Probably the best use of garden-variety keyboard beats I've seen ever maybe.
Also, shaker egg! Really fantastic harmonies. Easy to love, sort of makes you want to dance. But beneath all the twirling auxiliary, and those wonderful mandolin strings, there's a really lovely song, an assertive, berated yet dignified love letter. Something very 19th century about it that is refreshing, charming.
It's a well-crafted structure, in the sense it's very even and that's not something everyone can do, as it can be tough to find the right words that are also the right number of syllables and rhyme enough. Sure I love something asymmetrical, that's certainly interesting, but something this steady is simple, and simple works more often than not.
Some friends of mine played with these guys back home last night. Interesting in checking out their album...would've been so cool to see that show! Alas.
"When I was a boy of nine
I loved you with all my mind,
all my heart, all my soul,
Love me now or lose it all.
Your sister Jean and Anne Marie
say that you're in love with me.
Is there something I can't see?
Love me now or leave me be.
Down by the river on past the creek,
all me way to Widow's Peak,
proclaimed my love but you didn't speak,
love me now or hold your peace.
The baker and the butcher's wife
say you lead a lonely life,
need a man to stand beside,
love me now or stand aside.
Darling, it's so plainly true,
even I get lonely too.
When my heart is set on you,
love me now or leave me."
~Boy of Nine
Buxton, Nothing Here Seems Strange
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Sunday, September 23, 2012
9/23/12
Someone explain to me how it is the the 23rd of September in the year 2012. I just don't understand how fast time can move. It is beyond comprehension.
So this happened today. It's a little rough, the angle is not exceptionally flattering, but how fun it was! Something to remind me I still remember what it's like to feel creative, hence I have something to wake up in the morning for:
You should tell me if you liked it. Feedback of all types not unwelcome.
So this happened today. It's a little rough, the angle is not exceptionally flattering, but how fun it was! Something to remind me I still remember what it's like to feel creative, hence I have something to wake up in the morning for:
You should tell me if you liked it. Feedback of all types not unwelcome.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
9/20/12
For whatever reason, I've been on a huge The Starting Line kick lately. Whenever they come up on the iPod, I'm like "Sure, OK, let's go with this."
Interesting to me I haven't blogged on them before? Because "Say It Like You Mean It" is such a fantastic mainstay, but ya know, I only get around to this every so often. But I've been a huge kick lately, every TSL song on shuffle has made me stop (And yes, OK, I jam out to "Island." You caught me. It's the only track of "Direction" that makes the cut, though).
This one, though, particularly I love, short and sweet as it is:
Love the beat, love the phrasing, love the concept. Straight-the-fuck-up. Love that goodbyes can be so upbeat.
It gets it all in one. Loved. Unloved. Circumstance, Inspired. And so it goes.
"Lead on,
to keep our feelings strong,
and make me still believe
our page is one and the same
Our ways will separate tonight.
You say if we were to wait.
Some things just might be changed.
I say that I dont have the strength
to fuel a burning flame.
Speak to me,
What can I say, we just live too far away.
That's a shame that love can't make you stay.
Sweet thing,
I hope that you know I'm wondering where you are.
You say this could work someday,
When you and I both know this is the end.
Leave me the way it has to be,
excuse my poor excuse.
Tell me that insecurities
are what drove me to you.
And everyday I compare your face
from sweet beginnings to your bitter end...
Sweet thing,
I hope that you know I'm wondering where you are.
You say this could work someday,
when you and I both know this is the end.
Let me let go...
Interesting to me I haven't blogged on them before? Because "Say It Like You Mean It" is such a fantastic mainstay, but ya know, I only get around to this every so often. But I've been a huge kick lately, every TSL song on shuffle has made me stop (And yes, OK, I jam out to "Island." You caught me. It's the only track of "Direction" that makes the cut, though).
This one, though, particularly I love, short and sweet as it is:
Love the beat, love the phrasing, love the concept. Straight-the-fuck-up. Love that goodbyes can be so upbeat.
It gets it all in one. Loved. Unloved. Circumstance, Inspired. And so it goes.
"Lead on,
to keep our feelings strong,
and make me still believe
our page is one and the same
Our ways will separate tonight.
You say if we were to wait.
Some things just might be changed.
I say that I dont have the strength
to fuel a burning flame.
Speak to me,
What can I say, we just live too far away.
That's a shame that love can't make you stay.
Sweet thing,
I hope that you know I'm wondering where you are.
You say this could work someday,
When you and I both know this is the end.
Leave me the way it has to be,
excuse my poor excuse.
Tell me that insecurities
are what drove me to you.
And everyday I compare your face
from sweet beginnings to your bitter end...
Sweet thing,
I hope that you know I'm wondering where you are.
You say this could work someday,
when you and I both know this is the end.
Let me let go...
Sweet thing,
I hope that you know I'm wondering where you are
You say this could work someday,
When you and I both know this is the end."
