The greytoned set and great organ chords which keep popping up are all part of Puwanarajah’s perception of the layers of melancholy within Shakespeare’s Christmas-season comedy. Olivia is mourning a brother, Viola thinks hers is lost, Orsino’s love is hopeless, so is Viola”s until the...
It was just guys who bought Jazz Masters and learned to bend and hit chords at the same time and loved playing together. But getting back to the first solo record, there seemed to a more rootsy, piano-led vibe. That record really turned out exactly the way that I had wanted. I would...
while being still being completely honest with the self & former beloved. The circular maneuvers and reasoning move past the point of no return heard in the chorus commitment to cutting the chord heard in Michelle’s delivery of, “Don’t ...
) . . . Sony Music Entertainment UK (formerly CBS) has completely stopped manufacturing vinyl records in this country, all its vinyl coming from its Dutch pressing plant. Already in the US it’s almost impossible to find anything new other than dance ...
“Paul with a little help from me,” he quipped. “I did some of the lyrics and all those little licks going on in the background from the second voice.” Nonetheless, John’s creative wit comes through during the question / answer segments of the song, a tactic he reprised in “...
(like it goes for many of us) the song progresses from well-thought out guitar chords to a sort of jangly angry cacophony with yelled lyrics like “I said oh God damn it, you’re so mean” by the end. The mood of the song is soperfectto soundtrack their argument, and the way he...
Bowie goes very simple, crooning over distant guitar strains and simple piano chords on the faded film noir of 'The Loneliest Guy.' He kicks a hole through the Modern Lovers' clever 'Pablo Picasso.' As with 'Heathen,' Bowie sounds comfortable -- while sounding anxiety-riddled. How's that...
Then I kicked my oxygen up again to get into the van, made it there and plugged in! It all worked out OK from there. Had to hang out in the car, went a few places and kept checking the hotel for power and eventually it came back and it was a happy ending 😊. ...
Paste Magazine described it so well when they wrote,“It’s a musical and lyrical masterwork that builds and blooms in all the right places—and in places you’d never expect.” I saw Volcano Choir perform these songs live at First Ave in Minneapolis in October, and that building and bloo...
and I’ve been wanting to put it on a summer mix for years. From Rouse’s 2005 masterpiece albumNashville, this song also has one of my favorite opening lyrics:“I would swim across the ocean, I would lay down on a bed of nails / but I’ll spare you all the bullshit, I will ...