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I finally figured out how to work the FTP server for Postcard, and I'm downloding the St. Anne's 2002-12-07 Loose Fur show, and I'm so excited. I'm downloading Elliott Smith 1998-10-10 after this. I love concert bootlegs. You know, I think I might have felt the same things inside listening to the 1997-05-10 Wilco show at the Fillmore for the first time as I had being at the 2004-10-25 Orpheum show. There's just something about live music, whether you're there or not, that is completely awesome.
Something to Talk About - Badly Drawn Boy
What an amazing song. Totally sets the entire mood of About a Boy, one of the few movies that I totally didn't care about crying in front of my parents while watching. Part of the reason I cried was definitely because of how this song set the mood of the movie. I love the lyrics, and I love the melody. BDB has such a great way of creating arrangements; I listened to Have You Fed the Fish? for the first time today and it was a little over-lush for my tastes, but on the whole it was great. I remember playing this song in Chloe's room the Friday of Easter Break last year on her Dean Markley after watching About a Boy. It was too low for me and I couldn't remember most of the melody, but I love that feeling of playing a song you love.
You See Me Crying - Aerosmith
Aerosmith's first - but not last - studio experiment with an orchestra, and this one came off remarkably well. Closing Toys in the Attic, hands-down one of their best records, this song is overly dramatic in all the right places. I love the violin/guitar lead in at the beginning after the little piano riff, and the oboe that trails in at the end of that is nothing short of hilarious if you're not quite in the mood for the song. I used to get so anxious listening to that track because that indicated the end of the album, which meant that a new CD was up next. At this point (last time we had the attic story) I will share with you my music listening system for that same era:
My CDs were arranged alphabetically according to album title, so "Toys" would have been filed under T for "Toys," not A for "Aerosmith".
Let's say we selected this CD (Toys in the Attic) at the very beginning of this system. "Toys in the Attic" has 14 letters in the title, and "toys" itself has four letters. As we selected "Toys" we would then count four albums down the alphabet. Using my iTunes library, the second album selected would be my Wilco collection of non-album tracks (titled Unreleased in my library).
If I did not listen to "Toys" in its completion before the day was out, I would not listen to Unreleased the next day. Instead, I would count 14 albums down my list and select the next day's CD (according to iTunes, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco). The second CD selected, as "yankee" has 6 letters in it, would be Zoot Suit Riot, Cherry Poppin' Daddies - ew! 7th grade!.
If I listened to "Toys" in its completion before the day was out, I would move on to Unreleased. Regardless of the fact that Unreleased only has one word in it, I would not pick another album according to the first letters of this album title, rather, I would just wait until the completion of the album or the end of the day to select the next album (Wreck Your Life, Old 97's), and it's second thanks to the 5 letters in "wreck," You Are Free, Cat Power.
So that's primarily what "You See Me Crying" reminds me of.
I think just 2 songs is enough tonight.
Something to Talk About - Badly Drawn Boy
What an amazing song. Totally sets the entire mood of About a Boy, one of the few movies that I totally didn't care about crying in front of my parents while watching. Part of the reason I cried was definitely because of how this song set the mood of the movie. I love the lyrics, and I love the melody. BDB has such a great way of creating arrangements; I listened to Have You Fed the Fish? for the first time today and it was a little over-lush for my tastes, but on the whole it was great. I remember playing this song in Chloe's room the Friday of Easter Break last year on her Dean Markley after watching About a Boy. It was too low for me and I couldn't remember most of the melody, but I love that feeling of playing a song you love.
You See Me Crying - Aerosmith
Aerosmith's first - but not last - studio experiment with an orchestra, and this one came off remarkably well. Closing Toys in the Attic, hands-down one of their best records, this song is overly dramatic in all the right places. I love the violin/guitar lead in at the beginning after the little piano riff, and the oboe that trails in at the end of that is nothing short of hilarious if you're not quite in the mood for the song. I used to get so anxious listening to that track because that indicated the end of the album, which meant that a new CD was up next. At this point (last time we had the attic story) I will share with you my music listening system for that same era:
My CDs were arranged alphabetically according to album title, so "Toys" would have been filed under T for "Toys," not A for "Aerosmith".
Let's say we selected this CD (Toys in the Attic) at the very beginning of this system. "Toys in the Attic" has 14 letters in the title, and "toys" itself has four letters. As we selected "Toys" we would then count four albums down the alphabet. Using my iTunes library, the second album selected would be my Wilco collection of non-album tracks (titled Unreleased in my library).
If I did not listen to "Toys" in its completion before the day was out, I would not listen to Unreleased the next day. Instead, I would count 14 albums down my list and select the next day's CD (according to iTunes, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco). The second CD selected, as "yankee" has 6 letters in it, would be Zoot Suit Riot, Cherry Poppin' Daddies - ew! 7th grade!.
If I listened to "Toys" in its completion before the day was out, I would move on to Unreleased. Regardless of the fact that Unreleased only has one word in it, I would not pick another album according to the first letters of this album title, rather, I would just wait until the completion of the album or the end of the day to select the next album (Wreck Your Life, Old 97's), and it's second thanks to the 5 letters in "wreck," You Are Free, Cat Power.
So that's primarily what "You See Me Crying" reminds me of.
I think just 2 songs is enough tonight.