Why I'm a music geek:

When I was a young lad, 7 or 8 or so, my favorite song was Space Oddity. It was the only song on the radio that was about space, and, like many, I was a space freak. (Still am, in fact.) But, being 7 or 8, I had no idea who it was.

Fast forward to my teen years. Being the early/mid 80's, new wave was all the rage, and one of the kings was David Bowie, who had become my favorite musician, based mostly on his Young Americans album. My creative writing teacher liked to have music playing while we were working on the literary magazine, as many people would imagine she would. One day, amidst the Peter Gabriel and Laurie Anderson (both of whom are still favorites of mine), I heard the familiar countdown. I asked who it was, and when I found out that my favorite artist had done my favorite song, well, I was hooked right there, completely. Not only on Bowie, but on the idea that who made the songs MATTERED.

We're watching Live8 right now. Pink Floyd is on and the BF is nearly dying from the combo of nostalgia, guitar lust and seeing how old all the guys look. Someone in the audience has a sign which reads "Floyd reunites. Pigs have flown."

Still sound pretty damn good though.

I'm watching the highlights on ABC, since I have no cable. However, I heard MTV's coverage was horrendous, with lots of cutaways to blathering VJs, many commercials, and interviews with people like Jimmy Fallon.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised, considering how much they obviously don't care about being MUSIC television anymore, but it's still so disappointing, after their great coverage of Live Aid.

In other news, they keep showing a Nokia commercial with a song that's got to be by Moby. Does anyone know what song this is? Looking online didn't turn up anything.

Anybody heard Vanilla Ninja? I'm intrigued by the name, but know little else about them (except what it says at All Music and Wikipedia, of course).

Have I mentioned, in my music geekiness, that I bought the Live Aid DVD set? Some of that is really, really good.

Final high bid on that collection of 45's? $9,223.45. [link]

The winner sniped with 13 seconds to go. The top four bidders all have very high feedback scores, so I don't think the seller is going to get screwed by pranksters.

I got the Live Aid DVD set for Christmas and watched the whole thing in one sitting. So cool. I was surprised to see how good a performance Paul Young put on - I'd been a big fan of his, but I was 13 and just thought he was cute.

Ugh, ABC cut Madonna off! She looks great and "Like a Prayer" sounded even better. I'm going to have to buy this on DVD when it inevitably comes out.

Ooh, Annie Lennox was wonderful. And I really have to say I completely love "Jesus Walks" by Kanye West. That's a GREAT song.

The U2 set on Live Aid was stunning. Queen was at the top, literally, the top of their game, and Bowie was . . . . Bowie. I cannot judge him, for he is Bowie.

Yeah, Queen was amazing! So cool to see the crowd reacting to them the way they did. The guy I was watching it with remembered watching Live Aid with friends in New York City, and being amazed at how much the audience loved Queen; they all thought Queen was washed up.

Some people are apparently disappointed that Bono didn't jump into the audience or anything this time, but apparently that little stunt almost broke up the band back in '85. And anyway, he probably would have broken his sunglasses had he done it this time.

Some people are apparently disappointed that Bono didn't jump into the audience or anything this time

They're on crack.

I don't know if you remember this post in the LJ U2 community, Alicia, but somone asked a few weeks back whether we thought he'd do something like that again. My response was, "it would seem really cheesy and borderline forced. Therefore, he will be unable to resist."

Apparently, he resisted.

And yeah, the TV coverage (what I saw of it, anyhow -- I had to go to a family thing at 3) pretty much sucked. I think Madonna's was the only set they showed more than half of. But I found out Madonna apparently learned to sing for real somewhere along the line, so it was not a total loss.

I am now attempting to download the Pink Floyd set.