Today i'm listening to "Need You Now" by Lady Antebellum
I'd rather hurt than feel nothing at all..
I hate when it gets okay to be sad, okay to feel down. When it becomes comforting to be sad. Story of my life.
Thursday 26 April 2012
Monday 23 April 2012
Wednesday 18 April 2012
New band guys!
Looking for a new band to explore into? Check out The Lumineers.
I recently discovered their stuff, and i haven't come across a band song yet, their self titled album was released just a couple of weeks ago, worth looking up.
I recently discovered their stuff, and i haven't come across a band song yet, their self titled album was released just a couple of weeks ago, worth looking up.
Here's my personal favourite "Dead Sea". My er "Smile Song"!
Monday 16 April 2012
lack of activity? sorry guys..
Yes, i've been away! It happens time to time..
Anyway, today i'm listening to "Home" by Foo Fighters
Not only has my time away given me a chance to reflect (yes, something i do fairly often..) but it's given me a chance to miss home. You know the saying "absence makes the heart grow fonder"? Well, it's true. I find missing home gives me a chance to really appreciate what i have. I even missed every ridiculously cheesy quote on my wall.. Which, looking at them right now, it reminds me of who i was when i put them up there in the first place, and what a dark place i was in, and how today, i'm completely different. But as many will tell you, when you've been in that place for a long time, you carry it around pretty much for the rest of your life whether it be as a distant memory in the back of your mind, or a very clear one.
So it's pretty much the title in itself with this song for me. There's nothing better.
Anyway, today i'm listening to "Home" by Foo Fighters
Not only has my time away given me a chance to reflect (yes, something i do fairly often..) but it's given me a chance to miss home. You know the saying "absence makes the heart grow fonder"? Well, it's true. I find missing home gives me a chance to really appreciate what i have. I even missed every ridiculously cheesy quote on my wall.. Which, looking at them right now, it reminds me of who i was when i put them up there in the first place, and what a dark place i was in, and how today, i'm completely different. But as many will tell you, when you've been in that place for a long time, you carry it around pretty much for the rest of your life whether it be as a distant memory in the back of your mind, or a very clear one.
So it's pretty much the title in itself with this song for me. There's nothing better.
Thursday 5 April 2012
5/4/12, got soul?
Today i'm listening to "Piece of my Heart" by Janis Joplin
Florence Welch has actually spoke of Janis Joplin, citing her as an influence on her own music, and quoting from the interview:
"I think she really sums up the idea that soul is about putting your pain into something beautiful."
It did get me wondering, you know, what really is soul? Obviously i'm not meaning the genre.. although to describe the genre, take the quote from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame soul is, "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm and blues into a form of funky, secular testifying." Not quite the sort of soul we're meaning here.
When people say, "put your heart and soul into it" they mean, quite obviously, to put everything you have into it. Maybe soul is more about having this passion for what you do. This leads you back to Janis Joplin, who ripped through every lyric in her songs with such great passion and soul in her voice. She put everything she had into it.. no?
Well i think it's safe to say that Florence had it pretty bang on, because that's what great music is.. the pain felt by the artist translated into song..but i still think to have soul is to have passion. And what's life without that?
Florence Welch has actually spoke of Janis Joplin, citing her as an influence on her own music, and quoting from the interview:
"I think she really sums up the idea that soul is about putting your pain into something beautiful."
It did get me wondering, you know, what really is soul? Obviously i'm not meaning the genre.. although to describe the genre, take the quote from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame soul is, "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm and blues into a form of funky, secular testifying." Not quite the sort of soul we're meaning here.
When people say, "put your heart and soul into it" they mean, quite obviously, to put everything you have into it. Maybe soul is more about having this passion for what you do. This leads you back to Janis Joplin, who ripped through every lyric in her songs with such great passion and soul in her voice. She put everything she had into it.. no?
Well i think it's safe to say that Florence had it pretty bang on, because that's what great music is.. the pain felt by the artist translated into song..but i still think to have soul is to have passion. And what's life without that?
Monday 2 April 2012
Sunday 1 April 2012
1/4/12
Today i'm listening to "Shake It Out" by Florence + The Machine
There's something about this song that just makes you want to open your arms out wide and sing along at the top of your voice..
i love that.
There's something about this song that just makes you want to open your arms out wide and sing along at the top of your voice..
i love that.
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