94. "Enchanted Farm" by The Forbidden Five
During my first three years of grad school at Utah State, I worked as an instructional designer/web page developer (see song #109). Much of my day was spent copying and pasting HTML code into web pages and testing them out to see what was and wasn't working. As part of my coping strategy for the mind-numbing boredom involved in this work, I got a set of headphones and listened to music that I thought would lift my mood. One woman that I worked with had all these weird Ultra-Lounge CD sets with some damn good mood lifters in them. She loaned them to me, and I put the best ones on my iPod. In exchange, I got her and her friend tickets to see Billy Joel and Elton John with my family, and she ended up getting to stand right next to the stage with my wife and kid.
I think it was more than a fair swap.
And I think you'll agree with me when you hear my favorite organ song that I pilfered from her Ultra-Lounge collection--"Enchanted Farm." Having grown up on a farm for fifteen years, I can almost identify every sound.
Almost.
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