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You can choose any 5 songs, but just those 5.
Which and why?
1- "Sittin' on the Dock of The Bay" Otis Redding.
Because it is one of the most perfect songs ever recorded.
Can be wistful, happy, sad. Doesn't matter what your mood is, Redding's voice is exactly how you are feeling. And nobody can listen to it without whistling the end bit. And getting it out of tune
2 - "7 Jam" Clutch
Because it's everything I love about Clutch.
Heavy, nonsensical lyrics, fantastic rythm to it and ends in a 4-5 minute jam (hence the title). Dirty blues/rock with attitude and style left over to spare. Always, always lifts my spirits however foul my mood.
Fallon hollering with his double-tracked vocals about "That old ship of Zion is taking way way out into outer space and everything's gonna be alright...YEAH!"
3 - "Harvest of Sorrow" Metallica
Because it's Metallica at their best. Slow, menacing rock with a snarl and a middle-finger. And it has Hetfield doing a feral rock growl before the solo. Is everything that they used to be and everything they need to be again.
The one song where their rubbish tubby drummer uses the toms to a decent effect instead of disguising his shoddy time keeping skills.
4 - "Voodoo Chile" Jimi Hendrix
For the intro.
That simple. The wah-wah coming up from a fade, the kick drum punctuating the riff, then the "Thwunk" of everything getting ready before it lurches off into one of the greatest riffs ever written on a guitar. Excessive wah-wah solo and a bass that runs through your gut. And lyrics that make you realise that Jimi is the biggest, baddest and meanest axe-slinger to ever burn his guitar "Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of ma hand.."
5 - "Refuse/Resist" Sepultura.
Again, the intro makes this for me. Heartbeat of Max's son in-utero before it thumps in with the drum pattern.
And what sounds like "Godzilla" being screamed way way back in the mix just before the guitars boot in.
Double-kick rolls this monster along right before, at 0:49 that tribal bellow comes in with "Chaos AD, Tanks on the street".
Absolutely raw, shredded barbed-wire guitar sound and Max shouting himself stupid against the atrocities committed in the favelas of Brazil and other 3rd world countries.
Rage distilled into tribal rock.
Perfect.
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So that's my 5.
Which and why?
1- "Sittin' on the Dock of The Bay" Otis Redding.
Because it is one of the most perfect songs ever recorded.
Can be wistful, happy, sad. Doesn't matter what your mood is, Redding's voice is exactly how you are feeling. And nobody can listen to it without whistling the end bit. And getting it out of tune
2 - "7 Jam" Clutch
Because it's everything I love about Clutch.
Heavy, nonsensical lyrics, fantastic rythm to it and ends in a 4-5 minute jam (hence the title). Dirty blues/rock with attitude and style left over to spare. Always, always lifts my spirits however foul my mood.
Fallon hollering with his double-tracked vocals about "That old ship of Zion is taking way way out into outer space and everything's gonna be alright...YEAH!"
3 - "Harvest of Sorrow" Metallica
Because it's Metallica at their best. Slow, menacing rock with a snarl and a middle-finger. And it has Hetfield doing a feral rock growl before the solo. Is everything that they used to be and everything they need to be again.
The one song where their rubbish tubby drummer uses the toms to a decent effect instead of disguising his shoddy time keeping skills.
4 - "Voodoo Chile" Jimi Hendrix
For the intro.
That simple. The wah-wah coming up from a fade, the kick drum punctuating the riff, then the "Thwunk" of everything getting ready before it lurches off into one of the greatest riffs ever written on a guitar. Excessive wah-wah solo and a bass that runs through your gut. And lyrics that make you realise that Jimi is the biggest, baddest and meanest axe-slinger to ever burn his guitar "Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of ma hand.."
5 - "Refuse/Resist" Sepultura.
Again, the intro makes this for me. Heartbeat of Max's son in-utero before it thumps in with the drum pattern.
And what sounds like "Godzilla" being screamed way way back in the mix just before the guitars boot in.
Double-kick rolls this monster along right before, at 0:49 that tribal bellow comes in with "Chaos AD, Tanks on the street".
Absolutely raw, shredded barbed-wire guitar sound and Max shouting himself stupid against the atrocities committed in the favelas of Brazil and other 3rd world countries.
