Lounge music is wonderful. It takes you back to the atomic age when cocktails were cool and only the french and fags drank wine. Whether it's lounge or latin, space age or exotica, mambo or moog, there's something in "bachelor pad" music for everyone. Since I've studied the subject for a while (and by that, I mean I have listened to a shit-ton of lounge music), I'd like to take you on a magical tour, through the land of bachelor pad music... Won't you join me?
Let's begin. I won't be considering the "lounge" music of the likes of Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack. First of all, the Buskus hates that sort of music, due to prolonged exposure in a torture-style environment (aka, an Italian restaurant that he worked at). Additionally, anyone that's ever been to a wedding or an Olive Garden has heard Sinatra-style lounge music.
I'll be looking at a different type, a type that was born in the 50s and 60s from such revolutionaries as Les Baxter, Ferrante & Teicher, Hugo Montengegro, and Astrud Gilberto. This is the music that our grandparents listened to at cocktail parties, back when bartenders knew how to make a Manhattan and before "martini" became synonymous with "fruit juice or chocolate with a dash of vodka."
Over the next couple of units of time, I'll be looking at several sub-categories of lounge music, including ensemble lounge, exotica, space age, moog, and latin.
Stay tuned for next time, where I'll ease you into lounge music through some of the classic enembles and arrangements. Until then, I'll be me, and you'll be not-me... unless it's me reading this. In which case, looking sharp today j.patrick.
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I'm not even sure what that means. All research is done via www.somafm.com (for internet radio) and through my own personal collection of roughly 30 lounge music cds.
i will. as soon as i post this comment.
holy shit. i've dreamed about such a thing, but didn't know it actually existed. This shall make research even easier!
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