Music to (not) work by

GratefulFan wrote:

Every music nut knows being carried away by some great song when they're supposed to be doing something else.
What's yours, right now? And, if you like, what are you not doing?

"Gonna get inside yoooooou. Gonna get insiiiiiide - your bitter mind." I love you Pete!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCc_G-gIixA

This is a great song. I watch The Americans (check it out on FX if you haven't!) which takes place in 1981/1982, and they play a lot of great timely music (one was 'Slap and Tickle' by Squeeze, another was 'Tusk' by Fleetwood Mac) but the biggest surprise was hearing this song in a scene.

Definitely should have been on Face Dances, along with about half of Empty Glass.

GratefulFan wrote:

Thanks to you both for the links. Elton is an artist I should be ashamed of having only in the hits formats, plus Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (the song).

I'd recommend his output from between Madman on the Water/Tumbleweed Connection (I forget which comes first) to A Single Man, so about 1970ish to 1978. (A Single Man is very underrated, IMHO.) Everything after is kind of spotty and can be summed up with a Greatest Hits package, though he really started getting back into the process of making albums instead of singles around 1992 with The One. His recent stuff is fantastic, as well.

love "madman" and "capt fantastic" both cracking albums

currently listening to Hotel California album again - the whole disintegration theme is quite compelling
and "the last resort" is one of the finest songs (lyrically) that i ever heard. remember hearing it back in 77
as a 14 year-old and thinking how good it'd be to have a mind that could write that stuff.

slight divergence - was painting the garage floor last weekend - with Planet Rock blaring full volume
all i can say is looking at the walls now - it's easy to tell when the faster harder tunes came on the radio
- i blame MSG's - Attack of the Mad Axeman and Montrose's - Space Station No5 for a couple of bad paint splash incidents

I originally posted a blank comment as a mistake, but now I have something to say.

Thanks to someone on this thread http://www.queenzone.com/forums/1338657/best-double-album-ever.aspx I've been on a major Ayreon binge recently. Every time I do work on the computer I have one of Ayreon's many proggy rock operas playing as a soundtrack. Good stuff.