walrus plays saxophone

... and that says it all.




He should play the blues for his lost bukket.

One (word)

Please, please listen to this very short song and then tell me what you think. I heard it wrong the first time (I'll say how after the lyrics).

One
One
One
One or two won't do
Cos I want it all
And a sip
A sip
A sip or a spoonful won't do
No, I want it all
And I hope
I hope
Hope you know what I'm thinking of
I want all of your love
I need all of your love

She said "If love
If Love
Is a posion cup
Then drink it up"
"Cos a sip
A sip
Or a spoonful won't do
Won't do nothing for you
Except mess you up"

And I hope
I hope
Hope you know what this means
I'm gonna give you everything
I'm gonna give you everything


I didn't hear the "if" in the "she said" verse, and I wrote it off to another sad song about a demented lover in a relationship that will never work. But something made me listen again, and the addition of the word "if" means so much to the song. It changes it from a depressing song to a sweet inspiring ditty that makes you want to love, and to hurt if you have to and really give it everything. Reminiscent of Moulin Rouge-- just being in love with Love, you know?

"If." What a word.

Summertime

This my jam.

Hobo Saint

"Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that." — Steve Earle.



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Nothin's what it seems, maybe she'll start someday to realize
If she abandons her dreams then all the words she can say are only lies
When will she see that to gain is only to lose
All that she offers me are her chains, I got to refuse
It's only to herself that she's lied
She likes to pretend there's something that she should defend with her pride
I don't intend to stand her and be the friend from whom she must hide
Maybe she just has to sing for the sake of the song
Who do I think that I am to decide that she's wrong

Kiss me, I'm needy

Just in time for green beer and binge drinking!

Below is a seeqpod playlist for St. Patrick's Day, and I put a seeqpod player in the sidebar for your listening pleasure.



Oh yeah, enjoy Lost tonight! It's better than ever.

Hogging the Covers

I love cover songs. I love hearing a different treatment of the original material, and I love hearing an artist honor or mock or wax ironic with their choice of what to cover. I love it when they play a song that I might not have ever heard of, and I love it when they play a song that I know by heart.

That in mind, and slightly inspired by My Old Kentucky Blog's ongoing "covers project," which is really cool, I am posting a few covers that I'm listening to this morning. I'm telling you guys, if finding and playing music and videos fast and easy is cool, consider seeqpod Miles Davis.



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testing

Just checking this out-- I use seeqpod a lot at work, and it looks like there's an embeddable player now. So enjoy the my Dylan list. I listen to it probably six times a week.


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Dudes!

My favorite band/alter ego just announced a Holiday Tour!

I'm so stoked! I hear they've been working on a lot of new material, and I hear that every note is perfection.

See you all soon.

Buy the sky and sell the sky

For no reason other than I have a few minutes and I'm listening to them now, I'm posting a list of my favorite REM songs.

No priority to the order-- just a bunch that I enjoyed over the years.

The Great Beyond
I am Superman
Man in the Moon
The One I Love
Nightswimming
Radio Free Europe
Fall on Me
Gardening at Night
Finest Worksong
What's the frequency, Kenneth?
Don't Go Back to Rockville
Strange Currencies

Try Not to Breathe

Find the River

Sweetness Follows

Anyone like others, not like these? drop me a comment!

You can listen to a seeqpod playlist with most of these here.

Bugs Eat Books

This is a nice song and funny video.

Everyone I know is in the fight of their life

share it witcha

I had this song in my head and it takes about 45 seconds to share it with you, so here ya go.

Cattle Lick

I hear this song ALL THE TIME, so I'm happy to see it get a bit skewered online.

Yeah, I'll do it. (Music History 101J)

Good meme, Adam.

I'm just going to have to hit the biggest influences, because there are so many and I only have patience with talking about myself for so long.

First thing I remember I was lying in my bed, couldn't have been no more than one or two...

Paul Simon is probably my earliest musical memory.

My dad was a big fan of his solo years, so I remember hearing a lot of his stuff, from One-Trick Pony to There Goes Rhymin' Simon to Graceland.




...I need somebody... Not just anybody...

Next (chronologically), I'd have to say it's a tie between The Beach Boys and The Beatles. I listened to a LOT of both while I was around 10-13. Mostly The Beatles' The White Album and The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds and Best of the Beach Boys.

A Freak Without Warning

What's next? Oh yeah, puberty. Listening to 2 Live Crew at a friend's house (his mom was cool and I never saw his dad...), shouting out "Nobody move, nobody get hurt" (Eazy-E) on the bus to seventh grade. I remember getting a few albums taken away during those years.

I also remember sneaking around to watch channel 43(?), The Box, and free user-requested music videos. Nothin' But a 'G' Thang freaked me out. It was scary and racy and different, which adds up to fun.

...Likes to shoot his gun/But he don't know what it means...
What better time could there have been for Grunge to come along? I was entranced by the world I saw on the movie Singles, and -BAM- Grunge and I were instant friends. Pearl Jam, Nirvana, STP, Alice in Chains... If it involved flannel shorts, I was into it..

I'm a picker, I'm a grinner, I'm a lover, and I'm a sinner

Around this point (Sophomore in HS), I moved to Colorado, which Becky will tell you is a little behind the times. It was mostly Classic Rock or Country, so I listened to a fair amount of the Steve Miller Band and Led Zeppelin. I learned to play guitar at this time, mostly by playing the aforementioned bands: Paul Simon, The Beatles, and other oldies.

That's great, it starts with an earthquake
But there was also a little Alternative Rock, and I dug it. As I learned to play guitar, I learned to play and really appreciate some of this non-rock rock. Smashing Pumpkins, Hole, Alice in Chains (yeah, I know I listed them under Grunge-- you tell me where they belong). There was also some U2 (from before this period -- exclusively Joshua Tree and Rattle and Hum), a lot of R.E.M., Hootie and the Blowfish, and the like.

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During high school I also got into some early jazz, mostly Bop (credit my infatuation with Beat culture), but nothing to really write about.

Buffet Pants

With my entry to college came an introduction to lots of new music. My roomie freshman year was a big SoCal punk fan, so I got a brief intro to Social D, NOFX, and Pennywise, but I didn't know what to do with it.

Other college friends introduced me to Britpop (Teenage Fanclub, Air, Travis) and I didn't really care for it but pretended to like it.

There was a lot of pained soul-searching (duh, it's college), so I listened to a lot of Counting Crows. A lot of Counting Crows.

The internet allowed me to explore lots of genres I'd been curious about, so I logged some huge time listening to techno, house, and hardcore electronica. I'd recommend it for writing college papers.

After college, it was mostly hip-hop. Woody and Ed provided a lot of my exposure to various artists and I found some that I liked and some that I didn't.

Where have all the Rude Boys Gone?

Moving back to Colorado meant less exposure, but also less exposure to the mainstream. That's a good thing in a way. Over the past few years, I have been listening to a lot of surf music (Los Straitjackets and Pollo del Mar being the most prominent), indie stuff [Bright Eyes, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Grandaddy (before they went defunct), Ted Leo + Pharmacists], and punk (Dropkick Murphys)that I might never have discovered if I hadn't had to seek out new music.

My current number one band has to be Calexico. I highly recommend that everyone check them out.

There's still a lot of hip-hop in the mix, and I'm glad for that.

Jeez, I missed a lot. Oh well. You can never tell the whole story, eh?