Karen O races my heart. She kicks ass. Great voice. Great artist. Loved the Yeah Yeahs Yeahs. Her performance for the Maps video is one of the greatest captures of true emotion in song ever. EVER. (for those that don’t know Maps is My Angus Please Stay. Angus showed up three hours late to the video shoot and then moved away to join a band.)
Here ya go for her jammin’ out
More Karen O…
Why is it that when I listen to one Concrete Blonde song I need to listen to all the Concrete Blonde songs!
One of my fishing with nerds students introduced me to afrobeats. Here’s a favourite. Interesting, the melody makes it sound like a love song but I think it’s actually the opposite. Not 100% sure.
And that guy has a bunch of bangers. And he always says you know my name right? put my name on it lol.
Was thinking about this one today, just based on timing reminded me of this classic.
such a good hook on that song, was perfect for the time.
Heard this on the radio and thought it was an old remastered sublime song I’d never heard. Took me a minute to realize it isn’t Bradley Nowell. It’s his son Jakob who sounds almost exactly like him.
So it’s been a bit. Sorry 'bout that. here’s a something new to get you back in the groove.
I’ve been occupied. I know the violence is coming. Fascists don’t give up power without blood.
Whatever.
Here’s a bit of truth pushed by my daughters. I ask you this question…
When I was a young boy, my father Took me into the city to see a marching band He said, “Son, when you grow up would you be The savior of the broken, the beaten and the damned?” He said, “Will you defeat them? Your demons And all the non-believers, the plans that they have made? Because one day, I’ll leave you a phantom To lead you in the summer to join the black parade…” When I was a young boy, my father Took me into the city to see a marching band He said, “Son, when you grow up would you be The savior of the broken, the beaten and the damned?”
Oh Lord (oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord)…
Well I’ve told you but I thought you know
There ain’t no heaven
Down at the station stood my dear old mother
Oh lord She keep on, keep on screamin’ and cryin’
“Oh lord I wonder what my son has done”
Oh lord, Did you bring me, bring me any silver
He didn’t bring me, bring me any gold
Oh did you see me, workin’ on South Carolina
Oh just to see me work on the county road
Oh lord (oh lord), there ain’t no heaven
Oh lord (oh lord), there ain’t no heaven
(Oh lord, oh lord)
There ain’t no heaven (there ain’t no heaven)
(Oh lord)
(Oh lord, there ain’t no heaven)
Oh lord (oh lord), there ain’t no heaven
Who doesn’t love a good cover of Cortez the Killer?
After the RIP posts about David Clayton Thomas, I happened to run into Sometimes In Winter by Blood Sweat & Tears off of that album that Cooke (and I) listened to repeatedly. It’s kind of an oddity on the album because it was recorded before David Clayton Thomas had joined the group and I suppose it was one of the least popular songs on the album for most people. But it was one of my favorites (after God Bless The Child, which is just awesome). I think until Dark Side of the Moon came out, it was the song that most struck me for it’s sound. It’s very clear sounding and does sound to me like winter - with the drums very up front and a very thin sounding mute on the trumpet being always a little in the background and just sounding distant, which fits the idea of the song perfectly. Most of the song reflects the idea of memories, repeating and fading and becoming sad with the realization that the memories are the past.
Two things about it suck, though. DCT would not have been a appropriate singer for the song, but Steve Katz is not a very good singer imo and his vibrato annoys the heck out of me. And while the lyrics have some really good lines, there are a few that just sound like really bad pretentiously arty poetry.
Still, I really like this song.
OK. I listened to it again, so I need to comment again. The intro seems kind of unclear as to whether it is going to be a happy or sad song. It resolves into major chord, making you think happy, only for it to immediately add a suspended 4th before going into the vocal, which just makes you a little less sure again.
The RMI piano that is sparsely played through much of the song also has a lonely sound - especially when it appears by itself for “it’s a cold room”, but then it immediately brings the song to its happiest part at the start of the instrumental portion.
I like how there are sad echoes added to the instrumental portions.
I also like how the intro is repeated at the end, but the chords underneath it this time make it much more sad. Except they tack the same happy ending on the very end, which I suppose they had to do.
This is a a song I lost and recently found again. When I an in the place, the uneven place, it hits hard.
This may not even be enough for you to finish reading this post, but there was a MONUMENTAL occasion last night.
Two octagenarians Ian Gillan and Ritchie Blackmore set aside over 50 years of mutual animosity last night to play one song, SOTW, last night. FWIW, Ian’s voice still has a little bit left in the tank. Ritchie’s hands were sadly less than a shadow of their former glory.
Yeah, it’s great that they got together (and are actually smiling. who would have thought). I made the mistake of listening to one of the videos out there. I was expecting Gillan to have lost a bunch of range, but was really saddened to see how much ability Blackmore had lost.
