Wednesday, April 22, 2009

What is this garbage I listen to?

The other day on the way home from work I decided to start listening to CDs again.  I was thumbing through my CD book in the car and I came across a burned CD that had no name written on it.  I've never not written the album/artist information so I was confused, but the CD was the brand we have at home so I knew I must have done it.  Inquisitively I popped the CD in the player and listened.  I went through every song and I couldn't figure out 1) what is this horrendous music? 2) what could possibly have possessed me to burn this?  I often will burn a CD for one song so I desparately skipped through tracks searching in vain for that one song to no avail.  As I listened to snippets of each song I was able to glean a few key pieces of information: the band was British, the production style set it in the mid 60s, the production style even felt vaguely like the Beatles early work, and the band was no one that I could easily recognize from early 60s Britain (ie the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, etc.).  Today in the office I brought the CD in for the moment of discovery as I would determine what this mystery CD was.  The answer: Piper at the Gates of Dawn by Pink Floyd.  Funny enough this album is very highly regarded and considered by some to be visionary.  I was impressed that I was able to nail the time period and country.  Even more impressive to me was that I was able to pick out that the producer was the original recording engineer for the Beatles for all their albums until Rubber Soul.  Now I know why I burned this album and I guess I'll give it another shot. 

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