Stuff This White Person Likes
A short survey of what I've been into lately.
The Who "Heaven and Hell"
After putting some binders of CD-R's in a slightly different position on the shelf, I've been revisiting their contents lately. It's funny how you can listen to a CD you've heard before and have a track jump out at you that you never gave much attention before. "Heaven and Hell", the lead track on my CD of Live at Leeds is one such track. Not sure how I never noticed its righteous awesometude. It starts out in such full-on fashion and just keeps the power at full steam, and with such great lyrics besides. This is their version from the Isle of Wight festival.
Donovan "Get Thy Bearings"
I have a CD-R of Donovan's Hurdy Gurdy Man followed by Butterfield Blues Band's East-West that I listened to repeatedly the other day. Became obsessed with the sixth track, "Hi It's Been a Long Time", but it doesn't appear to exist on the YouTubeNet. The track immediately preceding it was the next most intriguing song on the album for me, "Get Thy Bearings". That doesn't seem to exist on YouTube either, at least as played by Donovan, so you'll have to settle for a rendition by some random dude with a guitar.
Butterfield Blues Band "Mary, Mary"
On the latter half of the aforementioned CD-R, my obsession was with the Butterfield Blues Band's version of Michael Nesmith's (of the Monkees) song "Mary, Mary". Low-voiced guitar hook followed by harmonica honk reeled me in. Again however it appears my choice is a little too obscure for the membership of the YouTube Nation. So the Monkees version will have to substitute. I do like the added sound effects.
Bruce Springsteen "Two Hearts"
Also pulled out The River, one of my favorite records of all time. It has so many great songs, but the one that jumped out this time was "Two Hearts". I love how the vocal line is at times ever so slightly ahead of the beat, adding to the song's propulsive feel. I'm starting to get pretty suspicious of YouTube at this point, though. You would think there would be a nonlethargic version with decent audio, but this is the closest I found.
Thompson Twins "Hold Me Now"
We didn't have cable, so I missed out on being part of the MTV generation. Sometimes it's nice to see what I was missing. There's something about some 80's pop music that seems really pure to me, perhaps in a kind of retro futurist sort of way, even while simultaneously being fairly ridiculous. It reminds me in a way of the various ideologies that people get entangled with that, despite being despicable, still have the undeniable charm of internal logic. At any rate, I think this is a great song.
Sloan "I've Gotta Try"
I loved Sloan's first album Smeared, which betrayed a big MBV influence. Didn't really like their second album though, and sort of forgot about them for a while. Kept meaning to listen to their later albums after hearing that they were quality power pop, but never quite got around to it. Don't remember how I came across this video, which admittedly is totally ridiculous, with its gratuitous computer generated wankery, but the song grew on me in a hurry. Gotta love that guitar chording, which actually kinda reminds me of a band called The Who.
The Who "Heaven and Hell"
After putting some binders of CD-R's in a slightly different position on the shelf, I've been revisiting their contents lately. It's funny how you can listen to a CD you've heard before and have a track jump out at you that you never gave much attention before. "Heaven and Hell", the lead track on my CD of Live at Leeds is one such track. Not sure how I never noticed its righteous awesometude. It starts out in such full-on fashion and just keeps the power at full steam, and with such great lyrics besides. This is their version from the Isle of Wight festival.
Donovan "Get Thy Bearings"
I have a CD-R of Donovan's Hurdy Gurdy Man followed by Butterfield Blues Band's East-West that I listened to repeatedly the other day. Became obsessed with the sixth track, "Hi It's Been a Long Time", but it doesn't appear to exist on the YouTubeNet. The track immediately preceding it was the next most intriguing song on the album for me, "Get Thy Bearings". That doesn't seem to exist on YouTube either, at least as played by Donovan, so you'll have to settle for a rendition by some random dude with a guitar.
Butterfield Blues Band "Mary, Mary"
On the latter half of the aforementioned CD-R, my obsession was with the Butterfield Blues Band's version of Michael Nesmith's (of the Monkees) song "Mary, Mary". Low-voiced guitar hook followed by harmonica honk reeled me in. Again however it appears my choice is a little too obscure for the membership of the YouTube Nation. So the Monkees version will have to substitute. I do like the added sound effects.
Bruce Springsteen "Two Hearts"
Also pulled out The River, one of my favorite records of all time. It has so many great songs, but the one that jumped out this time was "Two Hearts". I love how the vocal line is at times ever so slightly ahead of the beat, adding to the song's propulsive feel. I'm starting to get pretty suspicious of YouTube at this point, though. You would think there would be a nonlethargic version with decent audio, but this is the closest I found.
Thompson Twins "Hold Me Now"
We didn't have cable, so I missed out on being part of the MTV generation. Sometimes it's nice to see what I was missing. There's something about some 80's pop music that seems really pure to me, perhaps in a kind of retro futurist sort of way, even while simultaneously being fairly ridiculous. It reminds me in a way of the various ideologies that people get entangled with that, despite being despicable, still have the undeniable charm of internal logic. At any rate, I think this is a great song.
Sloan "I've Gotta Try"
I loved Sloan's first album Smeared, which betrayed a big MBV influence. Didn't really like their second album though, and sort of forgot about them for a while. Kept meaning to listen to their later albums after hearing that they were quality power pop, but never quite got around to it. Don't remember how I came across this video, which admittedly is totally ridiculous, with its gratuitous computer generated wankery, but the song grew on me in a hurry. Gotta love that guitar chording, which actually kinda reminds me of a band called The Who.
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