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phoenixchilde for a music meme!
List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening to.
Man. Okay. My music tastes tend to vary from hour to hour, let only day to day. In the last week or so, though, these are the songs I've had stuck in my head and that I've been playing on the piano every chance I get.
"Walk Through the Fire," "Once More With Feeling"
Recently I added to my profile a quote from one of my classes, when a guest lecturer asked "Who here watches Buffy?" When I immediately raised my hand, one of the other girls snickered and said "You would." (Tangentially, that still bugs me in curious sort of way. I mean -- what does that mean? That I'm so obviously a geek? Am I obviously a Buffy fan because I'm a girl who does martial arts? What the heck? What stereotype have I been placed in? Whatever -- it means that when my advisor tells the class that "Like the Giles to your Buffy, I'm here to help," I get it. So there.)
Anyway. I like Joss Whedon and Buffy (for a variety of reasons that I should write about sometime). I like theatre. I love "Once More With Feeling." This song has been stuck in my head since Sunday, when another Buffy fan and I were working on a different song for an open mic night and ended up looking up the chords for OMWF and singing through, well, most of the show. And I like this song. I like the power chords, I like the interweaving of themes about two-thirds in, I like the sheer overdramatic power of the voices, the lyrics, the choreography. If we do indeed get up the resources to stage OMWF here at CMU, this other Buffy fan and I, I want to sing Buffy -- for many reasons, but pretty high on this list is this song.
"American Tune," Paul Simon
This song breaks my heart even when it lifts me up. I can't exactly say why. Maybe it's the spiritual theme; the melody is based on Bach's "St. Matthew Passion." Maybe it's Paul Simon's voice, although Art Garfunkel's light voice and the harmonies those two create makes it hit me even harder.
It's a source of intense frustration to me that in its original key, it's too high for me to sing without jumping around octaves. I'm gonna have to transpose it somehow so I can play it and sing along.
"Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes," Paul Simon
Oh, man. Back in the days of Walkmans and cassette tapes, Graceland was undoubtedly what I listened to most (with some heavy competition from The Lion King on Broadway; now that I think about it, this is probably not coincidence). I can remember listening to this album on road trips, in my best friend's room, while running on the track at the gym (which means I must have still been listening to this obsessively when I was fourteen, since that's how old you had to be to use the track at our fitness club back home). Ladysmith Black Mombazo came to Anchorage right after I started college, so I missed them, and I was so mad. This album, and this song in particular, are ingrained in me.
Why is it shaping my spring? Good question. I'm not sure how I got on this Paul Simon kick -- I know it has something to do with this post, where I kind of on a whim gave Epimetheus a guitar and some Graceland to play, but I'm not sure what prompted that. All I know is (We come and we go) that this is what I've been singing the last couple weeks.
"Blackbird," Paul McCartney (Across the Universe cover)
One of the best Beatles' covers I've ever heard. I first heard this song at a Paul McCartney concert in 2002, and he told a story about how he wrote it in reaction to the civil rights movement in America, how he'd read a story about some young black woman standing up for her rights and he'd written this. It's a song about freedom, about lifting yourself up -- which is nice when you're counting down the days to the end of school.
Plus I love it in context because I'm totally in love with Joe Anderson. >.>
"Look at you," the Screaming Trees
(Ignore the SPN vid. I associate the song with SPN, specifically "Heart," where it was used, but I don't think it works emotionally with the scenes the vidder picked.)
I don't know quite why, but whenever it's sunny and clear out, I want this song on. Maybe it makes me look at things closer.
"Let the River Run," Carly Simon
I tried to find a choral version like the one I have on my iPod and couldn't, but HOLY CRAP I KNOW THESE PEOPLE I'VE WORKED WITH SOME OF THEM, so I feel I may as well use this version.
Another on my list of songs with totally overdramatic lyrics and chords that I love in spite of -- no, because of -- their sheer drama. No matter how you present this song, as a choral piece or a pop solo or what, it demands to be belted. And for a song about the, er, joys of working in the city, I love the imagery.
(Dude, check out how awesome my school is. We staged Rocky Horror! I LOVE THIS PLACE.)
"Both Hands," Ani DiFranco
This is probably cheating, because the a cappella cover I have of this song hasn't shaped my spring -- it's been the top-played song on my iPod for the last, oh, two years? The imagery of it (I'm walking out in the rain) hits me every time.
This is not the exact cover I own, but it's the closest I could find.
I tag . . . whoever would like to share some music. *vagues about*
phoenixchilde for a music meme!List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening to.
