So I tagged myself from a friends Blog Seven Songs I'm really into right now and why.
In no particular order:
1. "The Future" this is by an up and coming rapper "EdGe", I really don't like much rap, but one day I was goofing with a Orchestral meets urban track and Edge said "I could rap to that" I said no, its in three, nobody raps in three. He was right, I'll try to edit with a link to the song.
2. "Crime of the Century" by Supertramp, I've always loved this group since High School when I went to the concert. Today so much music doesn't breath, there has to be a fill in every beat, nothing has time to reflect, Hip-hop and RnB in particular. 12 lines spaced out over 5 beautiful, sparse minutes of instrumentals. I'm teaching my kids to love this music.
3. "Walk Don't Run" by The Ventures, in addition to what I yell at my kids at the pool, its also a pretty cool surf song by the longest lasting surf band. I have several students learning to play it and it never gets old when they come in to work on it. Sure wish we could get that sound, but I'm not spending 3 grand on a Mosrite just to get that sound.
4. "Rescue Us" by My Daughter, another one I'll need to post a link for, a song My daughter and I wrote while on vacation. Cool semi modal stuff, chorus in major, the verses in dorian.
5. "I Will Rise Up" or one of many cool songs by Lyle Lovett, right now its this one. All of Lyle's songs are awesome, this one has really cool BGV's, me and my kids are totally into it, trying to sing all the parts.
6. "Bad Company" by, well, Bad Company, Just bought this CD on a whim, and remembered that I really like this song. Don't know why.
7. "London Calling" by The Clash, The best song from one of the best albums ever record, hadn't listened to it in a while or never, go get it, its a bargain on itunes 20 songs, $10, everyone cool.
Brent
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2 comments:
Strap your whiny rap-loving punk students into some chairs, Ludivico style, and then crank VENTURES: LIVE IN JAPAN over and over til they learn some appreciation for Things That Are Good In Life.
Meanwhile, I actually like Junior Brown's version of Walk DOn't Run better (in his Surf Medley) but will always ache for a recorded version of Junior doing his extended live surf/sci fi mach up which culminates in the world's most rocking cover of THE OUTER LIMITS.
Which the Ventures also tear up, but not like Junior.
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Comparing Junior to anybody else just isn't fair. If you did it first you should pray that Junior doesn't redo it, cause then yours will SUCK. If Junior does it first, don't bother. When people wonder why I love Johnny Cash I play Juniors version of Ring of Fire. Its truly scary to listen to him play the guitar. I'll play Eddie's stuff, Randy's stuff, Jimi's stuff even Buckethead, but I won't touch Junior, too scary.
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