Thursday, August 30, 2012
Banana Pancakes
Have any of you out there ever had that song that you can’t stop listening to over and over again and gets stuck in your head for days at a time? Well I’m currently in the process of one such phase. In fact, it’s not even just one song that I can’t seem to get away from. What has captured my current attention actually consists of two musical artists that I tend to think go hand in hand with each other. Their names are John Mayer and Jack Johnson, both being great guitarists and phenomenal singing.
I first heard John Mayer on the radio when I was still in early elementary school with songs such as “Daughters” and “Waitin’ on the World to Change” which addressed being a good father, or parent in general, and different problems in the world respectively. His songs had a very blues-like feel with slower jazzy guitar parts and somewhat scarce on lyrics. However the song that I’ve been listening to the most by him is much more happy and upbeat with a much different feel to it than some of his other work. The song entitled “Your Body is a Wonderland” is precisely the song by Mayer that I’m referring to, talking about how he loves spending time with this girls in certain ways (I’ll let you look it up and find out what that means on your own).
While the song I mentioned before has been stuck in my head for days on end, there’s one other song that has taken a much firmer hold over my mind for the past week or so. Jack Johnson’s “Banana Pancakes” is currently my favorite song and perhaps one of my all time favorites. This song has a really good guitar part with a pretty simple strumming pattern with only his voice as an accompaniment. But the best thing about this song is that it is the most chill song EVER! The entire song is about staying home, sleeping in, relaxing at home and spending the entire day with the one that you really care about. One of my favorite parts of the lyrics are the bridge: “The telephone is singing, ringing, it’s too early, don’t pick it up, we got everything we need right here and everything we need is enough, just so easy when the whole world fits inside of your arms do we really need to pay attention to the alarm, wake up slow.”
I really like these lyrics because it says that all they need are each other and since that’s all they really need why worry? If you’re a guitar player like me I highly recommend you to learn this song, especially if you have a special someone to sing it to. It’s pretty easy and really romantic if in the right setting.
Word Count: 422
I first heard John Mayer on the radio when I was still in early elementary school with songs such as “Daughters” and “Waitin’ on the World to Change” which addressed being a good father, or parent in general, and different problems in the world respectively. His songs had a very blues-like feel with slower jazzy guitar parts and somewhat scarce on lyrics. However the song that I’ve been listening to the most by him is much more happy and upbeat with a much different feel to it than some of his other work. The song entitled “Your Body is a Wonderland” is precisely the song by Mayer that I’m referring to, talking about how he loves spending time with this girls in certain ways (I’ll let you look it up and find out what that means on your own).
While the song I mentioned before has been stuck in my head for days on end, there’s one other song that has taken a much firmer hold over my mind for the past week or so. Jack Johnson’s “Banana Pancakes” is currently my favorite song and perhaps one of my all time favorites. This song has a really good guitar part with a pretty simple strumming pattern with only his voice as an accompaniment. But the best thing about this song is that it is the most chill song EVER! The entire song is about staying home, sleeping in, relaxing at home and spending the entire day with the one that you really care about. One of my favorite parts of the lyrics are the bridge: “The telephone is singing, ringing, it’s too early, don’t pick it up, we got everything we need right here and everything we need is enough, just so easy when the whole world fits inside of your arms do we really need to pay attention to the alarm, wake up slow.”
I really like these lyrics because it says that all they need are each other and since that’s all they really need why worry? If you’re a guitar player like me I highly recommend you to learn this song, especially if you have a special someone to sing it to. It’s pretty easy and really romantic if in the right setting.
Word Count: 422
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Savior
For those who know me, they know I love music. For those that don't...well, now you know. My musical preferences are actually quite eclectic if anything. I listen to things that vary from the 1500s to now, entailing everything from Beethoven to Billy Joel, The Beatles to the Stones, and Sinatra to Michael Buble. But my two most preferred types of music are rock and jazz, specifically hard or punk rock and jazz singers.
