As posted by me at RevGals:
Happy Friday to you all!
The sad news of Michael Jackson's untimely death has me thinking about music and its effects on us - individually, as cultures, as generations. Let's think about the soundtracks of our lives...
1) What sort of music did you listen to as a child - this would likely have been determined or influenced by your parents? Or perhaps your family wasn't musical...was the news the background? the radio? Singing around the piano? My mom listened to a lot of Peter, Paul, and Mary; also Christian music by the Fisherfolk (came out of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in the late 60's and early 7o's; we went there some). I still listen to both!
2) Going ahead to teenage years, is there a song that says "high school" (or whatever it might've been called where you lived") to you? Almost anything by The Cars..."Let the Good Times Roll" always gets the radio turned up loud! "Candy-O" - "You're All I've Got Tonight" - "Just What I Needed" - I could go on!
3) What is your favorite music for a lift on a down day? (hint: go to www.pandora.com and type in a performer/composer...see what you come up with!) Something from high school...usually the Go-Go's, the Cars, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Devo; or the Grateful Dead. Right now I'm listening to the Cat Stevens channel on Pandora.
4) Who is your favorite performer of all time? Wow, this is a hard question to answer! What made me ask it? I guess The Beatles and The Indigo Girls and.....okay, that's enough.
5) What is your favorite style of music for worship? I like a mixture of hymns and what I think of as "praise music" - what we used to play in Folk Mass when I was a kid.
Bonus if you include a video of any of the above!
