I’ve been writing about the Academy Days for a while now and I’m having that nagging format question pop up again. It seems that I’m just going through my Academy Days music album by album. Is that boring? Here’s what is happening behind the scenes. I’m at my computer with my Windows Media Player running. I have created several playlists that hold the music of my various eras. I’ve spent some time tagging my albums so that they fall into the proper lists. Right now i’m listening to the Candy-O album by The Cars. This was originally one of the factory cassettes of that time. I want to include a few tracks to give you the flavor of the music so that you can see how I hopped from stone to stone along the way. Is there a better way to share this with you? As was the case with nearly every cassette and album that I acquired while at the Academy, I played them over and over eventually becoming intimate with each song on the album. I can’t think of any song on any of these albums that I didn’t like. Granted some I like a lot less and some a lot more. As I listen to them now, I can’t help but feel that warm nostalgic sentamentalism for them as they remind me of some excellent moments in my life.
What you’re reading now is and has been 1st drafts. I don’t write and edit. I simply sit here and express myself with my poor typing skills trying to keep up. Occasionally I go back and fix horrendous spelling errors or clarify something grammatically. It isn’t like writing a novel. I’m not developing a story arc or evolving characters. I’m not reviewing music as a critic. I’m just trying to document what I was listenining to at the time and add details if I have any. After all the point is to try to understand how I got here in terms of my musical tastes.
As for Candy-O I can’t think of why I selected it from that Columbia House catalog. Maybe that is really the source of this feeling. Here is an album, my first Cars album and I have no idea why I should have it. Maybe it was the Alberto Vargas cover.
Let’s Go
It’s All I Can Do
Double Life
Candy-O
Got A Lot On My Head
Dangerous Type