I came very late to the Baja Marimba Band "party". For years, I mistakenly pigeon-holed them as a TjB knock-off, bargain-basement variety. Needless to say, it's now one of my greatest regrets that I never paid them any attention back then.
As a result, I've only really been listening to BMB material via the LPs and the few compilation CDs for approximately the ten years of the existence of A&M Corner, with the result still being that I'm not that overly-familiar with the tracks, their names, their composers, etc., and still have to look that stuff up when discussing the group.
This past week, I decided to put the entire A&M BMB catalog on one of those mp3 discs that plays in my car. This has the double advantage of my now having constant access to all of their stuff while riding in the car and of being able to reinforce mentally what I'm hearing with the title of the track that displays on my car player. With limited time for just "listening" these days, I find I do most of it in the car during my commute to and from work, so I don't have the luxury of reading the record jacket as the songs play, the way I used to do in the olden days when there seemed to be more time.
There is of course much to love in the BMB canon, and thus far, what little we've gotten on CD has been in the form of a few somewhat messy compilations and one or two albums. I suppose the best of the bunch is the three-CD Timeless Music compilation from a few years ago, in that there, some of the home-grown tracks got attention.
Anyway, this thread can be a place for us, the fans, to give a wish-list of our twenty or twenty-five favorite BMB tracks. Not that anyone's going to do anything about it, but at least we can see what we all like, and perhaps get ideas for our own home-made compilations.
Pick your favorites and sequence them the way you think they'd sound best. We all want all of the albums to be digitally released, so that's a given, and not the purpose of this thread. Let's try to come up with one killer compilation that really represents what these fabulous musicians are/were about.
Harry
As a result, I've only really been listening to BMB material via the LPs and the few compilation CDs for approximately the ten years of the existence of A&M Corner, with the result still being that I'm not that overly-familiar with the tracks, their names, their composers, etc., and still have to look that stuff up when discussing the group.
This past week, I decided to put the entire A&M BMB catalog on one of those mp3 discs that plays in my car. This has the double advantage of my now having constant access to all of their stuff while riding in the car and of being able to reinforce mentally what I'm hearing with the title of the track that displays on my car player. With limited time for just "listening" these days, I find I do most of it in the car during my commute to and from work, so I don't have the luxury of reading the record jacket as the songs play, the way I used to do in the olden days when there seemed to be more time.
There is of course much to love in the BMB canon, and thus far, what little we've gotten on CD has been in the form of a few somewhat messy compilations and one or two albums. I suppose the best of the bunch is the three-CD Timeless Music compilation from a few years ago, in that there, some of the home-grown tracks got attention.
Anyway, this thread can be a place for us, the fans, to give a wish-list of our twenty or twenty-five favorite BMB tracks. Not that anyone's going to do anything about it, but at least we can see what we all like, and perhaps get ideas for our own home-made compilations.
Pick your favorites and sequence them the way you think they'd sound best. We all want all of the albums to be digitally released, so that's a given, and not the purpose of this thread. Let's try to come up with one killer compilation that really represents what these fabulous musicians are/were about.
Harry
So what the heck.
