Philip Glass: North Star

I have realized that in the blog era my inclination has shifted slightly away from finding new music to finding Mp3s of every piece of music I have ever possessed. I mean EVERYTHING, every LP, cassette, LP borrowed and taped on cassette(somewhere there is a landfill with my name on it), CDs, and my older sister's collection thrown in for good measure. I'm estimating that to be around 5k things, and I've got about 1000 things to go. A lot of it (especially on the tail end) is junk better left forgotten. Once in a while though, I'll come across something I'm totally jazzed to rediscover.

I don't know how Phillip Glass is thought of these days, even by myself. I think he is just kind of Movie wallpaper anymore and his influence on popular music probably makes Moby seem like a bad ass. Still, I contend this a great album, the missing link between Moondog and Aphex Twin and as good as either.

Weird thing is that I had this in high school, late 70's, and the only way a teenager in NW Indiana would come across any interesting music at all is from a review in CREEM magazine. Can't recall who wrote it, hopefully Lester Bangs, will have to track it down.

Anyway, I played the hell out of it, especially when I was in a mellow mood and could only listen to "Another Green World" so many times. My tastes have broadened a bit since then, but as soon as I put it on I recognized every little throbby note and still thought it was pretty cool.