Monday, June 6, 2011

Music Monday 6/6

Morning, everyone!  Hope you all had a good weekend.  We did...went to a neighborhood block party, enjoyed some good beer and good company, and I got my hair did (ha ha) so there's no white peeking through when I head for New York at the end of the month.  It's so annoying to be going white at this age.  Thank you, genetics.  I'm so excited for RWA this year!  I even got on the elliptical last night!  Those of you who've been around for a while know about my love/hate struggle with exercise.  I was doing great with the P90X thing until a couple kids went down with pneumonia earlier in the spring.  Haven't managed to get back on that yet, but I will.  Just...not yet.  It takes an hour and a half every night that I don't quite have right now, but the elliptical I can do...if you saw the dresses I've got lined up for the conference, you would totally understand the need for this:-)  I'm so psyched I've got my iPhone now, it'll be way easier to take pictures.

Anyway, this is Music Monday, and I do have a song for you!  This is one I played a LOT while mulling all things Dark Dynasties, and I think it's a great song for Ty and Lily.  You should know I'm a Duran Duran fan from way back...my parents had Seven and the Ragged Tiger on vinyl and I played that thing OUT.  I'm so glad to see them back in such great form.  Anyway, check out Before the Rain, and have a great one!

7 comments:

  1. Your *parents* had that on vinyl? Oh man, I am old.

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  2. I love the song! It does scream Lily and Ty

    I'm still trying to figure out the work out thing, it isn't working so well for me. I think I just need to get a gym membership and go to classes a few times a week. I think that might me my only motivation. ugh I hate gyms!

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  3. LMAO, Cate...nooo, you're not old! But, um, yeah, I was like eight or nine. I still thought they were hot:-)

    Hey Kristina! Glad you like it, I love this song. I wish you luck with the work out thing. Every time I think I've finally gotten in the habit, I find something else to do. My problem is just a fundamental dislike of exercise. I'm not sure how to get over that!

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  4. I love Duran Duran's old stuff and I am old-but vinyl, really? I have CDs of their older stuff, but no records-I guess I didn't really find them till early 90's. When exactly did music stop coming out on vinyl anyway? Curious.

    It's a great song...will have to check into it!

    And I don't even want to talk about exercise.

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  5. Hey Lisa! Well, Seven and the Ragged Tiger came out in '84...I was seven. Seems like that was shortly before mom started buying everything on cassette, but I could be wrong. And I remember getting really excited about my first CD player in, hmm, '91? But it took a while for the cassettes to really be phased out, and my player was a combo deal. I made a lot of mix tapes during that fabulously angsty (ugh) time in my life. They still make vinyl, but it's more of a novelty now, and some DJs use it. Glad you like the song! LOL about the exercise. Me either, really. But the skirt on one of those dresses says otherwise!

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  6. I was working in a record store (and driving my coworkers crazy by playing Duran Duran over the store speakers) when cassettes finally outsold vinyl. It was only a few years more before CDs took over. I let my vinyl collection go long ago, but I once had it all from DD...including some 45s on the original Harvest label. Probably worth a mint on eBay now. Oh well!

    Homemade mix tapes were one of my favorite was to enjoy the full-day drive home from college. I've kept a few, even though I have nothing to play them on anymore...

    Nick was my favorite long ago, though I might I lean toward Simon now.

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  7. On yeah I will go to RWA! *Shakes fist* LOL. I have a love/hate relationship with exercise too. If it's not a fun exercise I don't want to do it lol.

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