My Personal CD Collection, Music Favourites

Hi everyone, welcome back to Big Blog Theory, I hope you’re all doing well. Today, I thought I would talk about my love of psychical media, but most of all CDs. I’ve very recently started getting into collecting and listening to CDs. My parents have kept this little CD player that they had since the eighties or nineties and it still works and it still sounds pretty great considering how long they’ve kept it for. It’s been kind of fun learning how to use it and it’s kind of simple really, once you know your way around it. I also love records and vinyl.

CDs are so cool, I just love them. I listen to a lot of my music on Spotify but I’m getting turned on to the idea of CDs they are so much cooler, in my opinion. These past few weeks, I’ve been developing a little collection of CDs and music by certain artists, musicians and bands that I love. I mostly have a lot of Bob Dylan and Simon And Garfunkel at the moment considering they’re my two most listened to artists but I’m also discovering some others too.

They’re also very convenient. I love to take them with me wherever I go. It makes commuting a lot more bearable and fun for me, like when I’m on the bus. I’d just be listening to some Bob Dylan for the whole bus journey, it makes me so happy, everything slows down when music comes into play. Books and music can make anything seem bearable especially long bus journeys or if you’re commuting for a few hours at a time.

I thought I would like to talk about which CDs I have in my collection at this moment.

The first one I have is A Different Side Of Bob Dylan. This album I listen to every single day, it’s so good, it’s got to be one of my favourite Bob Dylan albums, every single song on the album is fantastic and interesting in its own way. I love the whole album in it’s entirety but I think my favourite songs featured on the album would have to be All I Really Want To Do, Black Crow Blues, Chimes Of Freedom, I Shall Be Free- no 10, I Don’t Believe You, Ballad In Plain D and It Ain’t Me, Babe. Really wonderful songs and I’m so glad I have this one in my collection. It’s one of those albums I just keep going back to, it really is wonderful in every sense of the word, it’s an absolute treat. The reason why I brought this album was just for one song that I loved and that was It Ain’t Me Babe but then I listened to the whole album and that way I found loads of other favourites so it just goes to show, one thing leads to another.

Another favourite I have is also by Bob Dylan, it’s called Bringing It All Home. It’s another absolute favourite Bob Dylan album, I’ve listened to this one so many times and I find I keep going back and listening to certain songs. Bob Dylan in his electric era, really wonderful. So many songs to enjoy and I think it’s time for me to go back and have another listen at some point.

Another favourite, also by Bob Dylan is Highway 61 Revisited. Another great album, one of my absolute favourite songs that is featured on this album is Like A Rolling Stone, that song always gets me, it’s crazy. God knows what Bob Dylan was thinking at the time he wrote that song, the lyrics are insane, very poetic. Definitely one of my favourite songs of his on any album. Blonde On Blonde is also another great album, I also have that in my collection.

Then, I’ve got three albums by Simon And Garfunkel, I’ve got Sounds Of Silence which is one of my personal favourite albums of theirs I’ve listened to it so many times, I think I’ve mentioned this on a blog post before. I’ve also got Bookends and Parsley, Sage Rosemary And Thyme. Fun fact, I can also read and write their names in Japanese. I’ve been learning Japanese since last year and I suddenly found that I can read Japanese writing which is just so cool. So I can write Simon And Garfunkel in Japanese and I can also read and write song titles in Japanese too such as Leaves That Are Green, Mrs Robinson, the album title Sounds Of Silence, The Boxer and A Most Peculiar Man which is so amazing. I look forward to what else I am able to do.

They’re all wonderful albums, I’m just so happy, I love having  these wonderful albums in my collection.

I’m also hoping to find a Herb Alpert CD some time soon. I love Herb Alpert, he was just wonderful, wasn’t he?l. This guy made playing the trumpet look easy and it’s really not, take it from me, I used to have trumpet lessons at school. I grew up listening to his music, my dad introduced me to him and he’s always been an absolute favourite in my household growing up. He was an American trumpet player and  a part of the Tijuana Brass group, he was just amazing. I watched the black and white 1967 BBC TV special with my dad and just from there on in, I became entranced. He was so charming, handsome and I just adored his smile, he was just so effortlessly cool the way he played the trumpet and his mannerisms and how he would just randomly smile whilst playing.

He was the one reason why I took up trumpet lessons at my old primary school, it was so hard but I did enjoy it I thought it was fun. One of the reasons I enjoyed it was because it got me out of playing cricket on Fridays, I used to hate playing cricket, I used to always come up with excuses just so I could not play cricket. So, the trumpet class was a saviour in that sense, that is, until they found out… then I had to play cricket every Friday whether I liked it or not!

I stuck to it for a couple of weeks and then I decided to give it up but my mum said I was good but I don’t really know. A lot of the time I was just driving my whole family insane and more or less the neighbours next door, it made an absolute racket. Then one day I was trying to find a way to make it a bit more quiet so we ordered a mute on Amazon thinking that would do the job but then I blew into the mouth piece, no sound came out it was muted completely. Oh my goodness, I felt like such a fool, it was really funny, I was like ” Oh forget it” and then I never picked it up again. And then obviously a few days before I left my primary school I had to give it back, so that was the end of that, but it was fun while it lasted, that’s for sure. Growing up I always had these music instrument phases, like first it was a toy trumpet I got when I was little as a birthday present, I used to put my entire mouth on the mouth piece until it was jammed halfway down my throat like a damn water bottle, then it was the recorder because we used to have recorder lessons at school, then it was the ukelele, then it was the piano, then it was the trumpet again, then it was the guitar, none of these ever materialised but they happened along the way. But now, I’m back to learning how to play the piano and I’m loving it. It just goes to show that you need to try new things to see which works and which things you enjoy the most in life. I think I would love to learn how to play the guitar but it’s really rather difficult. I think if I put time into it and practice more I probably can do it but it’s very difficult and very time consuming but it is a very beautiful instrument if played correctly.

But I always look back at my trumpet days at my old primary school very fondly, so thank you Herb Alpert! thanks for everything

I also think my dad and his friends met him back in the day, it was something to do with a record deal in some studio or other, I can’t remember the whole story but my dad said that he was really lovely which is just so cool. I’m definitely going to have to pull him up on that because it’s an interesting story. I will be writing a post about him some time next week so stay tuned for that.

 

Music is just wonderful, I don’t know where we’d all be without music. It just makes life a bit more bearable. I love that I can put my headphones on and listen to whatever it is I’m listening to, it just makes me so happy. I’m really going to have a blast listening to all these wonderful albums again.

That’s all for now, I hope you all liked this post, I hope you all have a wonderful day wherever you are right now. Love you guys, stay tuned for more work here on Big Blog Theory.