Sunday, December 28, 2008

Unexpected



Wow. I have fallen into this album recently. The epic score with the cool sixties sound makes this feel retro and sophisticated. One of the best albums of the year. Also, it rocks. Enjoy...



Artist: The Last Shadow Puppets
Song: The Age Of Understatement

Decided
To sneak off away
From your stomach
And try your pulse
And captured
What seemed all
Unknowing and candid
But they suspected
It was false

She's playful
The boring would
Warn you be careful
Of her brigade
In order to tame
This relentless marauder
Move away from the parade

And she was walking on the tables
In the glass house
Endearingly bedraggled in the wind
Subtle in her method of seduction
The twenty little tragedies begin

And she would throw
A feather boa in the road
If she thought
That it would set the scene
Unfittingly dipped
Into your companions
Enlighten them to make you seethe

And there's affection to rent
The age of the understatement
Before the attraction ferments
Kiss me properly and pull me apart

Affection to rent
The age of the understatement
Before this attraction ferments
Kiss me properly and pull me apart

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

And my fingers scratch at my hair
Before my mind can get too reckless
The idea of seeing you here
Is enough to make the sweat grow cold

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Banjo Poetry



I have been rolling around in the folk genre the last few weeks. Personally, I like when an artist can make me think with lyrics and feel with the music. This song builds to a point where the music seems to have a hundred different layers. Simple and layered is the sweet spot if you ask me. Hope you enjoy.






Artist: Peter Bradley Adams
Song: I'll Forget You

Well those days have all but gone
And still I'm listening in
To that old long-distance call
But I'll forget you

Well the fields are turning gold
As the winter moves in
There's a love I used to know
But I'll forget you

So bye-bye
So bye-bye
I'll forget you

There's a ghost above my door
Still, can you hear
There's a high lonesome call
But I'll forget you

So bye-bye
So bye-bye
I'll forget you

As the space around me grows
I need the touch of your skin
So I wear this ring of gold
Til I forget you

So bye-bye
Bye-bye
So bye-bye
I'll forget you

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Guilty Pleasure

Martin Sexton

Martin Sexton

[via FoxyTunes / Martin Sexton]



I am a sucker for a great hook. I am always singing this song in the shower...settle down ladies. This dude writes a great song lyrically but with that he has a great sense of Americana in his voice. I hope you likey.




Artist: Martin Sexton
Song: Wild Angels

Even when the desert sands roll with thunder
Even when I know it's all for gasoline
Even when the hole in my head lets me wonder it
I know I sing because I must
Even when the truth waters down way too quickly
Even when the storm blows down in New Orleans
I will still be dreamin' when I know why this happens
But I know I love you and I trust
We are born with this music in our hearts
We tend forget a little each day right from the start
In a dream I rolled on back the clock and found another way
To remember the words

That we are wild angels
Believing in our childhood dreams
We're just trying to find our way back to
The source of the stream
We are wild and free
Even like the hills these songs they last forever
Even though the singer will be forgotten in good time
Even that a song can unify or move mountains
This I cry we sing because we must

We all love the sound of music in our head
And feel the joy and pain cuz we ain't dead
We have the power and the duty and the means to change the world
And to remember the words

Cuz we are wild angels
Sent down from our childhood dreams to change the world
And to remember the words
Cuz we are wild angels
Send down from our childhood dreams
And we're just trying to get ourselves back to the source of the stream
We are wild and we are free
It's where we want to be

Come and join us on the journey down the winding road
Doesn't matter what you fear cuz we are bold
We got the light inside us of the universe
Gonna let it flow like a raging river

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Medication

WEEN!

WEEN!

[via FoxyTunes / Ween]



Sometimes when life gets a little hectic, this song runs through my head. I have been a fan of Ween since the dawn of time. These guys are a big part of my eclectic taste in music, I am always amazed that they can sound like six different great bands all in one record. I hope this drives you to check them out...




Artist: Ween
Song: Zoloft

Gimme that z, o-l-o-f-t
Gimme a grip, make me love me
Suckin' 'em down, I'm happy man
Can feel it inside, makin' me smile

...realize that the sky's not made of gold
don't disguise the nature of your soul

Gimme that z, o-l-o-f-t
No longer pissed and you don't bother me
I'm makin' it through, I'm givin' my all
When base are loaded, I'm whacking the ball

...don't suck the mind, don't drain the source
the path of life's not so easy to course, buddy