Friday, May 24, 2013
Rage Against The Machine
This week we listened to a little of Rage, and watched one or two or their music videos. This reminded me of how much I enjoyed Rage, and liked listening to them. I truly can't say that I'm a huge fan because I only have their album Battle Los Angles, and Bulls on Parade. Although I have listened to Battle Los Angles so many times that I could sing along to most of the vocals. Calm like a bomb, Maria, and Mic check are some of my favorite songs from that album, and listening to them this week has rekindled that spark that I have for them, and has made me listen to them which is something that I haven't done in a while. And of coarse Bulls on Parade is a great song and worthy of listening to anytime. The opening of that song has so much energy and is just great, with the guitar, bass, and drums. I should look into more of their old songs and albums, I'm sure there just as good.
OutKast
For one of the last weeks in music history we listened to many different artists, but one that stood out to me and that I hadn't heard much of was OutKast. Really the only song that I've heard from them and knew it was OutKast was Hey Ya. I personally liked this song when I had heard it before, and still liked it when we watched the music video in class. The song was really catchy, and simple enough that you could sing along to it. The other music video we watched of them I had never seen before, and it was ok. Very interesting, but I can see how they peaked and then fell out of the music scene. I am defiantly not an OutKast fan, and will most likely never be.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
James
The artist that I am writing about this week for the Independent blog is Trinidad James. As I'm sitting here writing this I can't really believe that I'm writing about him because he's really not that good of an artist and the song is okay, but is not great. This song I heard on the radio, and after about the third time I listened, I shazamed it and find out what the name of it was. Don't get me wrong the songs alright and I don't want to hate too much was home. It has a good beat and is it repetitive, but the second half of it is more of an electronic base type of music which I like. With the female voice that is in it when you're cruising down the street this song is alright to listen to, and I listen to it any day. As for the rest of Trinidad James, I know that has a song called 'gold on everything' and is also quite popular but ,is also epetitive with the N-word.
Tear
This week for the in class blog, on Tuesday I showed up late due to sleeping in and I showed up right after I believe, that you played creep by Radiohead. I was pretty bummed out here about that because I really like that song, and would've enjoyed it. After that we listened to some Massive Attack and especially that song Teardrop which I really liked. I have heard that song before but you know, not really heard much of any their songs. And the best part in my opinion was today when we turned off the lights and listened to the whole album. Also what I really liked was learning the history of the group and hearing how they started out originally separate doing rave music and slowing it down for the changing drug scene. I had never thought of this before and it was just interesting. The part I liked about today in the quiet was laying on the floor and really listening to the music. With no phones and low-level lighting, It was a good good day. I thought Brooks would chime in there at one point and lay down with me but he never did.
Friday, May 10, 2013
Scumbag brain
When I was rolling in my car this week and singing a long to my songs it hit me. That realistically I memorize more of my song lyrics then I have any academic things regarding school. And I personally think that that is very interesting. When I hit shuffle and go through my songs I honestly can sing along to most of them. I may only have about 600 songs on my phone but if you asked me to recite most literary terms, or math formulas or the presidents of United States in order, or anything else like thatI most likely could not. It's not that I am not a smart man, and I'm not trying to fluff my own feathers, but it just seems that way. I guess the repetition for listening to the songs has made it so I have memorized them, which in actuality makes sense because repetition is the best form of learning. I just found that interesting and since I really haven't discovered in the new music this past week I blow some steam from my brain.
ACL
This Monday the first thing in class that we talked about was the ACL lineup. As soon as we started talking about it I immediately lost interest because I do not care about it. I have heard people talking about it, and a lot of my friends are going but to me it just is not appeal. I'm sure when you're there the experience is fantastic, and actually I can't really say that it is not that great, due to the fact that I have never been. But with all those people around to listen to music that I can in the comfort of my own home does nothing for me. Especially when you consider that you can watch the live feed on YouTube and not have to deal with the heat, parking, the cost of tickets, and the cost of food and whatnot. I may sound like a broken record, but I just want to say again that I don't care.
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Chili
I was excited to find out that we were going to listen to the Red Hot Chili Peppers in class on Tuesday. I had heard of them before but never listened to this album all the way through before. However this album did seem quite long. There were songs that I was familiar with and others that I had never heard before. I liked just about all of it. And especially enjoyed the songs that I were familiar with and knew the beat. I couldn't believe hearing about the history of the band how they had been preforming so long before they were really discovered and became popular. 10 years with little to no recognition must have been very hard. And I couldn't believe how many bandmembers they went through. It seemed like they got a new guitarist left and right.
Crash
While trying to think of something to write for my personal music blog. I was just messing around on Pandora, and happened to click on a station, that I hadn't listened to in a while. Just trying to find some new music to write about. And it just so happened that the soundtrack from the movie crash started to play. No normally I wouldn't think anything of this and would most likely skip ahead to the next song. But it just so happened that we are in fact watching that movie crash, and my sociology class currently. Now I have never seen this movie before but while watching it in class it turned out to be a very good movie and I look forward to finishing it. And on the music side of things, the soundtrack was surprisingly good and very calming music. I don't remember hearing any specific songs and matching them up to scenes from the movie but this music seems like it could in fact have been from this movie, and would have fit in well.
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