bad music and scary machines

[deird1]

When people asked me my taste in music, I used to say "everything except heavy metal and country and western".

Then... I became a country fan. So it became "everything except heavy metal".

Now... I think it's become "everything except heavy metal and Frank Sinatra". Because seriously - listening to a few minutes of Sinatra from outside the MRI room was enough to make me snap and ask them to give me anything else to listen to during my MRI, because all the Sinatra would drive me crazy.



Oh yeah. And I had an MRI.

It was exciting and weird, and did sound just as much like a jackhammer as everyone had told me. It was on my knee - so I only had to be in the machine up to my shoulders, rather than full-on claustrophobic nightmare conditions. Which sounds like a good thing, but in practice, instead of being in a high-tech coffin getting cool sci-fi effects as I was transformed into a super-soldier, I kept opening my eyes to see this machine eating me! and it had almost reached my head! Very stressful.



So... Frank Sinatra. Does that music suck, or is it just me?

Comments

[slaymesoftly]

Are you sure it was Frank, or just someone trying to sound like him for Musak purposes? I'm not a big fan of music from that era (which, in his case is actually a pretty long "era' lol), but I quite like many of his songs. I'm not a fan of singers who get so involved with showing off their pipes or how "creative" they can be that the melody/lyrics of the song get lost. But I don't think of Frank Sinatra - as much as he is a well-known stylist - as someone who does that to the detriment of the songs. Harry Connick Jr sounds a lot like Sinatra, as do quite a few others who hope to be that successful, but they aren't as good at it. On the other hand, I get quite antsy at hearing any kind of the same music in too large quantities. I like to jump around through artist and genres. My playlists are very eclectic and a mix of just the songs I really like - no matter who does them, or what genre they are.

Re: heavy metal - Not even "Sandman"? :)

[deird1]

Nope, real Sinatra. :)

"Sandman"? Don't think I know it.

[slaymesoftly]

My bad - It's Enter Sandman by Metallica. My favorite song of theirs.