I (large heart) music... and Mrs. Major Tom

I love music-- I make it, I buy it (yes, buy!), I read about it, I analyze how it's made, I wonder who likes what and why... I like to hear how songs came about, the history of music, and what the next development is; I read the credits on CD covers, I know the names of critics; I'm curious about new technology related to it (hello iPhone!), and blah blah blog.So I'm happy mog came along, because I can now put down some thoughts. (Though not always coherent nor carefully-edited, due to time constraints). So I'll be putting out some anecdotes, thoughts, lyrics, stories behind songs (mine and other people's), etc. for anyone else who happens to (large heart) music.So... first anecdote:When I bought the album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) by David Bowie back in the day I thought it sucked the first five or six times I played it. But I'd spent my money so I was going to keep playing it. And then about the seventh or eighth time it was on, I began to like it, and then of course I eventually loved it. I remember listing to Ashes to Ashes over and over again, with that haunting line "My Momma said to get things done, You better not mess with Major Tom..." But I did mess with Major Tom. More on that in a sec.I'd always loved sad songs and especially laments (you know, those songs where the sailor is lost at sea and the lover is standing on the shore waiting for them to come home)-- and songs like Song to the Siren by This Mortal Coil (with Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins fame on vocals) and Into Dust by Mazzy Star and Casimir Pulaski Day by Sufjan Stevens and Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush and The Twilight Hour by The The, and Black Swan by Thom Yorke and History Song by The Good the Bad and the Queen, and That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore by the Smiths, and Nightporter by Japan and... seems to me sad songs are timeless and you can listen to them longer (years) and not get tired of them (like, say Galang by M.I.A., which I love but stopped listening to a few months after getting it).I also have always found the idea of response-songs (especially in dancehall and some early hip hop, where the topic is the same, but the lyric is from a different perspectice, and sometimes the same beat/music is used) and revisionist stories (like say the re-telling of the Wizard of Oz tale in the book Wicked) fascinating...So on my second release, Adieu Shinjuku Zulu, (recorded under the name K.I.A.) all these came together in the song Mrs. Major Tom. It continues the story that started in Space Oddity, then in Ashes to Ashes, then in Major Tom (by Peter Schilling)... but now told from the perspective of the wife left at home. (It's sung very beautifully by Larissa Gomes.) Check it out online, at iTunes, etc. (and it's own revision/redo/remix, Nevermine, on the Sonorous Susurrus CD by K.I.A.)"Mrs.Major Tom at iTunes":http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=5126742&s=143441Oh, and if anyone wants to recommend some good-sad, (not sappy-sad), songs, please do...