Rage distilled into tribal rock.
Perfect.
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So that's my 5.
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Pop.
Hmm
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper
Blur - Coffee & TV
Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly
Rob D - Clubbed To Death
DMX - In The Air Tonight (even better than the Phil Collins one)
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper
Blur - Coffee & TV
Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly
Rob D - Clubbed To Death
DMX - In The Air Tonight (even better than the Phil Collins one)
Grix Thraves wrote:
> Pop.
On a small note, I've only really listened to music properly for about
> two years. Before that I didn't see the point.
--
Even less for me. Only about a year ago, when i started using the internet properly i.e. Porn. (I'm joking). I started to download stuff and got into music. before that I rarely listened to it.
> Pop.
On a small note, I've only really listened to music properly for about
> two years. Before that I didn't see the point.
--
Even less for me. Only about a year ago, when i started using the internet properly i.e. Porn. (I'm joking). I started to download stuff and got into music. before that I rarely listened to it.
Pop.
On a small note, I've only really listened to music properly for about two years. Before that I didn't see the point.
On a small note, I've only really listened to music properly for about two years. Before that I didn't see the point.
Sibs wrote:
"talking to yourself is the first sign of madness..."
I'm not bothered, I'm on about the fifth or sixth already. :0)
"talking to yourself is the first sign of madness..."
I'm not bothered, I'm on about the fifth or sixth already. :0)
Right then. May as well do mine. Just bear in mind that I've only been listning to 'proper' music for a year or so now, so my choices are going to be less obscure than all of yours.
1. Under The Bridge - RHCP
A good guitar riff, stunning vocals, and a crap All Saints cover to show how good the original is.
2. Have U Ever - The Offspring
For the lyrics. For once, there is a song I can identify with. I've been listening to it for about a year now (not constantly, obviously), and now there is not one lyric that I don't fully understand. It's like American Beauty and Good Will Hunting - I like it because I can identify.
3. Hun Jord - Sigur Ros
Reminds me of Requiem For A Dream, in a way. Starts with waves, high vocals, and general chilledness, before spiraling down to screaming at the end. Cheers to whoever told me about this group.
4. On A Day Like Today - Bryan Adams
My Sept 11th song. Not because I enjoy remembering the event itself - the song just reminds me how human I actually am, and how fragile existance is. Long story behind it.
5. Something In The Way - Nirvana
The ultimate depression song. Nuff said.
1. Under The Bridge - RHCP
A good guitar riff, stunning vocals, and a crap All Saints cover to show how good the original is.
2. Have U Ever - The Offspring
For the lyrics. For once, there is a song I can identify with. I've been listening to it for about a year now (not constantly, obviously), and now there is not one lyric that I don't fully understand. It's like American Beauty and Good Will Hunting - I like it because I can identify.
3. Hun Jord - Sigur Ros
Reminds me of Requiem For A Dream, in a way. Starts with waves, high vocals, and general chilledness, before spiraling down to screaming at the end. Cheers to whoever told me about this group.
4. On A Day Like Today - Bryan Adams
My Sept 11th song. Not because I enjoy remembering the event itself - the song just reminds me how human I actually am, and how fragile existance is. Long story behind it.
5. Something In The Way - Nirvana
The ultimate depression song. Nuff said.
talking to yourself is the first sign of madness...
(I wonder if talking to 'the magical box' counts...?)
(I wonder if talking to 'the magical box' counts...?)
Grix Thraves wrote:
"Yeah, he was deaf, but I'm not clapping him for that."
(He wouldn't hear you anyway.)
You have no idea how peeved I am that I missed that first time around.
(Oh, I have some sort of idea. :0) )
"Yeah, he was deaf, but I'm not clapping him for that."
(He wouldn't hear you anyway.)
You have no idea how peeved I am that I missed that first time around.
(Oh, I have some sort of idea. :0) )
Difficult. I'm going to do the first five that come into my head. This is more five recommendations of the best songs I've ever heard and still love to listen to than anything.
1) Paranoid Android - Radiohead
Definitely. For all the times that you go away and come back to it, it sounds as fresh as the very first time you've ever listened to it... at least for me. :0) Bouncy and beautiful to begin with, slowly drifting into a mad fury of emotion that only describes no more than fast cars and jobs that pay only in pounds.
