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the ruby series After a half hour rant to my parents on the telephone about what happened at work this week, I finally let it go. Thinking about it isn't worth my time anymore. I have other things to occupy my time. ... Rebecca Gates. I am sure that I could ask twenty random people off the street and none of them would recognize the name. She was the driving force behind the band The Spinanes. They did some great drum and bass music in the 1990's and faded away as most bands tend to do. Now she is on her own and I bought her solo album without having heard any of it beforehand. Buying it was not a mistake. To hear her sing again is a good thing. Her voice creates a mood that I can't quite describe except that it was something that made the afternoon that much better for me. The lyrics have yet to make an impact on me, but that isn't that unusual. In listening to music, I find myself drawn to a voice first and then listen to what is being said later in the process. Now since that purchase went so well, I might have to get the solo effort of Sarah Shannon, the voice of Velocity Girl. Both of them have changed their sound as they've grown older and in some ways I can understand why they made the decisions that they did. What I mean to say is that I think that I have grown into liking a new sound as well. Guitars have given way to slightly more eccentric instruments. On a different music front, I was amazed at how young Sarah McLachlan looked in her video for the song Vox. I'm not saying that she looks old now. I'm just saying that she still had that adolescent look to her, but that probably had something to do with the early 1990's fashion that she was wearing. Besides she was born the same year as me. |