post sixty-seven: big change.

Last week I was apathetic. This week I'm excited!! The music we listened to in class was awesome! I really liked the Exploding Hearts; they reminded me of the Beatles in a more punk way. A harder rock. The Strokes were awesome because the beat even if it seemed easy or repetitive always made me tap my toes no matter what. Very catchy. Nicely done by these two bands and I think I will be getting this music from Mr. A. It's well worth listening to. So tragic how The Exploding Hearts died but it happens, and their music clearly is still listened to today

post sixty-six: current favourites.

I don't know what's going on with me. Lately, the music that makes me smile hasn't been doing so. I don't have any current favourites to talk about, and I hate to sound like a student that just doesn't want to write, I really and honestly do not have anything to talk about, because no music is catching my eye (ear?) at the moment.
I want to list things and talk about them. I want to show some of the songs that make me smile no matter what. But the songs that are supposed to make me smile, aren't.
I'll write about one song in particular that I can think of that I've been tapping my foot to lately. It's "Gone Gone Gone" by Phillip Phillips. The melody is beautiful, his guitar playing is fantastic, and the lyrics are some "pick me up" lyrics that I guess make me lift my head a little bit when I'm feeling upset. It reminds me of someone who is very very important to me, and I feel like we would say the words to this song to each other. I'll paste the video here.

post sixty-five: i don't know what to write about.

My thoughts about the music in class have been so/so. The music we've been listening to isn't bad, but it isn't good either. It's right in the middle; I'm not opposed to listening to it but I wouldn't put it on my iPod. I'm feeling apathetic, not about the class, I really enjoy the class, but I'm feeling apathetic about the music we're listening to. It's just not my cup of tea. If everyone else likes it, that's good, it's just not my preference. I feel bad for not having an opinion on it but it could really go either way for me.
Maybe soon we'll listen to some music that appeals more to me; I know not everything is going to go my way, it's just this particular unit that doesn't quite grab me. It has been like this with other units as well, like when we listened to disco. Sometimes certain kinds of music just don't appeal to some people and I am one of those people in this case.

post sixty-four: ACL.

I'm literally so excited for some of the acts in ACL. Mostly Fun., Arctic Monkeys, Passion Pit, Atoms for Peace, and The Cure. We listened to Portugal the Man in class today and I really enjoyed it.
I told Mr. A I would put up my favourite Arctic Monkeys song for him, and here it is. It's called Dangerous Animals.

It's really great and I love the beat and ongoing bassline through it. Take a listen to it and let me know what you think.

I wish I could go to ACL so badly, because I really love Fun.. One of their songs has really gotten me through lately and I love all of their other music as well, the lead singer has a fantastic voice and can complete vocal runs like no other.
I also want to see Passion Pit, a VERY underrated band. I think they need to be taken more seriously and need to get bigger in the music industry because they're extremely talented, more so than a lot of artists in the industry.

post sixty-three: this week overview.

I haven't really liked the music we've listened to in class this week. I enjoyed the diversity of it but it's not exactly the kind of music I'd download onto my iPod. I don't want to sound like one of those people that says "turn it down, it's too loud" (no one likes them let's be real) but it just sounded like noise to me. I really respect RHCP as artists and I think they're great musicians, but I just don't like their music. It isn't for me.
Primus was absolutely 100% a no for me. I thought they were TERRIBLE. Too loud, and they had lyrics that didn't make sense, and on top of all of that I felt like they played up the eccentricity card a little too much and tried to distract from their mediocre talent with a shock factor, similar to a current day Lady Gaga.

post sixty-two: my current shazams.

Shazam is an app on the iPhone that allows you to put the phone up to the speaker and have it identify whatever song is playing, letting you know what song it is.
Songs that strike my interest on the radio (usually 93.3 KGSR) get Shazammed (is that a verb? I'm going to consider it one) on my phone, and I thought I'd share those with you, and hope you could check them out with me.

Recovery by Frank Turner is great because of Turner's unique voice. You can hear his accent very clearly (I love when you can hear singers' accents for the most part) and the lyrics are very nice. Good jam.

Only Love by Ben Howard, another good song, brilliant if you ask me actually. It's a little bit slower and the lyrics are an example of repetitive lyrics, which could be improved on, but that's okay because I really enjoy the melody of this song. Lyrics, however, are more important to me. A- for this song.

Gone, Gone, Gone by Phillip Phillips (yes that's actually his name) is an amazing song, in my opinion. He's one of the few American Idol winners who actually got somewhere and did something with his career after the show. (He's also the singer of the song Home). This song makes me feel comfortable and I enjoy listening to it. I feel emotional as well. Good song. A+.

post sixty-one: bruno mars.

I can't stand Bruno Mars.
All of his songs get way overplayed. Every single one of them. And he's just now having this big comeback. After "Grenade" came out, he seemed to disappear off the face of the earth for two or three years. I was starting to wonder if he actually DID catch a grenade for someone.
But no, turns out he's back with two songs that are both equally bad as, if not worse than, Grenade, Marry You, and Just The Way You Are. Locked out of Heaven and When I Was Your Man are two songs with horrid lyrics, one with degrading lyrics and one with whiny, childish ones.
"Cause your sex takes me to paradise" is repeated over and over again during the chorus of Locked out of Heaven, and When I Was Your Man constantly says things he should have done. Really, it means he didn't please his girl enough, she dumped him, and now he's saying "oh I'm sorry I should've bought you flowers lalala" even though we know very well that he wouldn't have if she hadn't left him.
I don't know, I just really hate Bruno Mars.