my memories are tied into music. I hear a song, and a flood of memories of times gone by fills my mind. Most of the time, I don’t mind. Most of the time.

Every now and then, that can be a curse. Case in point, the song “Black Water” by the Doobie Brothers. This song always brings up a memory of a tv show long gone past. What drives me crazy about it is that I can see the scene almost perfectly in my memory; yet I can’t for the life of me remember the name of the TV show, or any of the actors in it.

I think the central character of the show was a woman. Where she worked, there was this tall, bald, lanky guy. I desperately want to remember who he was — because while the show wasn’t that great, he cracked me up. Anyway, the scene as I remember it: the female lead was very upset (I half remember her being in the hospital in this scene, but I could be wrong on that detail), and the guys in the office were trying to cheer her up. One person started singing the end portion of “Black Water” and one by one other people joined in until they had all the layers of that part of the song. The bald guy started jumping and doing this little .. shimmy as he sang his part.

So that is the visual I get in my mind any and every time I hear “Black Water”. It’s going to drive me insane until I figure out what show that was, and who the bald guy was. I think it’s been almost 10 years now, so I’m beginning to resign myself to absolute frustration over that memory.

I have a dream, a song to sing

My mom informed me this morning that apparently, Robbie Williams is in talks to record with ABBA.

That… maybe kinda made me a little gleeful. I don’t care if anyone else thinks it’s cheesy, I love ABBA. They were a very big part of my childhood. I have so many memories associated with their music. I can remember my friends and I putting on concerts, lip-syncing along with the Super Trooper album. I also remember being outside at dusk with the record player, the Arrival album on. My parents and neighbors were playing bridge in the driveway, the light coming from the garage, and my best friend and I acting like cats, running all over the front yard when “Tiger” was on. (Did I mention I was very young at that point? Hah.)

To maybe get to hear new music from them makes me happy. Very happy. I hope Robbie pulls it off and this happens.

And speaking of ABBA and gleeful – I just might possibly have gotten a little giggle at the Corporate Business Meeting on Tuesday. They played ABBA’s “Take A Chance On Me” over the loud speakers while we were waiting for the meeting to start.