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Thursday, 23 April 2009 |
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Editor offers musical bucket list, farewell
It is with great sadness that I relinquish the title of Lifestyles Editor and write my last Noteworthy at Appalachian State University. And so, faithful readers, in the vein of all great goodbye columns, I leave you with a list. Here are my top picks for everything you must do in, about and around music before you die.
Some of these I’ve completed, some of these I have not. But they are all awesome.
But first and
foremost, before anything else in music is even relevant, you must fall
hopelessly and irrevocably in love with vinyl.
Visit the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame.
Take a posed picture with your friends at Abbey Road and Haight-Ashbury.
Get choked up when looking at The Dakota from Strawberry Fields.
Sing “Don’t Stop Believing” with strangers in a crowded bar.
Listen to every Beatles album, not just the soundtrack to “Across the Universe.”
Learn the difference between an EP and an LP, and between a 45 and a 78.
Busk for change at a train station.
Pick out all the brown M&Ms.
Sing “Sweet Home Alabama,” “California Dreamin’,” “Gone to Carolina,”
“Georgia on My Mind,” “Ohio,” and “New York State of Mind” in the
appropriate states.
Try to understand and appreciate, if not like, your parent’s music.
Line up “Dark Side of the Moon” with “Wizard of Oz.”
Call the radio station and dedicate an obscure song to someone who knows it’s for him or her.
Record a demo.
Perform “Brown Eyed Girl” at open mic night.
Become a groupie and/or roadie.
Find a speaker that goes to 11.
Give more than change to someone busking at a train station.
Get an entire diner to sing “Build Me Up Buttercup.”
Sing, emphatically, to a stranger at karaoke night.
Get caught getting down with your bad self while car dancing.
Learn the words to “Louie, Louie.”
Bite the head off a bat.
Participate in an impromptu jam session.
Uncover who “You’re so Vain” is actually about, by any means necessary.
Develop a commercial alter ego.
Get injured at a punk show.
Refer to the frontman of your favorite band by first name only.
Know all the words to at least one rap song, and break out into singing it whenever you deem necessary.
Scream “Freebird” at a concert.
Get kicked out of a guitar store for playing “Stairway to Heaven.”
Vomit on a country music legend.
Go to a Jimmy Buffet concert with your dad.
Have a song written about you.
Record a cheesy music video.
Make your own blues song on a harmonica.
Participate in an air guitar contest.
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