Now I know when most of you think punk you think screaming and out of tune singing coupled with angry lyrics. While some of the punk bands I listen to do include these, such as The Dead Kennedys, but those aren’t the kinds of punk bands that I listen to a lot. Much of the punk I listen to, I guess, is technically considered pop punk, but punk none the less. At this point non-music people may be wondering, “What is this infernal machination of these two completely different genres of music?” Well, it essentially incorporates the elements of a punk song, but with less of an edge to it that you’d find in original punk bands. It also adds a mainstream sound to it so that it’s more acceptable to radio listeners. Or, at least that’s the way I would define it. However, there’s one band that I constantly listen to that mostly plays what is called melodic punk. This band, which is perhaps my favorite band in all of musicdom, goes by the name of Rise Against.
Lead singer Tim McIlrath and bassist Joe Principe formed the band in Chicago in 1999, along with drummer Toni Tintari and guitarist “Mr. Precision” under the original name of Transistor Revolt. Their early work consisted much more of hardcore punk, which as the name implies is much harder than their current melodic style of punk, although personally I prefer their work closer to what they are currently doing. But getting back to the subject of favorites, I’d like to share with you the first song I ever heard by this amazing band and some of the lyrics.
“It kills me not to know this but I’ve all but just forgotten what the color of her eyes were, her scars and how she got them, as the telling signs of age rain down a single tear is dropping through the valleys of an aging face that this world has forgotten.” -"Savior"
For me this song is essentially about a guy who had a relationship with a girl and is trying to recall said woman, but hates that he can’t remember certain things about her and that she’s started to fade into the back of his mind. It continues in saying that he keeps making promises he can’t keep and how what they had wasn’t love, but maybe she was just using him as an escape from something else while she claims to want to save him while there’s something left. It later goes on about how even though the weight of this event may hurt, you must carry on for time stops for no man and that he still has so many questions after all these years. It’s a great love song that sparked my love of the band and I very much hope it interests you.
WC: 505
Now I know when most of you think punk you think screaming and out of tune singing coupled with angry lyrics. While some of the punk bands I listen to do include these, such as The Dead Kennedys, but those aren’t the kinds of punk bands that I listen to a lot. Much of the punk I listen to, I guess, is technically considered pop punk, but punk none the less. At this point non-music people may be wondering, “What is this infernal machination of these two completely different genres of music?” Well, it essentially incorporates the elements of a punk song, but with less of an edge to it that you’d find in original punk bands. It also adds a mainstream sound to it so that it’s more acceptable to radio listeners. Or, at least that’s the way I would define it. However, there’s one band that I constantly listen to that mostly plays what is called melodic punk. This band, which is perhaps my favorite band in all of musicdom, goes by the name of Rise Against.
Lead singer Tim McIlrath and bassist Joe Principe formed the band in Chicago in 1999, along with drummer Toni Tintari and guitarist “Mr. Precision” under the original name of Transistor Revolt. Their early work consisted much more of hardcore punk, which as the name implies is much harder than their current melodic style of punk, although personally I prefer their work closer to what they are currently doing. But getting back to the subject of favorites, I’d like to share with you the first song I ever heard by this amazing band and some of the lyrics.
“It kills me not to know this but I’ve all but just forgotten what the color of her eyes were, her scars and how she got them, as the telling signs of age rain down a single tear is dropping through the valleys of an aging face that this world has forgotten.” -"Savior"
For me this song is essentially about a guy who had a relationship with a girl and is trying to recall said woman, but hates that he can’t remember certain things about her and that she’s started to fade into the back of his mind. It continues in saying that he keeps making promises he can’t keep and how what they had wasn’t love, but maybe she was just using him as an escape from something else while she claims to want to save him while there’s something left. It later goes on about how even though the weight of this event may hurt, you must carry on for time stops for no man and that he still has so many questions after all these years. It’s a great love song that sparked my love of the band and I very much hope it interests you.
WC: 505
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