Well idk whyy but guess what people! In my high school English class we get to make a blog. Great. Now that means i can talk EVEN more than i do on Facebook. This CAN NOT be a good thing as i'm sure any of my Facebook friends would know. BUT its OK becasue i'm SURE my English teacher has a good reason. x)
More coming soon (hopefully not the boring kind)
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Friday, April 2, 2010
499. More Thin Lizzy
I've just spent some time watching/listening to this song. Wow. It's amazing to me how I could hear a song hundreds of times and never really listen to it. Listening to Classic Rock radio for years allows you to sing along to this song, but have you really heard it?
The first thing I noticed is that the chord pattern is really unusual. Also, the song has a unique rhythm, and the vocal kind of swerves around on top of it, like a car on a slippery highway. The singer shows a high level of comfort with losing his place and finding it again, telling a story about nothing in particular.
The words are really nothing much, which makes me think that this band is kind of a "party" band. I don't know any of their other material, so I wonder if they wrote music with any serious lyrical content. Not that the words aren't perfect for the song. Who cares what it's about when it rocks as hard as it does? The words really fit the "funness" of the song. When I watch and listen, it's clear that they are having a good time.
Watching their performances makes me think that they weren't a typical 1970's rock band. They have an edge, which perhaps shows an early metal or punk vibration. The crowds don't sit and sway in a drug-induced trance, but bounce up and down and slam up against the stage. The band doesn't bite its lips and roll its eyes back into their heads, reaching for ecstasy. They are right there, playing those instruments, singing those words, in your face, whatever.
I am now officially a fan. This is a great song. Way juicier than #500.
The first thing I noticed is that the chord pattern is really unusual. Also, the song has a unique rhythm, and the vocal kind of swerves around on top of it, like a car on a slippery highway. The singer shows a high level of comfort with losing his place and finding it again, telling a story about nothing in particular.
The words are really nothing much, which makes me think that this band is kind of a "party" band. I don't know any of their other material, so I wonder if they wrote music with any serious lyrical content. Not that the words aren't perfect for the song. Who cares what it's about when it rocks as hard as it does? The words really fit the "funness" of the song. When I watch and listen, it's clear that they are having a good time.
Watching their performances makes me think that they weren't a typical 1970's rock band. They have an edge, which perhaps shows an early metal or punk vibration. The crowds don't sit and sway in a drug-induced trance, but bounce up and down and slam up against the stage. The band doesn't bite its lips and roll its eyes back into their heads, reaching for ecstasy. They are right there, playing those instruments, singing those words, in your face, whatever.
I am now officially a fan. This is a great song. Way juicier than #500.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
499. The Boys Are Back in Town. Thin Lizzy
Well, what are you going to say about Thin Lizzy? I always regarded them as another classic rock band that I couldn't distinguish from Molly Hatchet. I don't think I ever really noticed this song, either. Of course, I know it. I can sing it. But who cares? I learned a lot about this band by doing a little research.
What did you find?
What did you find?
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Saturday, March 6, 2010
More Than a Feeling, Sonnet
Though style will ne'er convey a man to peace
I long to try my hand at perfect art
Perhaps a thousand hours of elbow grease
Will simulate the master's quiet heart
And thus alone I sculpt a wondrous beast
To dominate the common man's delight
So if a one moves westerly, or east
He cannot circumvent my line of sight
Adorning every traveler's décor
Will be the lovely Marianne's goodbye
As if he'd ever want for something more
Than this precision tour-de-force reply
The melody's a message that I send
To geniuses who cannot make a friend
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