What Are You Listening to Right Now?

I would like to share my musical listening enjoyment for the day, even though I know I haven't gained any followers yet on this blog. Hopefully in time we can share our knowledge and personal experiences with each other.

Today I listened to CD's in the car, which is just one of the many places I enjoy it. I just happened to be traveling today, and I was in the mood to listen to some late '70s - early '80s. So I got out a few CD's that I mixed myself. I have CD's for different years with various artists. Today I played 1979 and 1980. As I was listening to each song, I asked myself, "which of these artists are still recording and performing today?" The answer would be very few unfortunately. I now realize just how much I love the music from this era; it was a great time to grow up.

When I listen to the music of today - and I mean mostly mainstream rock or pop, or what you hear now on pop radio - I just don't get anything out of it. I don't know, maybe I'm old school, or maybe it's just a generation gap thing. But I know that I would never trade to be a kid in this day and age. The music I grew up with is timeless and it always brings back some great memories for me.

Just a sample of what I played today: The Doobie Brothers, the Eagles, Bob Seger, Billy Joel, Little River Band, Hall & Oates, Steely Dan, Boston, Styx, Olivia Newton-John, Pat Benatar, and my favorite girl - Linda Ronstadt - as you will certainly see throughout this blog. In fact I have a wonderful story to tell you later on of how I first discovered Linda's voice and how I rediscovered her more recently.

As I continue on with this music blog I hope to do a post like this regularly at least once a week, so we can share our musical tastes. Here's a couple of videos I'm sure you will enjoy.