Of course I hope never to strand onto a deserted island, especially not with just five songs. I found it so hard to make a choice, that I will list more songs or albums that I love below:
Songs In The Key of Life (album) - Stevie Wonder
Soundtrack of West Side Story - Leonard Bernstein
9 Crimes - Damien Rice
Continuum (album) - John Mayer
Funkoverload (album) - Maceo Parker
The Hermit Sessions (album) - Kyteman
Make You Feel My Love - Adele
Johnny B. Good - Chuck Berry
Ella Fitzgerald
Michael Jackson
James Brown
Lose Yourself - Eminem
John Legend
Ne Me Quitte Pas - Jacques Brel
Several Songs by Patrick Bruel
Les Misèrables (album) - Les Miserablès Original Broadway Cast
RENT (album) - RENT Movie Cast
Pick Up The Pieces - Candy Dulfer
OutKast
DJ Maestro
Futuresex/Lovesound (album) - Justin Timberlake
Keane
Coldplay
A lot of Acda & De Munnik
A lot of Prince
Miles Davis
A lot of Alicia Keys
Vivo Per Lei - Andrea Bocelli
Swing When You're Winning (album) - Robbie Williams
Amélie Soundtrack - Yann Tiersen
A lot of Diana Krall
Some things by David Sanborn
Wouter Hamel
Ray Charles
Call Me Irresponsible (album) - Michael Bublé
Snow Patrol
Empire State of Mind - Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys
Just Dance - Lady Gaga
I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas
I've Got Love - The King Blues
And many, many more.
zondag 8 november 2009
Other Music Blogs: My Revelations
Dear All.
Looking at the other blogs I found some things which I really like now:
On Andrew's blog, The Best Thing Next To Silence Is Music, I learned of the band Lettuce. I looked it up, and it turned out to be one of the funkiest bands with a huge amount of groove. Lettuce is tribute band started at Berkley School of Music, which is probably how Andrew knows it, that plays covers of old funk and soul songs. I just adore them from now on.
On Joran's blog, Music Begins Where Words Run Out, I read about a song that I already knew, but never paid that much attention to: Fire and Rain by James Taylor. I have always preffered Traveling Star and Shower the People by that singer, but Fire and Rain can now share itself among those. It is a beautiful song, and I cannot understand how I can have missed it. I think it is great how Joran explains the song, and I totally agree on his opinion on the choice of instruments.
Last I read on Coen's blog, Music the God ff Silence, about the song Breakeven by the Script. I had heard this song a few times, and I knew the band already. Still, Coen made me listen to it in a different way. He and I (and Andrew and Joran) listen to music in a similar way, focussing more on the different aspects of a song, but this time his way was different. Through his explanation I rediscovered the song.
There were of course some songs that I did not like at all. Some of the Hip Hop songs for example, especially the Dutch ones. It is not that I do not like Hip Hop, but Dutch Hip Hop just does not work for me.
Looking at all the blogs, overall I think that our group has quite a good taste of music!
Looking at the other blogs I found some things which I really like now:
On Andrew's blog, The Best Thing Next To Silence Is Music, I learned of the band Lettuce. I looked it up, and it turned out to be one of the funkiest bands with a huge amount of groove. Lettuce is tribute band started at Berkley School of Music, which is probably how Andrew knows it, that plays covers of old funk and soul songs. I just adore them from now on.
On Joran's blog, Music Begins Where Words Run Out, I read about a song that I already knew, but never paid that much attention to: Fire and Rain by James Taylor. I have always preffered Traveling Star and Shower the People by that singer, but Fire and Rain can now share itself among those. It is a beautiful song, and I cannot understand how I can have missed it. I think it is great how Joran explains the song, and I totally agree on his opinion on the choice of instruments.
Last I read on Coen's blog, Music the God ff Silence, about the song Breakeven by the Script. I had heard this song a few times, and I knew the band already. Still, Coen made me listen to it in a different way. He and I (and Andrew and Joran) listen to music in a similar way, focussing more on the different aspects of a song, but this time his way was different. Through his explanation I rediscovered the song.
There were of course some songs that I did not like at all. Some of the Hip Hop songs for example, especially the Dutch ones. It is not that I do not like Hip Hop, but Dutch Hip Hop just does not work for me.
