Day 4 of 5 …
Mike’s Songs
1) ‘You Beautiful Bastard’ by The Sea and Cake (Oui)
Yet again, the segue from the jazz of the last song to this here is a bit too serendipitous to be just random. But it was nice. The Sea and Cake are one of those bands that when I discovered them around 2002 or so instantly clicked as something I loved. Their mixture of rich jazz chords, pop sensibilities and their often electronic approach sounded like something that I envisioned as a genre mixture that The Missing Trio (our band at the time) could accomplish. This song could very easily fit into that style that I was aiming for on our own song “Trio Nocturne.” The Chicago-based supergroup with guys like Sam Prekop, Archer Prewitt and the amazing drummer\multi-instrumentalist\producer extraordinaire John McIntire sometimes doesn’t stray much from their staple subtle and mellow sound, or even Prekop’s vocal cadence, but its those details that are their strengths. A great mellow song.
Greg’s Songs
1) ‘Pyramid Song’ by Radiohead (Amnesiac)
One of my favorites from Radiohead. This song has a great drum sound. I love when Phil comes in with snare roll and ride pattern and then the simple snare-tom triplet entrance to the full beat. I really like this song because it’s such a quietly dark song, not heavy or bashing. The string pulls are perfect to thicken out the peak of the song. How can such a simple vamp be so great?
Aryn’s Songs
1) ‘Walk It Down’ by Talking Heads (Little Creatures)
I think this is one of the crappier Talking heads songs.. Also from one of their albums that I don’t frequent. Complete with syncopation, Byrne vocal runs, choral chorus’ where they change in that all too familiar Talking Heads way. I hope I am not crapping on a classic here.. if it is I apologize, I just don’t find it too classic to me( not sure if it really is or not, but my intuition points to no).
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I don’t know Aryn, I just listened to that Talking Heads song and I sort of liked it. Granted its nothing as good as anything on Remain in Light, but sturdy good song.
Pyramid Song might be one of my favourite songs not only on Amnesiac, but in their repertoire. Amnesiac is definitely the most underrated album by the band.
Well, I’m going to stand by my original classification on the TH song “walk it down”.. I guess its one of those things where a crappy TH song is still WAY better than 90% of the shit out there, but I really think that this one is just bland. Yes its got all of the standard Byrne style in it, but I just feel that its been dialed in or something.. oh well, I don’t have to love EVERYTHING by an artist do I?