________________________________________Music and Art__________________________________________
I've come to realize that I do indeed have a "drug habit" - listening to music. When I listen to music while working on my computer, it keeps me emotionally awake and artistically stimulated so I won't go into a creative doldrum. The best thing about this addiction is that I can experience them as many times as I want. CD's like Bob Dylan: Live 1966, David Bowie: Low, and Miles Davis: Kind of Blue are sonic narcotics for me. Rather than merely entertain, they change my mind, alter my perceptions, expand my mind, emotions, and ideas - and completely without real drugs. Understand: you need a beat to keep dancing - same goes for making art. Before I get started working on art or writing, I select my music for whatever fits my state of mind and emotion. Music is my creative fuel to creating doing creative work for long periods of time.
My Favorite Links
Here are my Undergraduate Art School Song Dub Collections. They tell their own stories while expressing what I was feeling emotionally at the time. Enjoy...:
Empathy Music Collections #1: Prince: "The Question of U", Bob Dylan: "Lay Lady Lay", Ennio Morricone: "Once Upon a Time in America"/ "Deborah's Theme"/ "The Falls", Neil Young: "Philadelphia", Pink Floyd: "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2"/ "Goodbye Blue Sky"/ "Run Like Hell", Genesis: "Ripples", Christopher Cross: "Arthur's Theme", Henry Mancini: "Moon River", John Lennon: "Imagine" (rehearsal), John Lennon: "Real Love", The Beatles: "When I Fell", Louis Armstrong: "What a Wonderful World", Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan with Eddie Vedder: "The Face of Love", Stanley Myers: "Cavatino", John Lennon: "Grow Old With Me"/ "Oh My Love", Don Henley: "Sunset Grill", Talking Heads: "Heaven", Nino Rota: "What Is a Youth", The Beatles: "Julia", John Barry: "Theme from 'Midnight Cowboy'", "Theme from 'A Summer Place'", Sinead O' Connor: "Sacrifice".
Empathy Music Collections #2: The Beach Boys: "The Warmth of the Sun"/ "In My Room"/ "Don't Worry Baby", The Beatles: "Strawberry Field Forever" (Demo)/ "Across the Universe" (demo alternate version), Righteous Brothers: "You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin'"/ "Unchained Melody", The Beatles: "We Can Work It Out", Procol Harum: "A Whiter Shade of Pale", Louis Armstrong: "We Have All the Time in the World", The Beatles: "Happiness is a Warm Gun"/ "I'm So Tired"/ "Yer Blues", Sinead O' Connor: "Mother", Genesis: "I Know What I Like", The Doors: "People Are Strange", Bob Dylan: "Masters of War", The Rolling Stones: "Ruby Tuesday", Carole King: "It's Too Late", Pachelbel: "Canon", Rachmaninoff: "Ahedte Cantalile", Barber: "Adagio for Strings", The Beatles: "Don't Let Me Down"/ "The Ballad of John and Yoko"/ "Blue Jay Way", The Cranberries: "When You're Gone"/ "Free To Decide".
Empathy Music Collections #3: Frank Sinatra: "My Way", The Rolling Stones: "Play with Fire", Led Zeppelin: "Kashmir", Elton John: "Someone Saved My Life Tonight", Harry Nilsson: "Everybody's Talkin'", George Michael: "Calling You", Tina Turner, "Private Dancer", Doobie Brothers: "It Keeps You Runnin'", The Beatles: "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"/ "Yes It Is", Nirvana: "I Hate Myself and I Want to Die", Neil Young: "Only Love Can Break Your Heart"/ "Birds", Bruce Springsteen: "Hungry Heart"/ "The River", Yoko Ono: "Why?".
Empathy Music Collections #4: Fleetwood Mac: "Tusk", Harry Nilsson: "Me and My Arrow", B.J. Cole: "Sleepwalk", Sheryl Crow: "If It Makes You Happy", Don Henley: "Dirty Laundry", Buffalo Springfield: "Expecting to Fly", The Beatles: "Help!", Queen: "Bohemian Rhapsody", The Beatles: "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", George Harrison: "Give Me Love", Neil Young: "Harvest Moon", George Harrison: "My Sweet Lord", Neil Young: "Don't Let It Bring You Down", Bjork: "Hyper-ballad" (Cover the Edge mix), The Muppets: "Rainbow Connection"/ "Movin' Right Along".
Empathy Music Collections #5: Neil Young: "Sample and Hold"/ "Transformer Man", Todd Rundgren: "I Saw the Light", Bruce Springsteen: "Hungry Heart" (Live), Kate Bush: "Wuthering Heights", Neil Young: "Rockin' in the Free World", The Yardbirds: "You're a Better Man Than I", Vince Guaraldi Trio: "Linus and Lucy", Depeche Mode: "I Feel You", The Stone Roses: "I Wanna Be Adored", John Lennon: "Gimme Some Truth", XTC: "Dear God", The Smashing Pumpkins: "The Beginning is the End", Ennio Morricone: "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", Underworld: "Born Slippy".
Empathy Nostalgia Music Collections #6: Jerry Goldsmith: "Gremlins Theme", Erik Satie: "1st Gymnopedie", Julian Lennon: "Too Late For Goodbyes", Sheryl Crow: "The Na-Na Song"/ "Run, Baby, Run", "Leaving Las Vegas soundtrack" excerpts of dialogue and jazz, Bob Cabert: The Winds of War", B.J. Thomas: "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head", Pearl Jam: "Wishlist", Beastie Boys: "Intergalactic"/ "Remote Control"/ "Song for the Man", Richard Strauss: "Also Sprach Zarathustra", George C. Scott/ Patton opening dialogue, Jerry Goldsmith: "Patton", Tammy Wynette: "I Don't Wanna Play House", Neil Young: "Roll Another Number", The Allman Brothers Band: "Whipping Post".
