Wil Wheaton had a nice post talking about music and discovering the full length album version of In A Gadda Da Vida (all 17 minutes of it) for the first time recently. I can’t share in that particular revelation, as I was already familiar with those epic organ and drum solos – Dad has/had the album and we definitely spent some time enjoying the “back catalog” over the years. Worth a listen if you haven’t, though!
It got me thinking a bit about this fantastic bit from Joe Pera Talks With You:
There’s something great about just earnestly loving a song, and letting yourself get swallowed by it for a while. Also, that even if you think everyone already knows a song or movie or book, there’s still so, so many people who’ve never heard of it before. I don’t watch reaction videos very often, but sometimes it really tickles me to watch reaction videos of someone hearing a song for the first time, when it actually hits them and they’re left saying “Wow, how did I miss this?”
On that note: some recent earworms to infect/enjoy:
I do still have that album! And I think I also have the LP as well as the CD. I’ll have to go look.
I have this on the mix CD in the car, right next to The Court of the Crimson King.
Good memories!