81 posts tagged “music”
How does it feel
To treat me like you do
When you've laid your hands upon me
And told me who you are
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I offer thanks to those before me
Thats all I've got to say
cause maybe you squandered big bucks in your lifetime
Now I have to pay
But then again it feels like some sort of inspiration
To let the next life off the hook
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Once upon a midnight dearie
I woke with something in my head
I couldnt escape the memory
Of a phone call and of what you said
Like a game show contestant with a parting gift
I could not believe my eyes
wow. that is so much of the lyric it has to be a dead giveaway as to the song... I must be getting soft if I'm making these THIS easy.
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By the way, this week's NTT has a theme. See if you can figure it out.
You say that we've got nothing in common
No common ground to start from
And we're falling apart
You'll say the world has come between us
Our lives have come between us
But I know you just don't care
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One day I'm gonna write a poem in a letter
One day I'm gonna get that faculty together
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Most Recent NTT answers:
28.01.08 - I Think I'm Paranoid - Garbage
29.01.08 - Should I Stay or Should I Go - The Clash
30.01.08 - Creep - Radiohead
31.01.08 - In Bloom - Nirvana
01.02.08 - Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers
So if you had asked me last week, I'd have told you I didn't really like Matchbox 20 (don't hate them, just feel rather 'meh' about them generally), and that Alanis Morissette had let herself go to hell since her best work on Jagged Little Pill.
So why the fuck did I take a friend's spare ticket to see them in concert tonight?
Well, a few reasons. 1. hanging out with friends is fun. I'll even go to a baseball game (gah!) to hang out with friends and eat overpriced pretzels. 2. Jagged Little Pill was a pretty great album. So seeing Alanis would be cool. 3. I really like music a lot. And seeing a live show sounded fun - its not like i go to concerts all the time and was tired of them - I've only seen one in the last four years I think.
I am sooooooo glad I went. Both Alanis and Matchbox 20 ROCK. Seriously. I don't know why the radio plays such watered down crap, but live, they were both awesome. I had a great time. I'd even pay to go see them again.
This got me thinking about live music in general. I remember long ago seeing the band Live on Saturday Night Live and being totally impressed with them. But I had one of their CD's and I only liked one song on it. I never could reconcile that in my brain, how they could be so good on SNL but so bad on the CD. But now I realize that there simply are musicians that deliver outstanding live shows, regardless of what studio production does to their music. (NOTE: Violent Femmes is not one of those bands. Albums, good. Live shows, not so much) So I'm going to try to go see more live music this year, bands I love, bands I'm ambivalent about, bands I've never heard of. I'm sure I'll see some crap and some things I'll hate. But if a few shows are surprisingly great like tonight, that will be totally worth it.
soooo... I'm listening to a playlist of songs on my Zune from Rock Band in the car with the kids, and when Ballroom Blitz ends, my four year old starts saying 'its, its, a blallroom blitz. its, its a blallroom blitz'. (yes, she has an extra L in there). Then she asks me to play the song again, which I do for her. We get home before the song is over, and she asks if we can sit in the car in the garage and listen to the rest of it.
I am about to blow her mind with Rock Band on the xbox 360.
I got an iPod for my birthday last year. I love my iPod. It is sleek, shiny, sexy. Unfortunately I FUCKING HATE ITUNES FOR WINDOWS!!! Worst. Software. Ever. EVER.
Current Zune's aren't quite as pretty as iPods, but the custom engraving on the back is just about the coolest thing ever. And the software is incredibly easy to use. Best of all, with the marketplace subscription, I can download any music I want for just $15/month, which is so totally worth it. I can check out new artists and albums and if i don't like them, I just delete them. Nothing lost. I like owning hard media, so I still buy CD's for the ones I like, and love that the risk of buying something I end up not liking has been removed.
KymPossible's Mission Music is now housed on this:
the lyrics were in last week's NTT if they look familiar. And OF COURSE I went with the pirate Valentine image (technically it's named 'Toxic'). That can't possibly be a surprise to anyone who knows me.
Final day of Rock Band week here at NTT...
She's a runner, rebel and a stunner
Oh her merry way sayin' baby whatcha gonna
Lookin' down the barrel of a hot metal forty five
Just another way to survive
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