Post by Vince on Feb 28, 2024 10:45:37 GMT -5
This goes to Kat's comment about my weird tastes in music. Well, buckle up, kiddos.
When I was at Georgia State University in the early 1990s, I worked for a time doing sports and news reporting for the student radio station, Album 88 (and it's a fairly big deal in Atlanta, it's a 100kW FM station that at the time played 24/7). Had a media pass for sporting events and access to the locker rooms and all that.
Anyhoo, at some point they started putting into rotation an album called Colors by Ken Nordine. Unlike most of the music they played (new and local up-and-coming bands), this was an album recorded in the mid-1960s, originally to make radio spots for a paint company. Now Ken Nordine is a deep-voiced voice-over legend (he passed away a few years ago at age 99) and created a music genre called "Word Jazz", which sort of like a beat poetry slam with jazz music accompaniment. Some of his Word Jazz albums were really long stories with incidental music, but the tracks for Colors were all short - about 1 minute 30 second each.
Here's one that shares a namesake with one of our members:
Unfortunately, even though the album has 34 tracks and many shades of red, it doesn't have a Ruby or a Scarlette (although the Magenta track has a lyric that reminds me of Ruby: "...almost the freedom...to say almost anything...she almost wants.")
So, if you think you might identify with a color, take a look at the various tracks and have a quick listen to see if Ken's interpretation of the color matches up with you.
I sort of identify with "Flesh" (and maybe that's cheating):
When I was at Georgia State University in the early 1990s, I worked for a time doing sports and news reporting for the student radio station, Album 88 (and it's a fairly big deal in Atlanta, it's a 100kW FM station that at the time played 24/7). Had a media pass for sporting events and access to the locker rooms and all that.
Anyhoo, at some point they started putting into rotation an album called Colors by Ken Nordine. Unlike most of the music they played (new and local up-and-coming bands), this was an album recorded in the mid-1960s, originally to make radio spots for a paint company. Now Ken Nordine is a deep-voiced voice-over legend (he passed away a few years ago at age 99) and created a music genre called "Word Jazz", which sort of like a beat poetry slam with jazz music accompaniment. Some of his Word Jazz albums were really long stories with incidental music, but the tracks for Colors were all short - about 1 minute 30 second each.
Here's one that shares a namesake with one of our members:
Unfortunately, even though the album has 34 tracks and many shades of red, it doesn't have a Ruby or a Scarlette (although the Magenta track has a lyric that reminds me of Ruby: "...almost the freedom...to say almost anything...she almost wants.")
So, if you think you might identify with a color, take a look at the various tracks and have a quick listen to see if Ken's interpretation of the color matches up with you.
I sort of identify with "Flesh" (and maybe that's cheating):