Man. Okay. My music tastes tend to vary from hour to hour, let only day to day. In the last week or so, though, these are the songs I've had stuck in my head and that I've been playing on the piano every chance I get.
"Walk Through the Fire," "Once More With Feeling"
Recently I added to my profile a quote from one of my classes, when a guest lecturer asked "Who here watches Buffy?" When I immediately raised my hand, one of the other girls snickered and said "You would." (Tangentially, that still bugs me in curious sort of way. I mean -- what does that mean? That I'm so obviously a geek? Am I obviously a Buffy fan because I'm a girl who does martial arts? What the heck? What stereotype have I been placed in? Whatever -- it means that when my advisor tells the class that "Like the Giles to your Buffy, I'm here to help," I get it. So there.)
Anyway. I like Joss Whedon and Buffy (for a variety of reasons that I should write about sometime). I like theatre. I love "Once More With Feeling." This song has been stuck in my head since Sunday, when another Buffy fan and I were working on a different song for an open mic night and ended up looking up the chords for OMWF and singing through, well, most of the show. And I like this song. I like the power chords, I like the interweaving of themes about two-thirds in, I like the sheer overdramatic power of the voices, the lyrics, the choreography. If we do indeed get up the resources to stage OMWF here at CMU, this other Buffy fan and I, I want to sing Buffy -- for many reasons, but pretty high on this list is this song.
"American Tune," Paul Simon
This song breaks my heart even when it lifts me up. I can't exactly say why. Maybe it's the spiritual theme; the melody is based on Bach's "St. Matthew Passion." Maybe it's Paul Simon's voice, although Art Garfunkel's light voice and the harmonies those two create makes it hit me even harder.
It's a source of intense frustration to me that in its original key, it's too high for me to sing without jumping around octaves. I'm gonna have to transpose it somehow so I can play it and sing along.
"Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes," Paul Simon
Oh, man. Back in the days of Walkmans and cassette tapes, Graceland was undoubtedly what I listened to most (with some heavy competition from The Lion King on Broadway; now that I think about it, this is probably not coincidence). I can remember listening to this album on road trips, in my best friend's room, while running on the track at the gym (which means I must have still been listening to this obsessively when I was fourteen, since that's how old you had to be to use the track at our fitness club back home). Ladysmith Black Mombazo came to Anchorage right after I started college, so I missed them, and I was so mad. This album, and this song in particular, are ingrained in me.
Why is it shaping my spring? Good question. I'm not sure how I got on this Paul Simon kick -- I know it has something to do with this post, where I kind of on a whim gave Epimetheus a guitar and some Graceland to play, but I'm not sure what prompted that. All I know is (We come and we go) that this is what I've been singing the last couple weeks.
"Blackbird," Paul McCartney (Across the Universe cover)
One of the best Beatles' covers I've ever heard. I first heard this song at a Paul McCartney concert in 2002, and he told a story about how he wrote it in reaction to the civil rights movement in America, how he'd read a story about some young black woman standing up for her rights and he'd written this. It's a song about freedom, about lifting yourself up -- which is nice when you're counting down the days to the end of school.
Plus I love it in context because I'm totally in love with Joe Anderson. >.>
"Look at you," the Screaming Trees
(Ignore the SPN vid. I associate the song with SPN, specifically "Heart," where it was used, but I don't think it works emotionally with the scenes the vidder picked.)
I don't know quite why, but whenever it's sunny and clear out, I want this song on. Maybe it makes me look at things closer.
"Let the River Run," Carly Simon
I tried to find a choral version like the one I have on my iPod and couldn't, but HOLY CRAP I KNOW THESE PEOPLE I'VE WORKED WITH SOME OF THEM, so I feel I may as well use this version.
Another on my list of songs with totally overdramatic lyrics and chords that I love in spite of -- no, because of -- their sheer drama. No matter how you present this song, as a choral piece or a pop solo or what, it demands to be belted. And for a song about the, er, joys of working in the city, I love the imagery.
(Dude, check out how awesome my school is. We staged Rocky Horror! I LOVE THIS PLACE.)
"Both Hands," Ani DiFranco
This is probably cheating, because the a cappella cover I have of this song hasn't shaped my spring -- it's been the top-played song on my iPod for the last, oh, two years? The imagery of it (I'm walking out in the rain) hits me every time.
This is not the exact cover I own, but it's the closest I could find.
I tag . . . whoever would like to share some music. *vagues about*
