Three for Three
The vendor that stocks the Pepsi product machines at my workplace finally started putting in bottles with the iTunes caps. Well, it might have started last week, but I didn't notice until today. The good news is that I bought three bottles and got three winning caps. Even better news is that two of my co-workers learned that I collect the caps and promised to give me theirs. And lucky news is that I found a cap in the trash!
I picked up two tracks from Sly & the Family Stone: "Dance to the Music" and "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)," both from The Essential Sly & The Family Stone. As I write this I wonder how I've gotten this far in my music collection without adding these Soul classics. None of the CDs have these tracks, either. Strange. But I'm glad I have them and I plan on putting them into heavy rotation for a while.
Yesterday I picked up "Boogie On" from Ten Years After: The Anthology (1967-1971) by (obviously) Ten Years After. This one hung out in my Wish List for a while because (1) I hesitate loading up my collection with tracks that play for more than 10 minutes and (2) hitherto this the only track I remember from the group was on the Woodstock soundtrack album. Its been pretty good. A nice, classic Blues rhythm with some stunning guitar work. It may not be a staple of my listening stock, but it will be great when I'm in Bluesy mood. I may need to have the Hammond organ explained to me, though.
An unexpected acquisition was "Under Your Spell" by Amber Benson & Orchestra on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Once More, With Feeling soundtrack. I wasn't aware that the show's producers had released an album of the music in this really weird episode from one of my favorite TV shows. Some sort of curse was upon the town of Sunnydale that made residents break out in song. Like a Broadway musical this device furthered the plot, but it also was the plot. Most of the songs were at least clever and a good many were both clever and funny, but this one was actually beautiful. Everytime I heard it I thought to myself "Gee, wouldn't it be nice if they released the song for sale?" And they did. All the songs and then some are available on iTunes (and maybe elsewhere, though I didn't check).
It's just a teensy scary that I can listen to the music on my iPod for over two days without a repeat. And I'm still collecting caps.