~Hello Houston
I hope that you know I'm wondering where you are
You say this could work someday,
When you and I both know this is the end."
~Hello Houston
The Starting Line, Say It Like You Mean It
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
9/18/12
One thing about recklessness, it's not always aggressive. Sometimes it's quiet. Despondent. A little hopeless.
"Gonna burn the town
if you lie to me.
Gonna set it off,
oh baby, I was blind to see.
Talk me down,
I'll find my wings,
a big bad soul,
Some say that it's the end of me.
And I tell myself, it's not following me,
Break me out of here, cause it's blinding me.
Lie to me baby, don't you lie to me
Nothing's gonna change if you wait to save me.
"Gonna burn the town
if you lie to me.
Gonna set it off,
oh baby, I was blind to see.
Talk me down,
I'll find my wings,
a big bad soul,
Some say that it's the end of me.
And I tell myself, it's not following me,
Break me out of here, cause it's blinding me.
Lie to me baby, don't you lie to me
Nothing's gonna change if you wait to save me.
When the world is down
And fast asleep,
They can't break us now,
Nobody's here for you or me.
I'm half way gone,
Don't want to be alone,
I'll burn the town,
I'll find you if you want to be found.
And I tell myself thye're not following me,
Break me out of here, cause it's blinding me.Lie to me baby, don't you lie to me,
Nothing's gonna change if you wait to save me.
And I tell myself, it's not following me,
Break me out of here, cause it's blinding me.
Lie to me baby, don't you lie to me,
Nothing's gonna change if you can't, can't save me."
And fast asleep,
They can't break us now,
Nobody's here for you or me.
I'm half way gone,
Don't want to be alone,
I'll burn the town,
I'll find you if you want to be found.
And I tell myself thye're not following me,
Break me out of here, cause it's blinding me.Lie to me baby, don't you lie to me,
Nothing's gonna change if you wait to save me.
And I tell myself, it's not following me,
Break me out of here, cause it's blinding me.
Lie to me baby, don't you lie to me,
Nothing's gonna change if you can't, can't save me."
~Burn This Town
Battleme
Monday, September 17, 2012
9/17/12
You know that feeling you get when you think you have a great idea, only to find it's been done? Not only that, but been done well? It's that mix of feeling disappointed and unoriginal, embarrassed by your own foolishness in thinking maybe you got something cool going on after all. But, after, there's also a wave of self-satisfaction, a bit of a kudos to the instinct.
That's how I felt after I heard this...:
...at the store the other day, and thought "Man, it would so rad to to make this into a sad acoustic cover!" only to hear this...:
...on a Pandora station today. Fun little arpeggio motif, West-Coast-cool vocals, and an unidentifiable instrument and/or pedal holding down a simple and effective rhythmic line. It thoroughly modernizes a classic, a little more depth and a little less pep, though it doesn't completely sacrifice the innocent charm of the original.
Secretly wish I was around for the Ed Sullivan days. Back when even the bad-side-of-tracks-greaser-rock-n-roll boys wore suits and ties and had clean hair, it seems. I have to believe everyone used to have better manners than they do today, where most people treat everyone else like yesterday's trash and think nothing of it. Still, I bet some people were still jerks. Jerks are as timeless as a crush-inspired love song.
Whatever. I still could figure out my own (sadder) version of this tune, maybe. But now I'm just YouTubing a bunch of Buddy Holly videos and making my cat hang out with me. What kind of life am I trying to lead, anyway? Really thought I'd have that worked out by now.
"Everyday it's a-gettin' closer
Goin' faster than a rollercoaster
Love like yours will surely come my way
Hey, hey-hey"
That's how I felt after I heard this...:
...at the store the other day, and thought "Man, it would so rad to to make this into a sad acoustic cover!" only to hear this...:
...on a Pandora station today. Fun little arpeggio motif, West-Coast-cool vocals, and an unidentifiable instrument and/or pedal holding down a simple and effective rhythmic line. It thoroughly modernizes a classic, a little more depth and a little less pep, though it doesn't completely sacrifice the innocent charm of the original.
Secretly wish I was around for the Ed Sullivan days. Back when even the bad-side-of-tracks-greaser-rock-n-roll boys wore suits and ties and had clean hair, it seems. I have to believe everyone used to have better manners than they do today, where most people treat everyone else like yesterday's trash and think nothing of it. Still, I bet some people were still jerks. Jerks are as timeless as a crush-inspired love song.
Whatever. I still could figure out my own (sadder) version of this tune, maybe. But now I'm just YouTubing a bunch of Buddy Holly videos and making my cat hang out with me. What kind of life am I trying to lead, anyway? Really thought I'd have that worked out by now.
"Everyday it's a-gettin' closer
Goin' faster than a rollercoaster
Love like yours will surely come my way
Hey, hey-hey"
~Everyday
Buddy Holly and the Crickets, B-Side on "Peggy Sue"
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