Pink Martini - Tiki Music

TM tiki mick Tiki Socialite SOCAL Joined: May 12, 2004 Posts: 4094	TM tiki mick Posted posted on Sat, May 6, 2006 2:04 PM Do you know or listen to much Martin Denny, Les Baxter, Arthur Lyman, Esquivel or Henry Mancini?? Those are pretty much the people who invented, wrote and CLOSED the book on lounge, tiki and exotica. I don't know why citing some obsure corner of this genre as being the whole enchilada is a valid point. So, if I say that the musisicans I just listed above are pretty much the leading lights when it comes to exotica and lounge, I am aboslutely correct. And the fact that NONE of those artists wrote even one song that could be remotely considered to be depressing or somber makes me even more correct. Don't start throwing out insults saying that my comments are narrow minded. Pink Martini's last album was anything but light hearted, and my damn point was that I bought the album thinking I was going to get something fun and uplifting, as reflected by the name PINK MARTINI, which is an obvious reference to the PINK PANTHER and Henry Mancini. It was my mistake to buy the album without downloading it first and checking out the tracks. Had I done that, I never would have bought the album in the first place.

Do you know or listen to much Martin Denny, Les Baxter, Arthur Lyman, Esquivel or Henry Mancini??

Those are pretty much the people who invented, wrote and CLOSED the book on lounge, tiki and exotica.

I don't know why citing some obsure corner of this genre as being the whole enchilada is a valid point.

So, if I say that the musisicans I just listed above are pretty much the leading lights when it comes to exotica and lounge, I am aboslutely correct. And the fact that NONE of those artists wrote even one song that could be remotely considered to be depressing or somber makes me even more correct.

Don't start throwing out insults saying that my comments are narrow minded. Pink Martini's last album was anything but light hearted, and my damn point was that I bought the album thinking I was going to get something fun and uplifting, as reflected by the name PINK MARTINI, which is an obvious reference to the PINK PANTHER and Henry Mancini. It was my mistake to buy the album without downloading it first and checking out the tracks. Had I done that, I never would have bought the album in the first place.

Post #230767 by tiki mick on Sat, May 6, 2006 2:04 PM