Lately I find myself really getting into strong guitar songs and adult voices. Thin, reedy voices... I get that they appeal to some folk, but I've always liked powerful tastes in food, powerful colors in art and powerful sound. Perhaps its because i'm trying to learn guitar (Well, I say I am, but Im usually too damn tired or dirty to do much lately. Ain't life a bitch.) so, I'll be posting some things I like that keep to the strength theme.
-------------------- Damn you, you kids! Get off my lawn or I'm callin' tha cops!
They Might Be Giants - Join Us Tragically Hip - Fully Completely (honestly I didn't switch off of this disc for a good week or more). Jimmy Fallon - Blow Your Pants Off Ramones - Adios Amigos! Bob Marley and the Wailers - Live! Gorillaz - Gorillaz
From: Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada | Registered: Sep 2004
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Today I listened to selected songs from Morrissey's 2004 comeback album "You Are the Quarry." The album is half-brilliant, with some of the best songs of his career...
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or you can do the confusion 'til your head falls off
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T-Bone Burnett's first eponymous LP.
My receiver was already going, now the turntable is going, too.
I hate being broke!
-------------------- Hey, Kids! My "Cranky and Kitschy" collage art is now viewable on flickr. Drop by and tell me that I sent you.
From: Vanity, OR | Registered: Dec 2008
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We had the radio on a so-called classics station last night (so-called because music I listened to as a teen is no classic yet damn it!!)
Anyways, lots of great songs but the highlight was "Lonely is the Night" followed by "Sister Christian"
From: Fort McMurray | Registered: Nov 2004
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"Follow You, Follow Me" was the first Genesis song I ever heard. It still pulls at the heart strings.
(And they look so young . . .)
My favorite Genesis song is Land of Confusion, in part because of the irresistible Splitting Image video but also because the song expresses the frustrations of the Reagan era/Cold War wind-down.
I love the lines, "I won't be home tonight/Our generation will put it right." They sound almost hopelessly naive but also optimistic for the future.
-------------------- The Semi-Great Gildersleeve - writing, super-heroes, and this 'n' that
From: The Stasis Zone | Registered: Jul 2003
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Even when Genesis wasn't rocking hard, they packed a lot of emotion, inventiveness, and even silliness into their music.
Here's another favorite, Abacab. The title comes from the chords of the song!
-------------------- The Semi-Great Gildersleeve - writing, super-heroes, and this 'n' that
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There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
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I Can't Dance is just awesomely catchy for me, it gets stuck in my head all the time.
Home by the Sea is another favorite. I have no idea what it's about, but I was reading a lot of Poe (Annabelle Lee, in her sepulchre by the sea...) and Lovecraft when it came out, and the song creeped me out with lines like 'shadows with no substance, in the shape of men.'
I liked Tonight, Tonight, Tonight until it became a beer jingle...
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