Ok. So I am coming up on my one year anniversary of marriage. I love my husband. A lot. His name is Mihkel. He is one of the most interesting people I have ever talked to. And the good news is we still talk after almost a year together! He is completely different than anyone else I know: he has a huge beard and long hair, yet he dresses in suites. He loves brown beans on mashed potatoes, yet he also enjoys a fresh date stuffed with Roquefort and smoked almonds. He sometimes wears plaid jackets with Camper shoes; I have seen him chug a lucky lager and at a later date savour a Trappist Ale. He is a walking dichotomy. You see, his approach to life has been something new for me. He fits in with the average crowd (almost), yet enjoys a world of total individuality. He absolutely loves the finest quality of everything in life, yet is the furthest thing from being a snob. Not a snob except when it comes to one thing of course: Music.
So this brings me to why I am writing this. His second love is music (I am assuming, of course that I, and our son, are his first love...take THAT MUSIC!). His passion for this has not only inspired me to explore genres that I now love, but would have passed by had it not been for him. I also learned about new music out of necessity: car rides with him would become WAY longer if I insisted on listening to Rhianna. An example of something I would have missed? Nick Cave. I am almost embarrassed to admit I had never heard of him not too long ago. Now I wake up singing "Sail your Ships Around Me," I know that Nick is from Australia, and was in an awesome band called The Birthday Party, he has a totally rad instrumental record by the Dirty Three, and is now in a band that we recently saw together called Grinderman. In fact I almost feel Nick and I know each other on a personal level, like we were neighbours as kids or something. Mihkel has an exceptionally good memory for details, and he has passed on to me a portion of that. Except I seem to recall the really random useless information, but I suppose that is why we are together, opposite attracting and whatnot. He being a musical god almighty, and me being "was is on key THAT time?"
So him being a MGA, he has an ever growing record collection. And me being a discordant follower, I really want to know him on that level. I want us to meet in the heavens of 180 gram vinyl and kiss amongst the stacks of coloured special releases. So here is my goal: one by one, I will randomly choose and listen to one of the albums in his collection. I will then pound out my own personal review, and eventually Mihkel and I will share what he already has: the total confidence of knowing exactly what he likes and not being afraid to show it or impart with that knowledge. And then we will kiss amongst the vinyl.
which vinyl are you gonna start with??
ReplyDeleteI hope he has "Rumors".
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ReplyDeleteJust wanted to correct something here. Nick Cave is not a member of the Dirty Three. Warren Ellis is. He is the violinist in the Bad Seeds, guitar,violin, bazouki, percussion and misc. in Grinderman and works with Cave on many a soundtrack.
I am excited to see what you pull from the shelves too. It won't be Rumours as oddly enough I do not own a copy.Not that I don't like the album,just never got around to picking it up.
Ok. Right. Nick Cave is not a member of Dirty Three, perhaps he is just too clean. Warren Ellis is. Even if you did own Rumors I don't think that would be what I would choose, as my attempt here is to learn more about music, not revisit what I already know.
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