My Soundtrack – A Guide to Siria’s Playlists (Future, Past, and Present)

 

A Guide to the Eclecticism of Siria’s Playlists to come…

…I don’t listen to anything because I think it’s cool or because someone else does. As with everything else, I like what I like. .

With that said below is my attempt (in as close to chronological order as possible) to help you understand what for better or worse has led me down basically down every musical path I’ve chosen to explore.

George Strait  ”The Chair” -

The very first tape I bought all by myself was George Strait’s Something Special at the age of four (yes really).  Prior to that I sometimes got to pick stuff out whenever my dad would buy music (which was often – I scored such gems as The Chipmunks Christmas, Fairy Tale Princess Stories, The Story of Rapunzel, etc., etc.) but this one I bought all by myself with the allowance my parents gave me ($5 a week).  I actually at the moment can’t even recall exactly what drew me to it, but every morning for the next two weeks I would make sure to have my George Strait tape with me as I was dropped off at the babysitters house and hand her the tape asking if we could play it. 

Every day for two weeks she would conveniently forget to play it .  That’s okay I played it enough on the way home from the babysitters, on the way to the babysitters, and at home.  It took a little while for this tape to actually grow on me and was starting to think maybe my purchase that had left me without ice cream truck money for a whole week hadn’t been so wise after all.  Thankfully I discovered “The Chair,” which is basically a song about a guy in a bar attempting to pick up on chicks with a lame pickup line that to this day I can listen to over and over.  Yes there were others that should have this spot (see Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Conway Twitty, Chris LeDeux, Willie Nelson, and of course Buck Owens), but George Strait was my introduction to country music and has been a constant in my life.  I am pretty confident that he stands alone in being the only musical artist that I can sing along with at least 30-40 of his songs and know a majority of the words. 

This man heads my list of those who in my eyes can do no wrong musically which I refer to as  ”Untouchables” (he spends time here with Lou Reed, Roy Orbison, Marty Stuart, Dwight Yoakam, Joe Strummer, Tom Petty, and Ian Mackye to name a few.).   It’s no wonder he is to be honored with the Artist of the Decade by the Academy of Country Music next week, an honor that only four other acts  (Marty Robbins,  Alabama, Loretta Lynn, and Garth Brooks –no offense but Garth? Really? Before George? WTF?!)have receivedto date.

 

Stacey Q “We Connect” -

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Mar 17, 2009 | Categories: My Soundtrack | Tags: Elvis, Elvis Presley, George Strait, my soundtrack, Neil Sedaka, Ozzy Osbourne, Psycho Killer, Siria, Talking Heads, The Clash | 1 Comment »