Red Wine Nights

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

Apropos of nothing, I've had an interesting revelation:

On rare occasions, I get the house to myself, and when that coincides with few or no obligations, I love nothing more than to get slowly drunk on red wine listening to my favourite melancholic music. I love doing this: in fact hugely so (partly because it so rarely happens). It is one of my favourite indulgences and means a lot to me. I'm also a list person - I love drawing up lists of things. Don't know why, just do.

It's when I wrote down a list of the music I play when I'm doing this "getting slowly drunk on red wine on a night at home alone" that I made an interesting discovery: all the music I play on such occasions is stuff I played pretty constantly as a teenager in the 70s and nothing else.

Now why might that be? Any amateur (or pro) psychologists willing to take a crack at the answer, please respond herewithin.

My list (in chronological order):

1969 Side B of Beatles - “Abbey Road”
1971 Focus “Moving Waves”
1972 Santana “Caravanserai”
1972 Pink Floyd “Dark Side of the Moon”
1973 Mike Oldfield – “Tubular Bells”
1974 Tangerine Dream “Phaedra”
1974 Side A of Hawkwind - “Hall of the Mountain Grill”
1975 Pink Floyd “Wish You Were Here”
1975 Tangerine Dream “Rubycon”
1977 Emerson Lake & Palmer – "Works"
1978 Alan Parsons Project – “Pyramid”

Bizarre, perhaps, but I'd die without this stuff!




P.S. Perhaps worth adding that I generally have very eclectic tastes, covering everything ever written. It's only when I'm getting drunk I listen to this 70s stuff exclusively. Why??