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Yesterday morning, my son and I were hanging out while he was getting ready for school. I was playing music, as I find it helps him get moving in the morning. I usually try to pick happy up-tempo stuff, and to be honest it gets me moving, too. He was sitting at the breakfast bar, and he looked up and asked me a question.
“Why do you listen to the same music the girls like?”
Me: who do you think introduced it to them? (Imagine Dragons was playing)
Him: You should listen to old lady music.
Me: Like?
Him: I don’t know. Opera or something.
Me: *Plays Ride of the Valkyries*
Then, as I often do with the funny things kids say, I put it up on facebook. To my amusement, it rapidly took off, with friends giving me suggestions for old lady music that would rock the Little Man’s socks. By evening, I knew that the best way to organize them and preserve it was to create a playlist, and blog about it.
Music plays a big part of our life. I can’t make music, but my daughters do: the Eldest is an amazing trumpet player, and the Otaku Princess plays clarinet and percussion. The girls are constantly listening to music, and will often invite me to listen when they discover a new artist. Recently it’s been Twenty-one Pilots, and a Norwegian group called Kaizers Orchestra (try this out for a sample of that one).
I write to music – I fully anticipate that the playlist of Old Lady Music will help the words flow freely. I’ve got quite the collection of music… but most of it is on an old computer. These days, I use my prime music, or youtube. The ability to have a loosely related playlist of music I’m in the mood for is really nice. I have to be careful and not fall down the rabbit hole of picking songs out… so playlists like this one are great to click and go with.
Feel free to add suggestions in the comments, and I’ll add them to a Part II playlist!
Click here to see the full list, or on the photo to start playing it.
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6 responses to “Old Lady Music”
My role in music is to be an audience member. Those who have heard my singing will heartily approve of my choice.
I can see that my day is going to have more music than I thought!
Also by 2Cellos. Whole Lotta Love vs. Beethoven.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8yymm3DtVA
And when I checked the YouTube site, they have added more music!
Also take a look at The Harp Twins.
https://www.youtube.com/user/CamilleandKennerly/videos
A cover of Pipeline played on a traditional Korean instrument called (pause for spelling check) the gayageum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OogUINE3Tqo
There is so much music.
Thank you.
Thank you for the suggestions! I find that when I start talking music online, I find more new and wonderful things to listen to. As you say, there is so much! It’s glorious.
I’ve always written to music. For a period in the ’70s, I would listen to stuff that would pass for white noise to block out the environment — e.g., Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti. I took a mix tape to my sister’s wedding in ’87 that seemed to represent the best of MTV for 1984-85. When I started writing Xena fan fic, I started building a mental sound track. Here’s the current standing. Artist – song (album). Some are present for their contribution to mood. Others have been featured for one reason or another in stories — e.g. “Carey”. The David Lanz piece tells the story of a climactic scene in an unpublished novel. And so-forth.
Amanda Marshall – Believe in You (Tuesdays Child)
DollyTheme (1:20 edit of Amanda Marshall – Best of Me (Tuesdays Child))
Martina Mcbride – Happy Girl (Evolution)
Martina Mcbride – Be That Way (Evolution)
Joni Mitchell – Carey (Blue)
Sarah Mclachlan – Full of Grace (Surfacing)
Elton John – Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road)
Peter Frampton – It All Comes Down to You (Peter Frampton)
The Charlie Daniels Band – Mister DJ (Simple Man)
Procol Harum – Repent Walpurgis (Procul Harum)
Santana – Samba Pa Ti (Abraxas)
Chris Isaak – Wicked Game (Heart Shaped World)
Santana – Treat (Santana)
Sade – I Never Thought I’d See the Day (Stronger Than Pride)
Elton John – All the Girls Love Alice (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road)
Jewel – I Won’t Walk Away (This Way)
Amanda Marshall – Out of Bounds (Tuesdays Child)
Sade – Haunt Me (Stronger Than Pride)
Martina Mcbride – Still Holding On (Evolution)
Sade – Siempre Hay Esperanza (Stronger Than Pride)
David Lanz – The Setting of Two Suns – Skyline Firedance Suite (Skyline Firedance)
Sarah Mclachlan – Time (Afterglow)
Sarah Mclachlan – Possession (Fumbling Towards Ecstasy)
Sarah Mclachlan – Wait (Fumbling Towards Ecstasy)
Looks like a good list. i’ll have to set it up and listen! Thank you 🙂
I don’t have playlists, per se. I have a bunch of different stations I created on Pandora that I use depending on what feels right for the book I’m writing (Lumineers, Bush, Angry Girl Music, Howard Jones, Crowded House, Jazz, Rachmaninoff…) And when I get tired of Pandora’s ads, I hit the music on my computer where I’ve grouped songs by feel – happy, angry, etc. – and set it to random so I don’t get in a rut. (Imagine Dragons is on here somewhere.)
I like Amazon music for that, Pandora always irritated me – not the ads, that’s like listening to radio and I tune them out – because it would drift off the music I wanted and suddenly I’d be ‘what the heck am I listening to?!’
Every book demands different music. And inside the book, different moods (I needed tense, dramatic music the other day).