8 posts tagged “music”
Is it really necessary to have a band perform in Antarctica for this Live Earth thing? For pure novelty sake, sure, but there's no reason to be preaching anti-global warming to the penguins. Ah well, I still enjoy this video.
I'm not going to even make a sorry attempt at music journalism here. Out of all the things I can write about, I think I have the least skill with writing about music. Words to describe sound? What the hell. The drums crash and then the guitars whirl...that could be anything. People do it, I just don't know how.
"You Are My Face" from Wilco's new album is a standout worth sharing. It has the signature abrupt shifts, equal parts guitar, piano, organ, drums. In the five listens I've gone through while trying to post this the song is really growing on me, it has some good elements.
I watched the DVD included with my CD package this morning. I have to
say, there is some pretty good videographic evidence that might just
help a secret stalker-fan like me pinpoint exactly where Jeff Tweedy
holes out in Chicago. I'm going to find it one of these days.
When are these guys gonna tour already! I'm a front-row fan, don't they know?
This reminds me of the Beach Boys for some reason. Must be the staggered chorus?
I'm always excited when another package arrives from Amazon.com. Here's a new song in my music library:
This is a good theme song for this time of year:
woxy.com is my saviour right now. If only I could import it to my car stereo, then I would never have to listen to a local radio station ever again. WXRT is okay and KISS FM every now and then. But woxy.com has consistently good stuff. Like this:
What's your musical horoscope? (Put your music player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.) Inspired by Stephanie.
1. "Float On" Modest Mouse
2. "Lucky" Radiohead
3. "Mayonaise" The Smashing Pumpkins
4. "Love Her Madly" The Doors
5. "Devil's Haircut" Beck
6. "La Vie" Manu Chao
7. "Buick Blues" Lucinda Williams
8. "Almost Doesn't Count" Brandy
9. "Maps" Yeah Yeah Yeahs
10. "Ex-Factor" Lauryn Hill
Surprisingly not showing the depth of my collection, damn you random
shuffle! Let's see, if this is my horoscope it looks like my day must
have started out good and descended into a sad pile of boo hoo. Right
on the head, thank you musical horoscope.
