Times have changed ( Archived) (291)

I often listen to music in my car, or in my home, while I am going through the motions of being a domestic Goddess. Music really helps set the mood for me. If I find I need to change my mood, I simply change CDs. I am certain my next door neighbours will forgive the need for me to share the tunes with them. So yes, I like to listen to it loud...WHEN I am alone.

What I can thank the internet for is the introduction to musical talent that I may never have had the opportunity to listen to. Many years ago, there were a group of girls that would chat in a Yahoo room that I would go into ... ( I know... the infamous Yahoo chat rooms of old) we used to share music through a program called Cheetachat. Without that exposure I may never have discovered Dave Matthews. I had to own his CD "Crash" after hearing him, and at the time, the country town I lived in just didn't have any of his music... I had to order it in. With time, my music experience has changed and now with YouTube, you can experience music that you simply didn't have at your fingertips when you were teenagers. We were exposed to popular radio music, which was quite limited.

I have become a fan of ordering music CD's online It's like Christmas going to my front door and discovering a parcel I had forgotten I ordered weeks earlier.I couldn't obtain a CD anywhere else, so I ordered the CD and paid dearly for it months ago. They sent me another CD to promote another artist. I have now been introduced to Malea Mc Guinness ... I am going to share the song here. But I would love to hear how the internet has impacted your exposure to music.

http://www.youtube.com/user/MaleaMusic?blend=22&ob=5#p/u/3/gfLjQnPYQJU

(My apologies for the quality of the music video, I could not find one better on Youtube, although for a better link, I suggest this )

When you fall you're not alone, where you go someone will follow
In these times that make you stronger, there is a message when it's all over
So time will be your friend, it will help you start again

I've been on the edge, but I don't let go
I was lost for so long, but time will always show
You're not alone, time will always show

Too proud too bend, too poor to break
You've weathered all the storms that they can make
And you laugh so hard to keep from crying
There's something in you that can't give up trying

So time will be your friend, It will help you start again

I've been on the edge, but I don't let go
I was lost for so long, but time will always show you're not alone
Time will always show oh yeah yeah, time will always show

You hang within an inch of your life, You are fighting just to survive
Hope is close but yet so far away..hey,hey,hey
I've been on the edge, but I don't let go
I was lost for so long, but time will always show


They think they've won, I know you and they don't know you're not alone
Ooh that time will always show

Hello John,

Your examples of these changes are brilliant. We live in a world where we have better access to music than we ever did. I still recall as a teenager that boom boxes were all the rage. The fact that you could put batteries into these bulky boxes and then head outside , hang with friends and listen to music was brilliant... of course it evolved to the portable CD player and now the Ipod's ... making music even more accessible. I was at a party last year where they used an amplifier to share someone's Ipod music... and I really enjoyed that. Often I feel with ipods that only the listener gets to enjoy the music.

There is no doubt that you are more experienced in the area of music than I am... I can simply make my own observations based on my limited knowledge. It seems for me that just when I fall in love with a new artist , another one arrives ... I wonder if one day they will find me as an old lady , passed away quietly amongst a huge pile of CDs and books. That might be a perfect finale for me.

Which is why we have artists like Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart, Jimmy Barnes, Tina Turner still out there rocking their stuff. I love how occasionally they have re-unions and these big names get together, or for the sake of charity. I am not sure you are familiar with Jimmy, so I thought I would share a clip... He is big here.



I don't recall the 8 tracks by the way, I do remember record players... and being told that we had to stop 'jumping' around them. And of course, my brother used to play Kiss constantly on his. Which was a huge difference from Dad's country and Mum's opera.

YouTube's impact on me personally has been anything but free... I order music more now than I ever have at any point in my life. Yesterday alone I received another five CD's on my doorstep. I believe in supporting the artist, and of course, it gives me a brilliant choice to listen to in my car, or in my home.

I can imagine as a musician you look through the last few years and see all the fine tuning in the industry... but that has to be exciting, being inside and seeing the mechanisms churning.

Hello again John,

Recently Australia upgraded it's television networks across the country... with that I had to upgrade my television and the free TV gave us more channels. To put this in perspective, we had five channels locally before the change. After the change, one of my favorite moments was finding the old TV shows, Happy Days being one of them!! ( Of course, there was also "Are you being served", "Bewitched"... many of the shows that I hadn't seen since I was a child)

One of the guys at work was recently telling me that he has a juke box in his home...Now that sounds like a brilliant idea!