Every once in a while, in my ROAM (Remnants Of Abstract Minds) notebook, I'd rerun an unfinished sentence I'd created months or years earlier. In January 1992, I asked people to respond to the following sentence and got more responses than ever. Here is that sentence and some of the responses:
The best musical accompaniment for a picture perfect day is...
...David Bowie's "Sound and Vision." (Mary H.)
...David Sanborn's "Straight To The Heart" album. (Jonathan L.)
...My Bloody Valentine's "Only Shallow." (Katy W.)
...Enya's "Waterworks" album. (Sandi H.)
..."Englishman In New York" by Sting. (Todd W.)
..."Turbulence" by Eddie Harris. (Tony C.)
..."Misty" by John Coltrane or The Manhattan Transfer. (Colin S.)
..."Sweet Thing" by Van "The Man" Morrison. (Christina K.)
...Pat Metheny's "Are You Going With Me?" (Doug D.)
...the wonderful voice of Desmond Dekker in the background all the time! (Jenny O.)
...the sax behind James Brown's many hits. (Chip C.)
...Stevie Wonder's "Big Brother." (Cyndi A.)
..."In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel. (Cindy D.)
...anything upbeat--Green Day, Big Star, maybe Neil Young. (Roberta M.)
...any song by Cat Stevens or Hound Dog Taylor. (Paul G.)
...everything by The Breeders. (Veronica D.)
...the "Peter Gunn" theme, because it's cool and the best music when you're out just having a good time. (Jason T.)
...Vivaldi's guitar concertos. (Jennie K.)
...Beethoven's "Pastoral" symphony. (Dana P.)
...Andres Segovia/Julian Bream's lute suites for Classical guitar. (Jenni S.)
...really good Classical music, although most legitimate Classical music is inherently good. (Errol K.)
..."Somewhere They Can't Find Me" by Simon & Garfunkel, if you happen to be a paranoid schizophrenic. (Miranda G.)
..."Aww, that tune! How does it go? Yeah, that's right. You know it." (Michael M.)
