Mood music

[serinde]

Don't ask me why, but I somehow evolved the need to listen to a certain type of music when lounging in the bath, that being...I'm not sure what, exactly, it is: swing? big band? jazz? This is a genre I know less than nothing about, so I've not been sure what to look for. But, picture a movie that takes place in the 30s; then imagine the ObHotSinger in the speakeasy who's wearing a long sparkly dress and crooning some extremely suggestive song while draping herself over the gumshoe. Now put that on a scratchy record and play it on a cruddy record player. That.

We have none of That. An entire wall of CDs, but not That. Tonight, however, I discovered that the Dick Tracy soundtrack (which I'd utterly forgotten Steve had) will suffice. Less pleasing, I might add, was having to jump out of the tub five songs in because the fucking player got stuck. Well, nothing's perfect.

I am slightly confused--I've only seen the movie once, but I seem to remember Madonna being in it, in said ObHotSinger role, but nothing on this CD is sung by her. Lots of other people, up to and including that bastion of swing Ice-T, but no Madonna. Go figure.

Comments

[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

Do you mean the sort of thing Ella Fitzgerald or Billie Holiday used to sing? Or something else?

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

Er...let me consult Napster and get back to you on that. *embarrassed look*

[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

Heh. I have plenty of that sort of thing. Just say the word and I'll throw a few samples your way.

I usually just call it "torch music", because most of it is about how the singer is carrying a torch for someone. But it pretty much came out of the earlyish jazz scene -- Ella Fitzgerald worked with Louis Armstrong a fair bit, for example.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

Y'know, the phrase "torch singer" was wandering around my brane in conjunction with this, but I wasn't sure exactly what it referred to either.

If you can throw a few samples onto amoeba, that'd be lovely. *smooch!*