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Bettye Lavette - Talking Old Soldiers: An absolutely amazing song. It’s hard to add much to this. A cover of an Elton John song (which I now have to lookup), it’s dark and bitter. I like it. It's funny I remember, oh, five or six years ago I'd say I'd stand right here at this bar with my friends who passed away And drink three times the wine I can drink today Yup, I know how it feels to grow old I know what they're sayin' son There goes...; posted @ Tuesday, January 31, 2012 10:55 PM | Feedback (0)

Jeff Beck – Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers: As partial penance for a previous post (say that five times fast), here’s a seminal guitar instrumental. I saw Jeff Beck once, appearing in a bill with SRV about 6 months before the helicopter crash. A great concert, even greater in retrospect given what happened. He’s one of the few guitarists that I know of that uses tone to signify change in emotion as effectively as he does (David Gilmour is probably the only other guitarist that uses this technique regularly. That I know of, of course.). There are many other YouTube videos of him performing this...; posted @ Monday, January 30, 2012 8:25 PM | Feedback (0)

Guilty Musical Pleasure : Colbie Caillat – Fallin’ for You: I like Colbie Caillat’s music. There I’ve said it. I realize that I’m not her target demographic. I also realize this is somewhat disturbing, if not downright creepy. But dammit, I can’t help it. There is a particular cognitive dissonance when the shuffle play on my Zune pairs this with, say, King Crimson, but what can you do. I've been spending all my..time Just thinking about ya I don't know what to do I think I'm fallin' for you I've been waiting all my.. life...; posted @ Saturday, January 21, 2012 10:47 PM | Feedback (0)

Wilco – One Wing (Live): Wilco is a Chicago band, so I suppose I should like them more than most for that fact. I don’t, but they continue to provide amazing songs, so what the hell. Enjoy. We may as well be made of stone We can’t be flown One wing will never fly Neither yours nor mine, I fear We can only wave goodbye; posted @ Friday, December 02, 2011 9:30 PM | Feedback (0)

Talk Talk – The Rainbow and After The Flood, not remotely live: Trying to describe what the later works of Talk Talk are like is difficult to do. They are…different. As a quotation from Wikipedia states, (they are) “the kind of record which encourages marketing men to commit suicide.” Depending on how you feel about marketing, this might be seen as a positive or a negative. Listening to one or two songs, you are likely to find that you like most or all of it, or feel something quite the opposite. Not because all of the songs sound the same, but because there’s a common sensibility to them, whatever that...; posted @ Tuesday, November 22, 2011 11:14 PM | Feedback (0)

John Mellencamp – What If I Came Knocking (Live): At least I think it is live. The sound is so tight that it wouldn’t surprise me if there was some over-dubbing involved, but it doesn’t appear to be so. Fantastic guitar work in this one. So let's just say it worked outLike a storybook dreamAnd we lived happily ever afterFa la la laBut what if I came cryingAfter just a few weeksAnd I said misread my heartThis is not really meant to be? Yeah Enjoy.; posted @ Tuesday, November 15, 2011 8:22 PM | Feedback (0)

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals – Big White Gate (Live): Sometimes you come across a band and wonder to yourself “where the hell have they been, how did I miss this?” and this, for me is one of them. They are on tour for their current album (which I actually don’t like as much as their 2007 release, which is why I’m posting this one), and I actually looked into driving 10+ hours to see them, but it doesn’t work out. Anyway, damn can she sing. Saint peter won't you open up the big white gate Cause i heard about forgiveness and i hope...; posted @ Sunday, August 28, 2011 7:28 PM | Feedback (0)

Misheard Lyrics – Pearl Jam – Yellow Ledbetter: After spending a week’s vacation in Canada with my family (Kingston, where I was born, Montreal and Quebec City….I’d never been to Quebec City, and especially enjoyed it), I was driving my sister and her husband to the airport when this song came on the radio and we all began ‘singing’ it, which of course meant muttering random and incoherent sentences, because no one can really tell what the hell Eddie Vedder is actually singing. Anyway, she forwarded to me this video which explains it perfectly. As one commenter said, “whats so hard to understand that he doesnt want...; posted @ Wednesday, August 24, 2011 11:29 AM | Feedback (0)

Poi Dog Pondering – Simple Song: A while ago, I posted about a song that I had heard once on the radio, never since, and couldn’t find through Google anywhere. A couple of weeks ago, I decided to try and find it again, and was able to. Sort of. The main lyric that I ‘remembered’ was: “I haven’t said grace at dinner/Since the day my father died” which drew nothing useful on Google (well, except for a bunch of personal stories on various peoples’ blogs, which may or may not be useful depending on your life circumstances). It turns out that I had...; posted @ Saturday, July 09, 2011 6:12 PM | Feedback (0)

The Airborne Toxic Event – Sometime Around Midnight (Live): side note: there are other, better, versions of them playing the song (this version is slightly shortened and the lead singer fails to hit the Note O’ Desperation ™ in the last verse), but almost all of them seem to include ads that run before the video. Is this just random, or is it something YouTube is doing across the board? There’s nothing like finding a video you want to watch and then having to wait 15 seconds determining whether or not you want to buy a Ford F150. The particular lyrics involve the death of a bar room...; posted @ Monday, June 20, 2011 9:29 PM | Feedback (0)

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