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Yay, it’s February!
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Thanks to everyone involved in this project!
LATEST UPDATE 2/3 – AMOUR MONTH DAY #3 Fiona Apple 4 pack
VOCALS: BornGamerRob
STANDARD KEYS: EmotionalFlight
While she was polishing off the final lineup of songs for that first album in the recording studio, Apple’s label, Sony Music, asked for a “more obvious” first single. So she sat down at the piano, pounded out some C-minor chords in what we can imagine was a defiant, I’ll-show-them-a-goddamned-obvious-single huff and began:“I’ve been a bad, bad girl…”“Criminal” is the most successful single of Apple’s career. It spent 20 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, propelled sales of Tidal to more than 3 million copies, and got her music noticed by the kinds of people who give out Grammy and MTV awards.
BASS: egead
VOCALS: BornGamerRob
STANDARD KEYS: EmotionalFlight
Led by a blinding, jazz/rock/fusion rhythm, “Fast As You Can” is appropriately titled, and it sweeps by the listener in a musical blur. A quick series of jazzy chordings somehow keep the song together, despite the blinding tempo. Broken up by a brilliant and well-executed bridge in a slow, almost blues-pop motif, the song acts as a near mini-suite before returning to the fusion fury of the verses. Admonishing the subject in the song to break free of the relationship with her, this surely autobiographical song has a great sense of recrimination, with Apple’s usual strong feeling of defiance and individuality.
BASS: egead
VOCALS: BornGamerRob
STANDARD KEYS: Bansheeflyer
A stark melody strung round minor chords begins “Limp,” and the listener is drawn in to what he or she may think is a downcast, blusey ballad. Yet, following this brief introduction, a strong rhythm quickly emerges and the song becomes something else entirely. Crossing jazz with a funky rock pattern, the rhythm surges with a sense of defiance that Fiona Apple has made a trademark. Aggressive and taking no prisoners, Apple lays her emotions out into the air with a brilliant candor. It’s inappropriate to call this a simple break-up song, as the lyrics paint an accurate portrait of recrimination and resolution. The song shifts back into the opening, soft passage and this allows the song to breathe more like a mini-suite. Drummers get ready for an honest to goodness drum solo where 2 drum parts are playing. Don’t worry I only charted one.
BASS: egead
VOCALS: BornGamerRob
STANDARD KEYS: EmotionalFlight
What makes us say terrible, almost comically mean things to our loved ones? “‘What is this posture I have to stare at?’ That’s what he said when I was sitting up straight!” Apple complains in “Not About Love,” a song about the brutal war of words that can erupt in relationships gone bad. In a song filled with killer lines, Apple drops one of her best ones by describing the phenomenon thusly: “Conservation once colored by esteem / became dialogue as a diagram of a play for blood.” “Not About Love” looks forward to the stripped-down sound Apple would perfect on The Idler Wheel — it’s all piano, rumbling base, a few well-timed power chords and muscular, propulsive drumming courtesy of song-MVP Questlove.I have to hand it to you… I like to think I have eclectic taste, but, man, you’re sure in the running to have me voluntarily surrender that self-proclaimed title to you. Releases from Chicago to Frank Zappa to Megadeth to Fiona Apple… my brain.
I’ll admit I missed the Apple
wagoncart for whatever reason, but I previewed all four of these songs and immediately downloaded them. That lack of guitar is scratching my Ben Folds Five itch. I look forward to playing them.I applaud you for your continued quality releases from every genre. Something for everybody!
I have to hand it to you… I like to think I have eclectic taste, but, man, you’re sure in the running to have me voluntarily surrender that self-proclaimed title to you. Releases from Chicago to Frank Zappa to Megadeth to Fiona Apple… my brain.
I’ll admit I missed the Apple
wagoncart for whatever reason, but I previewed all four of these songs and immediately downloaded them. That lack of guitar is scratching my Ben Folds Five itch. I look forward to playing them.I applaud you for your continued quality releases from every genre. Something for everybody!
About the only popular genres you won’t see from me is country and reggae .Other than that I’m a seeker of good music from anyone and everyone. Fiona is one of the greatest arstist with the least output unfortunately but she always delivers even if it takes 5 years for a new album.
