Glenn Gould: Bach, Goldberg Variations
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.
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Amos Lee: Arms of a Woman
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.
Gregory Alan Isakov: Amsterdam Music Video
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.
The Soundtrack of Psychopaths
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?
Anderson East: The Devil in Me
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.
Lera Lynn: Least Favorite Life
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.
Joe Satriani: Satch Boogie
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.
Famous Songs Recreated Using Dialogue From Movies and TV
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”
Passenger: Fear of Fear
Fill my belly full of beer
Fill my nights with bad jokes
told by folks full of fear
Fill my eyes with a stinging
Fill my time with wishing she was here…
Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment, Featuring Chance the Rapper: Sunday Candy
“I like my love with a budget, I like my hugs with a scent
You smell like light, gas, water, electricity, rent”
Smallpools: Dreaming
I kind of hate the video. But it’s the best version of the song online, so there you go. I’m not overly proud of the fact that I’m listening to these songs, because they’re just so damn exuberant and happy. And the type of music I gravitate towards is typically much more mellow and slower.
Elle King: Kocaine Karolina
Partly, it’s the banjo. But I’ve had this looping a fair amount in the background, off and on this week. The lyric “Every morning you wake up alone, just the same. / Who’d want to live longer, anyway?” kind of got stuck in my head, this past week.
The Lone Bellow: Marietta
I have been playing this song into the ground lately. There are a few tracks by The Lone Bellow that have really caught my ear, and this one so far is my favorite.
Laura Veirs: Jailhouse Fire
It’s been a long while since I’ve encountered a song that uses the word “fire” as its main rhyme. Veirs pulls it off well, where you don’t really fixate a lot on the word – and it comes up both naturally and quickly in the song.
The Lone Bellow: Watch Over Us
I’ve been a little behind on the new music that came out this week on Rdio, but happened across a group called The Lone Bellow. Still checking out the songs on the album, but I immediately got hooked on Watch Over Us.