... I've selected this one CD, "Earth Healer" as an example only. She has the full set of M.G. CDs and I can't actually distinguish between them, so this will do as well as any of the others as a subject for this opinion.
There are loads CDs by Medwyn Goodall (and similar artists), all sold mail ... Read review
Advantages: Less than an hour long. Disadvantages: Awful, awful, awful music.
My girlfriend's great, she really is. She has excellent taste in many things (boyfriends not least among them) but if there's one thing we'll never agree upon it's music. Although we both have very varied tastes, they never seem to coincide. Her CD collection consists of twangy Redneck folk, soundtracks from drippy chick-flick films she likes, dodgy compilations (ie NOW 1983) and, worst of all, this. Medwyn Goodall. I've selected this one CD, "Earth ... ...of M.G. CDs and I can't actually distinguish between them, so this will do as well as any of the others as a subject for this opinion.
There are loads CDs by Medwyn Goodall (and similar artists), all sold mail order or in those funny smelling girly shops with crap hanging from the cielings and a loads of hideous "Grey Alien" merchandise. The Medwyn Goodall CDs have names like "The way of the Dolphin", "Medicine Woman" ... more
My girlfriend's great, she really is. She has excellent taste in many things (boyfriends not least among them) but if there's one thing we'll never agree upon it's music. Although we both have very varied tastes, they never seem to coincide. Her CD collection consists of twangy Redneck folk, soundtracks from drippy chick-flick films she likes, dodgy compilations (ie NOW 1983) and, worst of all, this. Medwyn Goodall. I've selected this one CD, "Earth Healer" as an example only. She has the full set of M.G. CDs and I can't actually distinguish between them, so this will do as well as any of the others as a subject for this opinion. There are loads CDs by Medwyn Goodall (and similar artists), all sold mail order or in those funny smelling girly shops with crap hanging from the cielings and a loads of hideous "Grey Alien" merchandise. The Medwyn Goodall CDs have names like "The way of the Dolphin", "Medicine Woman" and "Priestess, the return to Atlantis" - names designed to evoke some vague, blissfull, ultra-spiritual pre-industrial culture which is never actually defined (Although there are a number of "celtic" references.) The music itself is described on the inlays with words like "pure", "healing", "spiritual" and "cleansing". The idea central to the music seems to be that because something is (allegedly) derivative of a "native" (ie indian, native american, african tribal) it is automatically rendered "cleansing", "healing", "spiritual" etc. Listen to the CD though, and you soon discover it has all the spirituality of a Kellogg's Pop Tart. If this music was playing in a lift you'd call it Muzak. In fact, my girlfriend probably couldn't tell the difference either, except she's listened to every one of these stupid CDs a thousand times.. I haven't yet figured out the Celtic connection but I'd love to know what a bunch of blue- painted sword-wielding warrior tribesmen would have made of this CD - A full 45 minutes of turgid, grating, percussionlesss, poorly synthesised panpipes and dreary, recurring acoustic guitar riffs - A good bonfire, hopefully.
