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I give you the older, longer version of Law and Order.
What other theme songs are kickin' it?
I just had this idea based on MARIGOLD'S POST requesting information to help his music shopping as he travels across the country. I figure, if the inhabitants of the MOGiverse are like me, any out of town trip is viewed as a way to shop new and exciting music stores. However, knowing which are the best stores to go to can be difficult without inside information. So, what better people to ask than all the music addicts we talk to on a daily basis?
So here's the deal. If you are familiar with any good music stores, leave your knowledge in comments. I'm going to try and compile it all and make a post we can all check out when we take a trip.
Here's what I need:
the name of the music store
the city the store is in
what music media it sells (cds, vinyl, used cds and/or vinyl, cassetts, 8 track, reel to reel, whatever)
any specialty of the store (for example, Papa Jazz in Columbia, while carrying everything, specializes in jazz vinyl). This could be genre, artists, whatever.
Is it a chain? If so, do you know about more of the stores, or just this one in particular?
Anything else I might need to know about it?
I have no idea how to put this all together yet, so any ideas about that would be helpful, too. Obviously, this only works if I get a pretty good response, so bring it on!
(MOGgers from the rest of the world, sorry I didn't include you in this. If this works and we can generate a great list, maybe we can do another one for, say, stores for the rest of globe, or maybe someone else can try and get one together?
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Oh just rub it in why don't ya!?
We got jack around here... all the great independent stored died back about 4 years ago... (sigh...)
Not trying to do that, Eric. Although if no one else responds, at least I've accomplished something!
Seriously, nothing in the KC area at all?
Yeah, I know, just messin.
We got a couple of semi-independent stores... cd warehouse I think, but it's a small local, chain I think. It sucks 98%.
We used to have about three killer stores here in town and they all just went belly up in the last 3 or 4 years. One (Recycled Sounds) I used to frequent all the time and then a couple of years before they crashed, they changed the store hours to a closing time of... 19:00 or 18:30, either way when you get off of work @ 17:30 or 18:00 every night and ya got kids and stuff, it was darn near impossible to get over there and spend the hour or two I liked to take to browse the selections. (sigh) #:-( >
Just by chance, I did. And I was very pleased, too, because those are two musical acts I've heard a lot about on MOG but hadn't heard yet. Goldfrapp was on Jay Leno, and although I've heard snippets here and there this was the first time I got to hear a whole song. I couldn't tell you what song it was, but it was cool. Even cooler and more interesting was the visual aspect. The whole band was wearing white clothing/robes, etc (think Luke Skywalker in the original, if that helps). Some very flowery sorts of dancing going on, a guy playing key-tar (don't see a lot of those these days), and a great song made it very enjoyable. I think I'm going to have to go out and purchase something.
She and Him were on Conan. I've really been wanting to see and hear them because of Zooey Deschanel. I think she's a great actor, has been in several films I love, and seems like an all around interesting person. A fact that has to come through in her music, right?
What I was not expecting, however, was her voice. Where did that come from? It sounds nothing like her talking voice, which is a little on the whiny. nasal side IMO . Her singing voice, though, is very deep and sexy. The music was pretty good. Again, I couldn't tell you what song they played, but it was good. I'd listen to it again. Yo La Tengo was their backing band (is it always like that?). I was a bit annoyed by the fact that there were two drummers. Not that I have anythign against two drummers, but they played the same thing the whole song. Why? What's the point? But that's another post.
Anyway. Just curious if anyone out there watched this, and if there's anyone with more knowledge who can fill int he rather sizable gaps I left behind.
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Big Goldfrapp fan here....I'll have it to catch it over at youtube. She always makes sure her live performances have a theatrical touch :)
Here are some songs/videos for you to check out, if you feel like it.
Strict Machine
Ooh La La
Number One
And one from her new album {more folk this one}, called A&E.
The theatrical flavour I mentioned above is something she always carries with her, whether it's a live performance, or a music video or anything else. :)
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House.