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The term "Soundtrack of my Youth" has cropped up a lot lately and listening to the many tracks and bands that make up my personal soundtrack led me to ponder the subject of my current favourites. I certainly have a more eclectic mix of music that I listen to nowadays than I did in my younger years, when the earliest tracks I'd listen to were recorded in the sixties. In those days, classical music was something my Mother listened to and I wouldn't be caught dead with it on my turntable. I was a teen in the Seventies and a 20-something mother in the 80's, and I'm not sure my taste in music matured much past the favoured rock bands I spent so much time and money following. Some bands I, and my friends, saw so often live that we were referred to as "Standard Equipment"... amongst other things, I'm sure.
In the nineties, I married and had two more children, and much of the music of that decade passed me by. Other than Take That, who I'd been a fan of in the few years before I married, most of the music I did hear bored me to tears.
During the last decade, my cd collection has expanded along with my taste in music. Some of my favourites have been on my playlist for years... U2, for instance, are firmly positioned exactly where they were so many years ago, right at Number one. I have seen them live four times and it's only that fact that makes missing this current tour of Australia a tad easier to bear. Matchbox20 and Rob Thomas as a solo artist are there also. My eldest daughter told me once during the late Nineties that they were too grungy and I wouldn't like them, so it took me some time to realise just how much I did actually enjoy their music. I've seen Rob live but am still waiting to witness Matchbox20 on stage. There's the BoDeans, who I saw live three nights in a row in the late 80's and rediscovered sometime in the Noughties. There's Take That, who I never saw live but am still hoping, given their resurrection tour is selling out all over Europe. Noiseworks are an old favourite, and I cannot count the live performances I've seen there.
In my collection I also have classical artists such as IlDivo, Russell Watson and Susan Boyle. I love to listen to them, whether they sing in Italian or English, It helps that they are all extremely handsome... in SuBo's case, it doesn't matter that she's not.
New to my list is Powderfinger. I only discovered a liking for their music earlier this year, when watching Max Music on pay tv while writing on my days off. "Burn Your Name" was frequently in the Top Ten @ 10 and I first noticed the beautiful film clip with all the floating candle lanterns, then noticed Bernard Fanning's beautiful voice, closely followed by his equally beautiful smile. A few more listens led me to the CD section after work one day, where I bought the Golden Rule CD... and the story ends with me attending a concert on their recent farewell tour, on my own, no less, making my first live Powderfinger experience also my last.
Muse is another new discovery, mostly due to my Twilight Tragic status. I don't have any of their albums yet, but I have all the Twilight Saga soundtracks so far. Yes I'm going to miss their concert tour this month too. The tragedy of paying a mortgage with a too-small income. I told everyone I didn't want to grow up but it seems to have happened anyway.
Anyway, I'm a lot like that mother on that car ad, who turns the music up and locks the kids out. Only I'm more likely to have my windows open so everyone can share in my fabulous musical soundtrack. My kids actually like my music.
