So I am going to admit it I am a HUGE Justin Beber's fan. Laugh it's okay my love will never die. Anyway... So I was surfing youtube as I usually do and I found a cover that a group called Legaci did of his song Baby. Now Legaci mostly does youtube video covers but they are getting started the same way Justin Beber's did so there is nothing wrong with that. What I like about them is that their vocals and compositions are really solid. They have amazing great harmonies and take songs and manage to make them their own. This kind of music excites me because you have the ability to chronicle the process. So check out Legaci!
Funny enough I happened to check out this band because I liked their name. Just Joshing (kinda) this band is hard to describe they are pretty mixed genre but their C.D. Challengers flows so amazingly well together it's hard not to get caught up. The New Pornographers got my attention because they have a reminiscent sound. Most of their songs could soundtrack several of the pivotal moments of my life. I am sure that property is transcendental and that their music could be the soundtrack to most people's lives. Most of the songs on their Myspace only play half way through so I am posting a youtube video with this post press play and enjoy.
My Rights Versus Yours by The New Pornographers Under your wheels, the hope of spring Mirage of loss, a few more things You left your sorrow dangling It hangs in air like a school cheer
Complex notes inside the chords On every wall inflections carved Deep as lakes and dark as stars Remember we were the volunteers
(Ooooh) Courts knew this and nothing more (Ooooh) Now it's my rights versus yours
Under your wheels, your hopeless reign You fall too hard-we're up too late We hang suspended from the heights Until it's safer to walk here
Under your wheels, your chance is with The easy call, the called-off search The medicine, it still won't work But there's dangerous levels of it here
(Ooooh) Same thing as the other time (Ooooh) But now it's your rights versus mine
The truth in one free afternoon The truth in one free afternoon
Under my wheels the chance is held Gave me to save me from myself Spectacles painted with my shaking hand
Fingers in paints, in paints we brought Thinking we'd leave them when we're not Flying the flags of new empires in rags
The new empire in rags The truth in one free afternoon A new empire in rags The truth in one free afternoon A new empire in rags The truth in one free afternoon A new empire in rags The truth in one free afternoon
Under your wheels, the fits and starts The time to dabble in the arts To tease the packs of dogs in charge But kid it's all wasted on me
Under your wheels, the hope of spring Mirage of loss, a few more things The medicine it still won't sing But there's dangerous levels of it here
(Your rights over my rights now We came to the right place Your rights over my rights now Your rights over my rights now We came to the right place Your rights over my rights now Your rights over my rights now)
I found out about this band by accident. I happened too be watching an episode of Kyle XY (which is a show I never watch but it was late and my warm milk hadn't soaked in yet, not that its not a good show. Whatever) and the song Nevermind the phone calls came on. It peaked my interest and so I did some research and found them on several soundtracks for tv shows from Kyle XY, to House M.D. to The Riches. This is one of those bands that people hear on tv and is infectious but they get minimal radio play. Don't let that foul you into thinking they are not amazing it just means they aren't completely mainstreamed. So check them out.
Hymn and Her is the most recent release from Earlimart take a listen to it. The melodies are so beautifully arranged and the lyrics are reflective and awe inspired. This band takes you there. However, I really love their previous album Mentor Tormentor because it is more of a sublime and nostalgic album that reflects on loneliness and love. It is an interesting and not so classic take on the love song and the pining song.
If you want to know more about Earlimart here is a link to their site www.earlimartmusic.com
Happy Alone by Earlimart Call in the airstrike, tell them to make the drop and initiciate a cycle no-one but you can stop Would it be fair to say that you're in love with love? And is that enough?
I bet you feel really potent stuff the shadows of doubt on how things turn out are typically gray
But even the stucco on the wall is right two times a day and it's still enough
Just how much distance means we're on our own? and can we be happy Happy alone?
The universe opens up the door and we go right in, it's there, it's new, it's cool it's something we ain't seen before
And five minutes in an egg timer rings to clip off our carefree flapping wings show us the things we can't afford and throw us overboard but it's still enough.
Just how much distance means we're on our own? until i see you off at home down the sidewalk in my head I might be sinking like a stone but perfectly happy just openly happy
In my home, I've always known I gotta be happy alone so burn the mail, destroy the phone yeah, I'd wanna be happy alone the moving sky, the rocks below All so perfectly happy alone
So the story behind this band is that I heard their song No Children a few years ago (by a few years ago I mean like 4 years ago) and it was so depressingly up lifting that I fell had over heals for it. Unfortunately, I heard it on a burnt C.D. in my friend's car and it has haunted me ever since.
Not knowing the band name or the name of the song I was screwed so I forgot about it. Ever so often the songs chorus would pop into my head ("I hope you die I hope we both die") and other random lines.
So eventually I googled it using the lyrics I knew and since then have found out that The Mountain Goats sing the song No Children. Coincidentally, the rest of their stuff is just as bad ass. Here's some wikipedia history.
Mountain Goats embodies an experimental style of music which they mix with catchy and pithy lyrics. They have a very folky and frothy sound that radiates joy. I like to think of them as a dark comedy band because of their mix of the upbeat musicality and their sardonic lyrics.
No Children By The Mountain Goats
I hope that our few remaining friends give up on trying to save us. I hope we come up with a fail-safe plot to piss off the dumb few that forgave us. I hope the fences we mended fall down beneath their own weight. And I hope we hang on past the last exit; I hope its already too late. And I hope the junkyard a few blocks from here someday burns down; and I hope the rising black smoke carries me far away, and i never come back to this town again.
in my life, i hope i lie, and tell everyone you were a good wife. and i hope you die! i hope we both die!
I hope I cut myself shaving tomorrow; I hope it bleeds all day long. Our friends say its darkest before the sun rises, we're pretty sure they're all wrong. I hope it stays dark forever. I hope the worst isn't over. I hope you blink before I do. I hope I never get sober. And I hope when you think of me years down the line, you can't find one good thing to say. And i'd hope that if I'd found the strength to walk out, you'd stay the hell out of my way.
i am drowning. there is no sign of land. you are coming down with me, hand in unloveable hand. and i hope you die! i hope we both die!
This blog is in response to this question "Who is that you are listening to?"
I am not going to pretend to be an expert in anything that has to do with music or even say that I have remotely great taste in music, that is not to say that I don't love everything I listen to but I will say that no one ever knows who the hell I am talking about when I talk about music. So since it breaks my heart every time I have made a decision I am going to post a different band that I like on here and tell you why I like them and I encourage all of you that read this (because obviously you have nothing better to do) to go look them up. Kapish?
With a vibe that is very reminiscent of what was done with rock music in the eighties which they combine with a smooth and haunting sound of their own. This is definitely music to vibe too.
I heard of them on the BUTR podcast and I fell in love with their song Nothing Is Real and coincidentally the rest of the stuff they have posted on their page. Check them out. Their lyrics are really amazing and so is their guitarist. Pay attention to what they are singing and get caught up in it.
