His songs left me speechless more times than I can count, especially “Stereo” and “Suicaine Gratification.” He is our generation’s finest songwriter. Swamp Dogg!—Mix Bill Withers, Blowfly, Marvin Gaye, and John Prine together and you may approach the sublime alchemy that is Swamp Dogg...
If you can’t say what you need to say in 3 chords and with shitty distorted singing, maybe you need to sit back and reconsider the whole rock music thing, eh? I mean, you can gussie it all up with harmony and some tricky chord substitutions, but a rose is a rose is a rose—...
The subtleties are what make the song distinct though. Clapton isn’t playing mere power chords with the verse riff (they’re closer to dominant 7 chords), and his soloing on the track would come to represent 60s psychedelia to a tee. <img src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ID/hqdefault.jp...
” Big Llou is definitely a gentleman, but make no mistake about his intentions, “I can turn you on…if you let me take you home…treat you like
Tom and Jim add a lot of the background vocals and Eric’s work on this tune is simply sublime. They move on to “One More Day,” a tune by Mike Schermer and Earl Thomas, and Billy pleads for his woman to hear him out. “Now, these planes and trains and these miles I’ve ...
Can't blame them, though, for getting a bit carried away! Uchida/Sanderling in Beethoven IV were also wonderful, but I'm not sure I appreciated sanderling's aggressive approach to the abrupt and rather dry chords in the orchestral introduction to the middle movement. All-in-all a very ...
“Neon Noir,” the title track to his debut solo album (under the moniker VV) is full of whimsy and wave-crashing chords, which provide the foundation for our gothic songbird’s sublime melodies. The Warning, More Lava/Republic The Warning, "More" ...
“Neon Noir,” the title track to his debut solo album (under the moniker VV) is full of whimsy and wave-crashing chords, which provide the foundation for our gothic songbird’s sublime melodies. The Warning, More Lava/Republic The Warning, "More" ...
“Neon Noir,” the title track to his debut solo album (under the moniker VV) is full of whimsy and wave-crashing chords, which provide the foundation for our gothic songbird’s sublime melodies. The Warning, More Lava/Republic The Warning, "More" ...
Though most of Extreme’s music was heavier, the Boston rockers saw their commercial breakout with the acoustic ballad “More Than Words,” which they had to fight with their record company to release. The tender-hearted ballad digs into the idea that the phrase “I love you” has become ...