2) Sinnerman - Nina Simone
Coolest piece of music ever. The heartbeatesque of the piano riff that accompanies the whole song, parted with a very cool drum beat, some damn excellent parps from some wind instruments in the background, bass strings, and pure brilliance from Nina's lyrics and voice, which not only carries the song but pushes it further and further onwards... and that bit in the middle, where it's just piano and clapping? No matter what mood I'm in, that always makes me smile. It was also used in The Thomas Crown Affair... the updated version, with Pierce Brosnan in. Very cool film you all should watch.
3a) The Ecstasy of Gold - Ennio Morricone
Film music has always kinda inspired me. It's supposed to basically represent what's been put up on screen... a little side dish to the main meal, perhaps. But usually, a atmosphere that can stay with you as long as visions from the film can.
But the Spaghetti Western trilogy was very different. It's the only films that at least I know, where the music was written first, and then the film was directed to the music. I love the films, and I love the music.
Both the director [Sergio Leone] and Morricone were very visualistic, idealistic people, those that saw what they wanted in their minds, and put it down exactly as that.
The Ecstasy of Gold represents a scene in The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, where this character, after just about the whole film has passed, has finally come across the final burial place of a large amount of gold, a graveyard. The gold is buried in a grave, which they know the name of... and all that's left is for this man to search the entire graveyard to find this one grave. That alone is inspiring, but when shown along with this piece of music, it's absolutely incredible. Simply watching a man running around a graveyard, showing the emotion of finding gold so very soon, and the excellent harmonics and pick up of this brillaint piece of music has put so many ideas into my head it's amazing. The calm slow repetitiveness of a piano, followed by what sounds like a clarinet slowly piping a few notes that are then repeated by human voice... it's strangely beautiful, and sums up the feeling perfectly. If you haven't seen Good, Bad, Ugly, do so. It's a superb film, and it's nothing like what you expect it to be.
3b) The Trio - Ennio Morricone
I'm including these together, because that's how they should be listened to. Taken from the Good, The Bad, and The Ugly again. I love film music. :0)
This is played almost immedietely after The Ecstasy of Gold, which while Ecstasy sums up the feeling of final acceptance, life, and finding gold, obviously... The Trio plays on that, and is very much about death.
In a Few Dollars More, Morricone experimented with a theme of a certain tune being played every time somebody was about to die, shown in the Musical Pocket Watch that the badguy kept around with him. "When the music stops playing, take out your gun and shoot".
Simple repetitiveness. It summed up the feeling of the moment, as it slowly faded away to nothing. At any second it could fade... and then you simply accepted that was your fate. Beautiful music to die to, a small smile could creep across your face, and by the time the music finished, you didn't care about going for your gun, and you were shot. Watch the last standout scene in For a Few Dollars More to see what I mean.
But the repetitiveness I think Morricone learned from, as well as a few other little tricks. This swaying melody, which plays basically over and over... along with a little "pick up". Not designed to depress anyone into acceptance that they're going to die... in fact, the opposite. By using the repetitiveness, and then using the small guitar plucking to pick the music back up, it's almost as if they're fighting a battle within their mind. One voice telling them "no, this is it. Like hell are you going to get your gun out in time", and another "shut up, shut up, you can do it, come on, stay awake."
Again, beautiful direction straight from music by Sergio Leone. Watch this film!
4) The Great Gig in the Sky - Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd are very cool. Sheep is one of my favourite songs, I think... Wish You Were Here, Shine on you Crazy Diamond, Time, Comfortably Numb, Eclipse, One of These Days... all great songs. They're perfectionists at music, I kinda imagine them listening to their songs over and over again, listening to see if there's one second of the song that they don't really like, so they can go back and record something to make it sound a bit better.
But they did one song that was pure genius from start to finish. I really can't say much more than that about it. Female vocals screaming these enchanting, complicated enough to make it even seem random tunes... accompanied by wisping piano chords... which explode into this amazing ball, altogether sounding the most complex and wonderful piece of music ever written. The type of music that shuts up any single piece of thinking you might be doing, and crams the whole experience of listening to such a song right down your throat and into your soul. Pure music.
