Music Monday May 29: I was going to do a Top 10 …

Leon Stevens

May 29

There is a radio show on CBC here in Canada that occasionally does a feature called SYNTH: Songs You Need To Hear.

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Now, I can't say to someone, "You'll like this song" (or book for that matter) because I can't presume that others will share my taste in music (or books), so it is safer to say, "You might like this" and if they don't like it, so be it. Maybe you will find a new favorite.

I was going to do a Top 10.

I started to, but there were just too many and I didn't want to leave any out. I realized that if I feature a song on here it is because it has some relevance to my life. Which got me to thinking, "What was the first album I bought?"

It was Zenyatta Mondatta by The Police.

They were a new band to me, and I was unaware that they had released two previous albums (Ten years later I would be in college getting drunk playing the Roxanne drinking game*) We only had one AM radio station and unless you subscribed to one of the many popular music magazines, you were at the mercy of that one AM radio station, until ...

MTV

It was a game changer in my teenage years, and then Canada jumped into the fray with MuchMusic (which is still around but only plays Ridiculousness, Jersey Shore, and The Kardashians), playing many of the bands that never would make it big outside the country. Trooper anyone?

Anyway, Zenyatta Mondatta had a lot of good tunes and here is the one that started it all for me:

OK, I know you are wondering who Trooper is. Well, here you go:

-Leon

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Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, and a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words.

My new book page: http://books.linesbyleon.com/