Looking at all the blogs, overall I think that our group has quite a good taste of music!
Desert Island Song (5): Shake Everything You've Got (Live), Maceo Parker
Dear all.
This song is a song that I do not have myself, but found on Youtube. I had listened to a CD I had by Maceo Parker, but this song is not on it. I looked for live performances of Maceo Parker, and found this, and I loved it.
Maceo Parker is a black saxophone player, who makes incredibly funky and groovy music. His lyrics are usually simple and kind of absurd. The title of this song, actually states what the entire song is about and almost all that is said in the song. He wants the listener to shake everything he or she has got.
The song starts with an amazing base line, which I adore. Then all the instruments fall in, and the groove goes on and on. the bridge is awsome as well, in which you only have three vocalists and the drummer. Just listen to it, and dance away!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABLwmYI09Lw
This song is a song that I do not have myself, but found on Youtube. I had listened to a CD I had by Maceo Parker, but this song is not on it. I looked for live performances of Maceo Parker, and found this, and I loved it.
Maceo Parker is a black saxophone player, who makes incredibly funky and groovy music. His lyrics are usually simple and kind of absurd. The title of this song, actually states what the entire song is about and almost all that is said in the song. He wants the listener to shake everything he or she has got.
The song starts with an amazing base line, which I adore. Then all the instruments fall in, and the groove goes on and on. the bridge is awsome as well, in which you only have three vocalists and the drummer. Just listen to it, and dance away!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABLwmYI09Lw
Desert Island Song (4): Stop This Train, John Mayer
My third post today, but not my last!
This song, from Mayer's album Continuum (2006), is a song I like because of the great feeling of the song, and that it is a little bit about me.
The entire song just has a great relaxed feeling over it. When you start it, you almost cannot do anything but to lay back and listen with your eyes closed, thinking the past day over. It is just a really enjoyable song, which, to me, just is a great break between all the busy things in life.
The reason why the song is about me, is because it is about not wanting to grow up and that growing up goes to fast. In the song, John Mayer sings about how he is "scared of getting older", and that he is "only good at being young". I feel the same way. The last few years have gone so fast, and sometimes I just rather be small again and not bear responsibilities etc. Just go back to the times when everything was carefree, when you did not know so much of the world, to the time when my parents were together....
This song, from Mayer's album Continuum (2006), is a song I like because of the great feeling of the song, and that it is a little bit about me.
The entire song just has a great relaxed feeling over it. When you start it, you almost cannot do anything but to lay back and listen with your eyes closed, thinking the past day over. It is just a really enjoyable song, which, to me, just is a great break between all the busy things in life.
The reason why the song is about me, is because it is about not wanting to grow up and that growing up goes to fast. In the song, John Mayer sings about how he is "scared of getting older", and that he is "only good at being young". I feel the same way. The last few years have gone so fast, and sometimes I just rather be small again and not bear responsibilities etc. Just go back to the times when everything was carefree, when you did not know so much of the world, to the time when my parents were together....
Coldplay Concert: Viva La Vida Tour - 09-09-09
Dear All!
Here I am again. I now want to discuss the most awesome concert I have ever been to: The concert by one of THE most amazing bands in the world: Coldplay! They had a concert in The Netherlands on 09-09-09, and I know that that is a long time ago and that I should have posted about it long ago, but better late than never, so here is my story.
Directly after school, my father and I drove to Nijmegen. The concert's terrain (it was outdoors) opened at 15:00, and we entered it at 17:15. It was notably calm still, and most people were just sitting on the ground. We, my father and I, managed to work our way forward up untill the front boundary of our section. This was the closes we could poissibly get to the stage, and I thought it was a beautiful place: right in the middle, and with a great overview of the entire stage.
After one horrible (Bat for Lashes) and one moderate but funny (The Flaming Lips) preprogramm, Coldplay started at exactly 21:00 as they should.
