Songs from the work radio, pt. 2

Paul Simon - "Run That Body Down": I love songs with this sort of vibe. There's this undercurrent of a troubled marriage, then this sort of minor musical collision at the end. Beautiful.



ABBA - "S.O.S.": God, listen to the synths! From Wikipedia: "The descending chords and ominous synthesizer melody line of the introduction set the tone for Fältskog’s vocals, sounding almost as if she were breaking down in tears." Then the chorus basically contrasts that with synths made of tidal waves and everyone singing out to the waves and oh man yeah.



The Pretenders - "I Go To Sleep": If I go through life without this song coming back for me at the right moment it'll mess me up pretty hard. Maybe not pretty hard, but I guess it'd be disappointing. It's an incredibly rainy and weighted-down song. A night-time-fog-out-your-looking-window sort of song. (The version the work radio played was by the Pretenders, not the original by pre-punk band The Kinks).

B-52s - "Topaz": When I first heard this song it was one of those things I'd obviously like and it turned out I liked it. The vocals seem to intertwine like vines, then flourish out and explore their space during the chorus. The lyrics seem like something I'd write off as a list for song titles or titles for anything, here they bring to mind plenty of colors and images. I think I'm moving sideways on this one, I've written about it a few times so I'm out of steam.

I've got more than enough for you

"The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)" is the new Weezer album. My prediction is there might be other songs that share the same media as "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived", but it will be merely as an afterthought. Just break this song up into ten tracks. Make the Red Album an EP just short of 6 minutes. It'll be good. Scott Shiner even said "The song 'The Greatest Man That Ever Lived' is a masterpiece that includes ten different styles of music based around a common theme," so there are ten different styles, and certain Weezer albums are borne on ten tracks. It just works! But serious, maybe the actual Red Album is what Weezer likes to do. Maybe the first two albums were the accident.

Anyway, just tried to do a drinking game to "Roxanne" by The Police and hell if I can drink anything that much.

Music from the work radio, pt. 1

This is something I'll be doing every so often. Sometimes the work radio (more like a single track data CD that we change every so often, but work radio flows better) plays some pretty good songs in between all the kitschy instrumental music and Jon Secada. This is a collection of all the songs I can remember strongly, whether I like them or not. I'll make sure it's obvious.


Sting - "If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free": Sting and Sega CD quality video combine and I do not know how to feel.



The Highwaymen - "Silver Stallion": I love this dang song so much. Incredible lyrics, music that seems to wrap all around you, and there's just this awesome marriage of melancholy in a strong character that I'm all for. I'll admit, I'm all for when some tough guy admits they love the smell of grass in the spring. That is what I am all for. Also: any song that uses "thunder and lightning in her thighs" in such an honest and modest way has more than it knows going for it.

So only two songs right now, but heck if I can remember anything anymore. I make all these posts drunk.

My life: At home everyday, drinkin' coke in a kitchen with a dog who doesn't know his name

This is going to be a place for me to just spew out a bunch of stuff about music. For starters, I mainly made this because I've been listening to American Water by the Silver Jews while drinking a tall can of Olde English and I realized a lot of what I want to say about music should best be done in an environment fitted for talking about music. Most of my favorite music blogs have been on blogspot, so I'm just going to get into this thing right here.