Posts Tagged ‘music’
Don’t consider this a formal review or anything, but let me warn you away from Beatles: Rock Band, were you thinking of running out and evacuating your wallet of its hard-earned greenbacks.
It’s very pretty.
They’ve put a lot of work into making it authentic.
It sounds great.
…
Goddamn, I kind of feel like I got ripped off, though.
Okay, [...]
Today’s song for your perusal (your ear-use-al? shaddup):
Kenny Rogers, “The Gambler.”
No great commentary on the song — it speaks for itself, and it’s one of those songs (like “On the Road Again” by Willie Nelson) that conjures car trips with my father when I was young.
I will comment, though — what the hell happened to [...]
Obviously, part of what I’m looking for in a story song is something that has a beginning, middle, and an end. Some pieces feel like story songs but are really… I dunno, character studies, or vignettes. (And they’re cool, but not for this.)
Here’s today’s story song:
Be Your Own Pet, “Becky.”
Love the tune. Love the song. [...]
Today’s story song:
Ludo, “Lake Pontchartrain.”
Not a fan of Ludo? You should be. An earlier EP, Broken Bride, is a weird punk-pop-metal-rock opera about time travel, pterodactyls, and what might be the Antichrist.
Nice thing about the band — and this song — is that, while their music is punk-poppy, it has a great sinister edge, but [...]
I don’t listen to music when I write. Can’t do it. Maybe something orchestral, but even then, it’s the music that sets the mood and the pace — that can be okay if it’s what I’m really looking for. That then can lead to a worse condition: I become obsessed with finding the right music [...]
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