LATEST UPDATE 2/4 – AMOUR MONTH DAY #4 Beach Boys 4 pack
GUITAR: wingsoveramerica
BASS/VOCALS: EchoOfMystery
“Darlin’” is one of Wilson’s strongest works for the late ‘60s. It embraces a horn-driven Motown soul sound, which works surprisingly well for the group’s vocal harmony style. Carl Wilson’s voice has the right kind of energy to make the lyrics come alive and Wilson’s arrangement ensures that even with the new direction, “Darlin’” still sounds like a Beach Boys track. Most importantly, though, the melody remains one of Wilson’s most elegant to date.
GUITAR: wingsoveramerica
BASS/VOCALS: EchoOfMystery
“Funky Pretty” is a cosmic love song to an astrological lovely woman, it mounts its grit in a swirl of harmonic complications, again underlining Blondie Chaplin’s more straightforward vocal dexterity with a defiantly baroque choral signature: Vivaldi meets the Regents on a magic synthesizer. It makes for a beautiful track, built on economical and even monotonous musical premises that delight in their unreasonably complex development.
BASS/VOCALS: EchoOfMystery
STANDARD KEYS: StackOverflow0x
Although underappreciated, this excellent ballad is, in hindsight, one of the highlights of the on and off again Brian Wilson/Mike Love collaboration. Deeply heartfelt lyrics and an air of grace surrounding the melody make it easily one of the finest tunes on the Wild Honey album. Utilizing the metaphor of nature to relate to the essence of love, the song has a certain poetic feel surrounding it that is undeniable. Carl’s excellent and unrestrained lead vocal may be one of his finest recorded pieces.
GUITAR: wingsoveramerica/mrcoupdetat
BASS/VOCALS: EchoOfMystery
“We Got Love” was originally recorded and penciled in for inclusion on 1973’s Holland, but the laid-back rocker didn’t make that release and instead makes its debut here. It’s really a shame it didn’t because it’s a strong showing from all the boys. Guitar is very interesting throughout with leads and licks a plenty.Wow man you’re on fire! Some serious deep cuts here.
If we’re talking Beach Boys and love, I would have hoped for ‘Surfer Girl’ or ‘Disney Girls’, but those are great too… thanks!
Wow man you’re on fire! Some serious deep cuts here.
If we’re talking Beach Boys and love, I would have hoped for ‘Surfer Girl’ or ‘Disney Girls’, but those are great too… thanks!
Thanks I love this whole album. The line up lasted only a few years but I think it’s the best one next to the original band of the 60’s.
Thanks for the Beach Boys release, we are lucky to get these tracks! Simply stunning work, very cool picks…
LATEST UPDATE 2/5 – AMOUR MONTH DAY #5 Of Montreal
GUITAR: Whizzer
VOCALS: EchoOfMystery
STANDARD KEYS: Bansheeflyer
If Paul McCartney was born a few decades later he probably would have wrote this song. The music is straight out of Revolver and Sgt. Pepper but it’s not a rip off. It’s a beautifully crafted piece of piano pop with baroque instrumentation. The lyrics describe the simple love of a girl and her dog.LATEST UPDATE 2/6 – AMOUR MONTH DAY #6 Derek & The Dominos – Bell Bottom Blues
GUITAR/BASS: bsbloom
VOCALS: EchoOfMystery
Eric Clapton wrote the music for the one and only Derek and the Dominos album while still completely obsessed with Pattie Boyd. “Bell Bottom Blues” was the first song he finished for the project. “Pattie asked me to get her some pairs of these jeans we used to call Landlubbers,” Clapton wrote in his memoir. “Which were hipsters with two little slip pockets at the front. She had asked for flared rather than straight bottoms.” That simple request led to one of the all-time great unrequited love songs in rock history, and Clapton’s anguish is painfully clear in every note of this song.Stopping in late, but thanks for the last few releases. Diggin’ your picks from ‘Slowhand’ and the Beach Boys!
Stopping in late, but thanks for the last few releases. Diggin’ your picks from ‘Slowhand’ and the Beach Boys!
Slow hand????
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