Adventures in Music

Posted on 24. Jan, 2010 by Ryan Northcott in Music

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I write a lot about music, partly because I dabble in it, mostly because it inspires me. I get such a kick of finding a new song or artist…which reminds me of a story. I was the tender age of 16, I had just begun liking dance/electronic music and somehow I came across a CD from the UK called “A Retrospective of House”. I actually ordered it from the UK and had it delivered to HMV six weeks later…oh pre-iTunes days…in anycase this was the song that had me dancing in the living room (and the humble beginnings of Dave and I’s Car Dancing):

Skip ahead a couple years and I moved to LA. Hanging out, attending parties…oh my it was the life. Here’s a song that I specifically remember driving to the Grand Opening party for the Tommy Hilfiger store on Rodeo…

Time went on, the days got longer, the shine of LA wore off a touch and the rain fell. Just like these days the rain fell, fell and fell. At that time this was what was playing in my disc player…

Los Angeles was great, but I needed a touch of home. So I packed up my car, and headed north once again. It was a long trip, especially in the dead of winter, but as I drove through the desert just north of Las Vegas I heard this come on the radio. It was fuzzy, it cut in and out, but it was perfect at the time. It also stopped the freakout I was having listening to some strange story on Coast-to-Coast-AM.

As I settled back to Calgary, I was enamored by this song. It wasn’t dancy, there were no badass bass tracks or repetitive beats…it was a beautiful voice, a plucky guitar and some great lyrics. Some day I’ll find it, but there was a webcam I was absolutely glued to. This song + Webcam = Greatness.