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Friday, October 07, 2005

Musically Inclined Decorating

When we moved into our big four bedroom house, we came up with a great idea for decorating the front room. We've dubbed it the Music Room, and it's the room where we keep our guitars, banjo, violin, drums and most importantly, the piano. Next to the Cabbage Patch Doll I've had since I was three, that piano is my most prized possession. It has likely saved me a ton of money on prozac and therapy.

Anyhow, the room has bookshelves and musical instruments everywhere, and a foosball table in the middle. All that is left to do is get bean bags. And album covers. We have this great idea to put album covers on one whole wall, it's a great alternative to wallpaper or expensive art, and it has endless possibilities for personalization. I was thinking about what albums I would want if I could have any album I wanted, regrdless of whether there was ever a record version and its corresponding 12" x 12" cover art. My list so far is:

Cat Stevens ~ Harold and Maude Soundtrack (if it exists, I had to piece mine together)
Counting Crows ~ August and Everything After
Jack Johnson ~ In Between Dreams

Pink Floyd ~ Dark Side of the Moon
Miles Davis ~ Kind of Blue
Alice in Chains ~ Unplugged
Moby ~ Play

Massive Attack ~ Mezzanine
Radiohead ~ O.K. Computer
Pepper ~ Kona Town

They Might Be Giants ~ Flood
Wyclef ~ The Carnival
The Cure ~ Show
The Beatles ~ Rubber Soul
Carole King ~ Tapestry

Tori Amos ~ Boys for Pele
The Shins ~ Oh, Inverted World

There's the quickies -- What am I missing?

3 Comments:

  • I have no suggestions since I care for none of those artists but I do have an idea. You should make the albumns easily removable from the wall so that you can change them as your musical tastes change or moods or if you have different events. I think it'd just be something fun. It could be something like your piano: another little project to play with from time to time.

    By Blogger Arbusto, at 5:02 PM  

  • Santana - Abraxax
    Beatles - White Album

    And being that you are in Joseph-Land, anything by

    The Mormon Tabernacle Choir! :)

    Yeah, there might be a generation gap here!

    By Blogger Crazy East Coast Uncle, at 6:38 PM  

  • Arbusto directed me to your site. I laughed and laughed and laughed. You are my new hero on a small scale - I love disgruntled lawyers.

    By Blogger SouthernCanadian, at 5:49 PM  

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