Snagged by The Album Challenge!

I was minding my own business on the world wide web and someone slapped me on the back yelling "TAG!! YOU'RE IT!!" I got hit with The Album Challenge - - Damn!! - - and since this blog is in need for some new content, might as well put it HERE TOO, albeit out of context - but that doesn't really matter, does it? Enjoy... and just be thankful I can't slap YOU on the back!!...

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DAY ONE... 

Okay, Julian, [the back slapper who tagged me] I'm not going to be able to rack up a list but I will (quite randomly) pick a few albums I remember being - what's the assignment - influential? Inspiring? Part of my childhood? Okay - here's an odd one. My first pick... 

 

 

The Muppet Movie (1979)

... includes of course "Rainbow Connection". I can recall listening to that album quite a bit - in fact, I'll tell you something you probably might find amusing - but there's a cassette tape somewhere of Lloyd and I doing the whole damn movie (I kid you not!) - including all the songs. Imagine Lloyd, practically bursting blood vessels in his head - doing Miss Piggy's "Never Before". We also did a pretty convincing "I Hope That Something Better Comes Along" I was Kermit and Lloyd did a pretty impressive Rowlf The Dog. 

We would often slip into everyday conversations lines like "millions of people happy!" just for a laugh. If you've seen the movie (which I bet you have) that's what intrigues Kermit to set out on his adventure, when Dom Deluise (as a Hollywood agent) coaxes Kermit to spread his talents outside of his familiar swamp. 

"Moving Right along" - another good song, a very buddy-movie moment between Kermit and Fozzie Bear- and then there was a song you can almost imagine Aerosmith covering, Dr Teeth and The Electric Mayhem doing "Can You Picture That?" (Has sort of a "Walk This Way" feel to it, I think). 

Now I'm no Mike Sargent, but this being a "soundtrack" album - you think he'd approve? Who needs Jerry Goldsmith when you've got Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher! Oh, lest I forget, the album also includes the beautiful and yet oddly out of place "I'm Going To Go Back There Someday" sung by Gonzo. 

What's he singing about? Where's this fit in with the rest of the movie? No one knows - and it's never explained. Perhaps that's all part of the plan. 

The magic of Jim Henson - to keep you wondering.

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