Music and Video Stress

It's been an ongoing joke in the family - "Are you worried that you're going to run out of music to use in the videos?"

Well...

I'm far from out of music altogether but the well does seem to be drying up for the moment. I've been reduced to just hitting 'shuffle songs' on my ipod and seeing what random thing in the 7000+ songs there pop up that might give me an inspiration. This has worked in the past but it's really starting to get flat in there. And I have Hilton Head, Pittsburgh, and Michigan still to go from 2010. That's no 2009 epic but it's a lot of material that needs to be married to some good tunes.

What's missing?

I need some more good tropical sounding music for beach vacations - stuff that's not TOO cheesy. Yeah, I could bust out the Doug Cameron electric violin but that stuff is so lightweight it makes smooth jazz look like Wagner. And with each passing year, the Michael Gettel and assorted Narada stuff seems less and less relevant. It just seems almost dishonest to put stuff I haven't listened to since high school on movies about my 6-year-old daughter. And what I'm into now...well, the post-rock stuff can work for dramatic vistas, but it wasn't that kind of a summer - and even that stuff (as I've mentioned before on the blog) can really seem out of place when it explodes into feedback all over a family video. Mellow out, guys. Here's hoping for an Explosions in the Sky acoustic experiment. You reading this, guys? Prog...is hit or miss. I've really milked the Flower Kings catalog, but there are still several albums I need to get.

Which is just it. I need some new music. I need to fill up the back catalog of things I used to listen to that still have some meaning, I need to fill the holes in the inventory of things that are really working well, I need to get some new stuff altogether, and a lot of bands/artists that I love REALLY need to put out some new albums. I need a $500 shopping spree on iTunes and the time to listen to what I buy.

Wouldn't that be nice?

Oh well. Keep the music coming, everyone!

Matt