Due to the new band I play in I’m balkanizing in my musical taste.
This is a song by German DJ Shantel, a descendant of the German population of Bucovina, in the north of Romania.
Ha, those were the days back in the 80s. Bad drum samples and processed guitars. Well, I guess it’s the same now, only the producers got better computers.
Still… this rocks! Compared to the other crap the eighties left us.
Not really my style, but a pretty good rock song still by punk dinosaurs The Offspring.
the more you suffer
the more it shows you really care
right?
Some good ole country rock is in order right now, to get away from that hectic electro stuff.
I’m feeling like I’m stuck in a swamp right now, so that’s when Lynyrd Skynyrd’s song popped up in my head. Pretty tasty music.
Another one by The Prodigy. I like the guitars and flutes in this one. Again, pretty mindless numb music. Empties the head.
I had a job once at an archive where I had to do the most boring stuff: filling databases by hand (we’re talking 1995, DOS, Borland Reflex now). I could barely stand that part of the job. I remember very little of that time, but I do remember I listened a lot to The Prodigy’s Music for the Jilted Generation.
This weekend I listened a lot to it, and this is the first of the songs that stood out.
It’s pretty mindless numbing music to me, but it fitted in that time, and in my current state of mind as well.
And it’s time for a Weird Al post again. This has to be one of his finest spoof covers, from Aerosmiths’s Livin' on the Edge. I love these lyrics so much more…
Youtube - Weird Al TV spoof videoclip, modelled after Aerosmith’s original.
Communication Breakdown is one of my most favorite Led Zeppelin songs.
Today I listened to an old sampler of Johann Sebastian Bach’s music, and totally unprepared I got to hear motet BWV 118 O Jesu Christ, mein Lebens Licht.
And, like always when I hear Bach unprepared, I knew he put a trick in that I know will make me cry from pure emotion, and sure enough: there was the Trugschluss, and there I went.
Bach makes the most moving music I know.
Stevie Wonder did make some genius stuff in the sixties and seventies; I don’t get what he does today.
Youtube - live @ Sesame Street! Terrific performance, you got to see this one…