If you've never listened to Pink Floyd, please do. Music like this doesn't come around often. Go buy Echoes. So good.
5) Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Uh oh. It's classical music.
How is classical music described though? Something an orchestra can play, I suppose. And no lyrics.
Looking back at my list, I've got three songs with no real lyrics in. Ecstasy of Gold doesn't, neither does The Trio. Great Gig in the Sky doesn't. Sinnerman only uses lyrics as a tune, not to really mean anything... and just about the same with Paranoid Android.
So what's the difference?
Normally, I can hardly stand classical music. Most of it is by composers up their own wrong ends, Beethoven is a perfect example. Pathetic "bah bah bahs" that continue over and over, getting stronger, and apparently meaning something. Yeah, he was deaf, but I'm not clapping him for that.
Really though, if you think Beethoven is the pinacle of classical music, you've got a hell of a lot to learn, as did I.
I would love to be able to write music. It's something I've desired for a long time... the ability to put emotion into black dots. It's utterly incredible how somebody can think of music in such a way, to be able to play it through their head, and then write it down, somehow.
One thing I can do though, at least, is come up with stories, ideas... things I can use somehow. I just hope that something can come along and inspire me.
This piece of music is THE most inspiring thing I've ever encountered. Apart from being utterly relaxing... if I clear my mind, it transports me to lands far away, lands I didn't even know I could imagine. It's much like opening the very top of my head, allowing it to breath for a change.
If you've ever seen a sunset and wondered at it's beauty, this is it. If you've ever fallen in love and stayed awake all night thinking about your love... this is it. This is seeing something that takes your breath away, and then returns it to you, and asks where you want to go.
I can't really describe this music, because it's more complicated than I can possibly imagine. I wish I could tell you what it's allowed me to imagine, but I'm hoping to tell you another way.
Please get it, download it, somehow. This is what I'm going to base something very special to me on, so you better get to know it. :0)
Christ I've wrote a lot.
1) Paranoid Android - Radiohead
Definitely. For all the times that you go away and come back to it, it sounds as fresh as the very first time you've ever listened to it... at least for me. :0) Bouncy and beautiful to begin with, slowly drifting into a mad fury of emotion that only describes no more than fast cars and jobs that pay only in pounds.
2) Sinnerman - Nina Simone
Coolest piece of music ever. The heartbeatesque of the piano riff that accompanies the whole song, parted with a very cool drum beat, some damn excellent parps from some wind instruments in the background, bass strings, and pure brilliance from Nina's lyrics and voice, which not only carries the song but pushes it further and further onwards... and that bit in the middle, where it's just piano and clapping? No matter what mood I'm in, that always makes me smile. It was also used in The Thomas Crown Affair... the updated version, with Pierce Brosnan in. Very cool film you all should watch.
3a) The Ecstasy of Gold - Ennio Morricone
Film music has always kinda inspired me. It's supposed to basically represent what's been put up on screen... a little side dish to the main meal, perhaps. But usually, a atmosphere that can stay with you as long as visions from the film can.
But the Spaghetti Western trilogy was very different. It's the only films that at least I know, where the music was written first, and then the film was directed to the music. I love the films, and I love the music.
Both the director [Sergio Leone] and Morricone were very visualistic, idealistic people, those that saw what they wanted in their minds, and put it down exactly as that.
The Ecstasy of Gold represents a scene in The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, where this character, after just about the whole film has passed, has finally come across the final burial place of a large amount of gold, a graveyard. The gold is buried in a grave, which they know the name of... and all that's left is for this man to search the entire graveyard to find this one grave. That alone is inspiring, but when shown along with this piece of music, it's absolutely incredible. Simply watching a man running around a graveyard, showing the emotion of finding gold so very soon, and the excellent harmonics and pick up of this brillaint piece of music has put so many ideas into my head it's amazing. The calm slow repetitiveness of a piano, followed by what sounds like a clarinet slowly piping a few notes that are then repeated by human voice... it's strangely beautiful, and sums up the feeling perfectly. If you haven't seen Good, Bad, Ugly, do so. It's a superb film, and it's nothing like what you expect it to be.