They came on with firework in their hands, and started playing Life In Technicolor. This set the mood for the entire evening: it was one huge party. All their hits came by, and the crowd went wild. Everybody, young or old, sang along with every song. All of Coldplay's hits and recent songs came by, and especially Viva La Vida was a blast, with the entire crowd of 60.000 people chanting the chorus part for five minutes after the song was over. There also was a lot of humor, and a small awesome tribute to Michael Jackson: They performed an acoustic version of Billie Jean
Overall the entire concert was great. I loved every minute of it, and when it was over I wanted it again. I just LOVE Coldplay.
P.S. Below are some pictures and a video I made at the concert.
Desert island Song (3): La Dispute, Yann Tiersen
A new post today (with more to come)!
Another song I would take with me to a desert island is the song La Dispute, written by French composer Yann Tiersen. I adore this song, written for the movie 'Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain', because it carries so much emotion.
The song starts with a solo of an accordion. I do not know who plays the instrument, but he or she is an absolute master musician. This man (or woman) puts so much emotion in one single note, that it is hardly impossible not to get goose bumps or a shiver down your spine. The impressive thing is that the accordion part is so incredibly simple. It contains almost only long notes, and no more than two notes at the same time. Still it manages to grab your attention and take you in.
After the accordion part, the piano takes over. This piece is as, if not more, beautiful as the accordion part, carrying maybe even more emotion. Although this is not as simple as the accordion part (I can tell because I am trying to play it), it is as great. The song ends with the sound of the spinning of a bicycle wheel. Although this sounds odd, it just works out.
The entire song has a, as I call it, 'Yann Tiersen' feel over it. There is something characteristic to his music which you can very well hear in the soundtrack of Amélie. If you do not know more of his music, please look it up on Youtube, because it is great.
Another song I would take with me to a desert island is the song La Dispute, written by French composer Yann Tiersen. I adore this song, written for the movie 'Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain', because it carries so much emotion.
The song starts with a solo of an accordion. I do not know who plays the instrument, but he or she is an absolute master musician. This man (or woman) puts so much emotion in one single note, that it is hardly impossible not to get goose bumps or a shiver down your spine. The impressive thing is that the accordion part is so incredibly simple. It contains almost only long notes, and no more than two notes at the same time. Still it manages to grab your attention and take you in.
After the accordion part, the piano takes over. This piece is as, if not more, beautiful as the accordion part, carrying maybe even more emotion. Although this is not as simple as the accordion part (I can tell because I am trying to play it), it is as great. The song ends with the sound of the spinning of a bicycle wheel. Although this sounds odd, it just works out.
The entire song has a, as I call it, 'Yann Tiersen' feel over it. There is something characteristic to his music which you can very well hear in the soundtrack of Amélie. If you do not know more of his music, please look it up on Youtube, because it is great.
vrijdag 6 november 2009
Desert Island Song (2): Hallelujah, Jeff Buckley
Dear all!
Long time no posting, but the coming days I am into a posting mood. Today, another great song that might be a little bit standard as many find it great as well: Hallelujah, by Jeff Buckley (and not the horrible version by Lisa, who is a great singer but not in this song). Usually a cover of a song is not better than the original, but in this case Buckley's version is better than the original by Leonard Cohen.
The melancholic minor guitar intro has so much feeling in it, and it sets the mood for the entire song. At the start of te song you can hear him sigh, which gives me goose bumps. And then he starts singing. The beautiful lyrics, sung by the Jeff Buckley with his fragile voice. The song, to me, is a true declaration of love, and it touches you right in your heart. Please listen to it if you do not know it yet, for it will take you away and never leave your heart again.
Long time no posting, but the coming days I am into a posting mood. Today, another great song that might be a little bit standard as many find it great as well: Hallelujah, by Jeff Buckley (and not the horrible version by Lisa, who is a great singer but not in this song). Usually a cover of a song is not better than the original, but in this case Buckley's version is better than the original by Leonard Cohen.
The melancholic minor guitar intro has so much feeling in it, and it sets the mood for the entire song. At the start of te song you can hear him sigh, which gives me goose bumps. And then he starts singing. The beautiful lyrics, sung by the Jeff Buckley with his fragile voice. The song, to me, is a true declaration of love, and it touches you right in your heart. Please listen to it if you do not know it yet, for it will take you away and never leave your heart again.
Abonneren op:
Posts (Atom)
