EDEN: Billie Jean

This is a weird one. I’m not sure how I happened across this song – possibly through one of Spotify’s playlists. I was never a huge Michael Jackson fan, but I found myself really hooked on this cover by EDEN.
This is a weird one. I’m not sure how I happened across this song – possibly through one of Spotify’s playlists. I was never a huge Michael Jackson fan, but I found myself really hooked on this cover by EDEN.
Marianne I don’t wanna wait,
the chapel’s full but the preacher’s late.
There’s flies around our cake,
could you shut the door?
I love that someone took the time to do this, and pieced the entire song together from random bits of dialogue. It’s super geeky, and makes me think of a quotation from Teller, who said “Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.”
I have a propensity to get worked up (and stressed out) over really stupid, trivial stuff. One morning in December, my wife reminded me through her singing that I should just ease up a little bit. And that’s ultimately what ifeelstressedout.com is all about. If you’re feeling stressed out, maybe this will help a little.
“Whenever I’m alone with you, can’t talk
Isn’t this weather nice? Aren’t you okay?
Should I go somewhere else and hide my face?”
I know absolutely nothing about the group Intervals, and just happened to stumble across their latest album on Rdio last week. This isn’t the kind of music I tend to gravitate towards (mostly I skew towards slower/acoustic songs). But this track, “I’m Awake” caught on.
So hey. This was a weird and kooky project idea. You decided on something else, so this is partially paused and partially abandoned.
This is giving me a great deal of pleasure today. Though I’m not a huge fan of classical music, I’m listening to Glenn Gould play Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
While we were overseas, it became habitual to always check to make sure we weren’t using too much bandwidth on our phones. We got a package from our phone provider to cover a certain amount during our travels, but the only reason we kept under the amount was through an almost obsessive amount of WiFi checking and turning on/off.
With our upcoming travels, Amsterdam is one of our first stops. And despite the closing lyrics, hearing this song has gotten me slowly ready for our trip.
A few times, I took a step back and wondered what others might have thought of me… had they been able to hear this incessant looping of this crazy song. Once or twice is a kind of novelty, but to have it playing over and over again for 30 minutes? For an hour? For multiple hours?
There are a few versions of him performing this song as of right now, but none of them are that great (the audio seems to be off/quiet on many of them). There’s a version that’s just him on the guitar, which is pretty decent. But the song really needs that piano (and the female backup singers), in my opinion.
This is not really a song I would gravitate towards normally, to play over and over. It’s not a pick-me-up tune, that’s for sure. It’s like the idea thing you would play, if you were sitting down for a meal of Quaaludes and sadness. But by god, I just can’t stop listening to it.
Here’s a song called “Satch Boogie,” by Joe Satriani. He’s played this countless times since it came out in the mid-80’s… but it blew me away when I first heard it, on his album “Surfing with the Alien.” Probably my favorite song from that album.
The video (above) I mentioned a few years ago. But on recently returning to his Vimeo page, I found a ton of other great vids. Like this one of David Hasselhoff, performing the theme song to “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”