3b) The Trio - Ennio Morricone
I'm including these together, because that's how they should be listened to. Taken from the Good, The Bad, and The Ugly again. I love film music. :0)
This is played almost immedietely after The Ecstasy of Gold, which while Ecstasy sums up the feeling of final acceptance, life, and finding gold, obviously... The Trio plays on that, and is very much about death.
In a Few Dollars More, Morricone experimented with a theme of a certain tune being played every time somebody was about to die, shown in the Musical Pocket Watch that the badguy kept around with him. "When the music stops playing, take out your gun and shoot".
Simple repetitiveness. It summed up the feeling of the moment, as it slowly faded away to nothing. At any second it could fade... and then you simply accepted that was your fate. Beautiful music to die to, a small smile could creep across your face, and by the time the music finished, you didn't care about going for your gun, and you were shot. Watch the last standout scene in For a Few Dollars More to see what I mean.
But the repetitiveness I think Morricone learned from, as well as a few other little tricks. This swaying melody, which plays basically over and over... along with a little "pick up". Not designed to depress anyone into acceptance that they're going to die... in fact, the opposite. By using the repetitiveness, and then using the small guitar plucking to pick the music back up, it's almost as if they're fighting a battle within their mind. One voice telling them "no, this is it. Like hell are you going to get your gun out in time", and another "shut up, shut up, you can do it, come on, stay awake."
Again, beautiful direction straight from music by Sergio Leone. Watch this film!
4) The Great Gig in the Sky - Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd are very cool. Sheep is one of my favourite songs, I think... Wish You Were Here, Shine on you Crazy Diamond, Time, Comfortably Numb, Eclipse, One of These Days... all great songs. They're perfectionists at music, I kinda imagine them listening to their songs over and over again, listening to see if there's one second of the song that they don't really like, so they can go back and record something to make it sound a bit better.
But they did one song that was pure genius from start to finish. I really can't say much more than that about it. Female vocals screaming these enchanting, complicated enough to make it even seem random tunes... accompanied by wisping piano chords... which explode into this amazing ball, altogether sounding the most complex and wonderful piece of music ever written. The type of music that shuts up any single piece of thinking you might be doing, and crams the whole experience of listening to such a song right down your throat and into your soul. Pure music.
If you've never listened to Pink Floyd, please do. Music like this doesn't come around often. Go buy Echoes. So good.
5) Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Uh oh. It's classical music.
How is classical music described though? Something an orchestra can play, I suppose. And no lyrics.
Looking back at my list, I've got three songs with no real lyrics in. Ecstasy of Gold doesn't, neither does The Trio. Great Gig in the Sky doesn't. Sinnerman only uses lyrics as a tune, not to really mean anything... and just about the same with Paranoid Android.
So what's the difference?
Normally, I can hardly stand classical music. Most of it is by composers up their own wrong ends, Beethoven is a perfect example. Pathetic "bah bah bahs" that continue over and over, getting stronger, and apparently meaning something. Yeah, he was deaf, but I'm not clapping him for that.
Really though, if you think Beethoven is the pinacle of classical music, you've got a hell of a lot to learn, as did I.
I would love to be able to write music. It's something I've desired for a long time... the ability to put emotion into black dots. It's utterly incredible how somebody can think of music in such a way, to be able to play it through their head, and then write it down, somehow.
One thing I can do though, at least, is come up with stories, ideas... things I can use somehow. I just hope that something can come along and inspire me.
This piece of music is THE most inspiring thing I've ever encountered. Apart from being utterly relaxing... if I clear my mind, it transports me to lands far away, lands I didn't even know I could imagine. It's much like opening the very top of my head, allowing it to breath for a change.
If you've ever seen a sunset and wondered at it's beauty, this is it. If you've ever fallen in love and stayed awake all night thinking about your love... this is it. This is seeing something that takes your breath away, and then returns it to you, and asks where you want to go.
I can't really describe this music, because it's more complicated than I can possibly imagine. I wish I could tell you what it's allowed me to imagine, but I'm hoping to tell you another way.
Please get it, download it, somehow. This is what I'm going to base something very special to me on, so you better get to know it. :0)
Christ I've wrote a lot.
If I was allowed more than five, I would also have put Perfect Blue Buildings and Mrs Potters Lullaby by the Counting Crows in, and U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love)
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