Yeah, writing about my night musings during the daytime…
I’m fighting sleep by looking through the music I have in Apple Music and seeing… my past in the music; being able to remember when a particular song came out on an album or a 45, what I was doing and what was going on around me.
Not for the first time, I see how… varied my taste in music has become; I’ve got music that ranges from Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra to some rap/hip-hop pieces that I like the beat to more than anything else and including some… country and western tunes from Brooks and Dunn that, as it turns out, is more like pop than C&W except for the occasional twang heard… but my musical likes are “all over the place” and my collection is heavy with R&B and Jazz.
I have songs in my library that I thought I’d never hear again; I grudgingly got to liking Apple Music because I wanted to fuck with the service and see if they really did have the music I’d want to listen to and, as it turns out, yeah, fuck – they do and if they don’t have it now, they’ll have it later and as I’ve seen so many times already.
I’m aided by the fact that I’m a musician and I have music running around in my head all of the time so it’s not unusual for me to hear the music in my head and it reminds me of a song that I haven’t heard since I was 16 and… I wonder if Apple has it? Oh, there it is! Damn it – I haven’t stumped the service for a long time and I’ve failed to do so in this instance. Click on it and it starts to play and… I remember.
Where I was; what I was doing; the sign of the times and back in a time where a song meant something and not just a bunch of words thrown together because they kinda/sorta rhyme and, for most of such music, there was no such animal as sampling or any of the technology we use today to produce music, which is still endearing to me since I had to learn how to play; I had to be taught the various disciplines that allow me to make music…
And to appreciate the music I listen to. Offhand, I can’t tell you how many songs are currently in my library; one of the things that pissed me off about Apple Music is when they took all of the music I had on my computer and stuck it in their fucking cloud – and there was so much music that I had ripped from CDs that didn’t make it into the cloud. I still have the CDs; I have a computer with a CD/DVD drive and, I think, a hard drive with enough space for me to rip every CD I have and, truthfully, that was the project I had been setting myself up to do when… Apple put my music in the cloud and excluded a lot of the music that resided on my hard drive…
And music that spanned almost the entirety of my life. From Bach to Boyz II Men and then some. I’m fighting sleep and I need to take my tired ass to bed but I’m… captivated by the music listed on the screen before me; I have the urge to get to WordPress so I can write down what I’m thinking and feeling but, nah, fuck it – I’m tired and I can do this in the morning and off to bed I go… with John “Cougar” Mellencamp’s “Wild Night” playing inside my head.
I found the song on Apple Music; what had me scratching my head was not knowing what made me think of the song to begin with – I hadn’t heard it since I fucked up and broke the single CD of the song… almost twenty years ago but now here it is and it’s making me crazy because I can hear the song in my head but my old ass is having a hard time remembering Mellencamp’s name. I stop thinking about this; the song is on repeat in my head and… I’m looking at an email I got when my brain said, “John “Cougar” Mellencamp!”
Ding, ding! Added the song to my library; clicked on it to play and I’m dancing sitting down and grooving to the beat that got my attention on the song in the first place – and the musician inside me remembers teaching myself the drum and bass parts… on my kit and with my bass guitar and making those around me cray-cray as I get deep into the music that lives inside of me and that I still keep adding to.
This got me to thinking about Mrs. Fever’s September Song blog that she does in September (duh), and I smile thinking that I hope she reads this because I know that she knows what this is like. And, oh, yeah, the title of this blog… is also the title of a song from back in the day…
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