17 posts tagged “rock music lovers”
Another "Hetta Music" feature!
Shortly after Heather and I were married, I decided to buy her this CD. She had been saying since I'd met her that she felt like there wasn't anything out there anymore that she could really enjoy. She had basically gotten nauseated by what she was hearing on the radio, and she didn't know where to look for something more interesting. (By the way, since we've been married, her love of music has rekindled big time, and she continues to find new stuff that she likes, which is cool. Her brother and sister just found out yesterday that she likes a number of country music groups, and that really surprised them both.)
Anyway, after hearing her lament her condition again and again, I bought this CD and put it on her iPod. After coming back from a walk, she said to me that, yes, I was right that she would like this band. The Choir has an interesting, acoustic-based "alternative" rock sound and something of a sense of the morose. The words to this tune describe a woman everyone of us has met or will meet at some point in our lives.
I hope you all are doing okay. Heather's sister, Stacy, is in town for a few days (and Heather is struggling with feeling guilty for spending time with her because of all the work we have to do), and my sister's husband, Mical, is safely back from Afghanistan until the end of the month. At that time, he will go back for the second 4.5 months of his term. And (it's SO important for me to tell you this), I'm having a great time following Canadian football this summer.
Take care, all.
I just completed dealing with a situation concerning our Internet provider that I will have to blog about in detail once we're done building the business site. UNBELIEVABLE!
I admit that I was basically ignorant concerning Blondie prior to Heather. Although I wouldn't consider her a "fan" per se, she's the reason we own this CD. In contrast to what many believe, Blondie is NOT the blonde chick in the band. Blondie is just a band that happens to have a blonde lead singer. There's a heck of a lot of history behind this band that I know little about, although I find it amazing that they're still going (along with a slew of other geezers like the Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, and Rush).
The feelings conveyed by this tune's lyrics have been felt by any urban dweller who's been in the city for more than a mere few days or weeks. And they're kind of funny. The whole album, released in 2003, is actually quite good. Enjoy!
I bought this Midnight Oil CD a long, long time ago, and it's never gotten old to me. I'm playing it as a part of the "Hetta Music" thing I've been doing for some time now because she likes this band and especially this album. Their "earthy" sound and consistent vocal support for the environment and the less fortunate make them attractive to me and remind me of Heather.
I hope you all are doing fairly. Sorry I've not been reading any of your blogs, but I'm saving significant time by avoiding the blogosphere for the time being. The business site is getting bigger every day!
With the posting of my last tune (and the subsequent appearance of my picture of Spinal Tap on Vox's home page), there's been some revived conversation and laughter in our place concerning them. Heather particularly likes Spinal Tap, and the tune posted today is her favorite from what I can tell (because she laughs the hardest when she hears this particular tune). Another installation in my "Hetta Music" feature.
A little bit of trivia: if it's been a while since you've seen This Is Spinal Tap, or, gasp!, you've never seen it, this song is performed in the movie at an army base. The band is greeted by an obnoxious sergeant or whatever who reminds them that the crowd is going to be conservative and won't want the music to be too loud, etc. As the show begins, couples prepare to get out and dance as if to lounge music, and the band opens with "Sex Farm". Awesome.
By the way, one of the dork brothers from the band, Oasis, apparently cried when he discovered to his chagrin that Spinal Tap wasn't a real band. Genius, pure genius.
The lyrics to this tune are priceless, but I've opted not to post them as they might land me in jail or something.
I don't think anybody who grew up around the time I did hasn't heard this song. I heard it for the first time when I was in junior high school at a friend's house -- the same good friend who also had a Motley Crue poster on his wall that scared the crap out of me. Anyway, I liked it then, and I like it now. As does Heather. I quickly discovered that she was into 80s music, particularly "hair metal" and the like. Having both been born in the early 70s, that would make sense. I think I'll play several selections from the 80s before I'm done with this "Hetta Music" feature.
Gotta love Def Leppard!
I posted this tune once before, but it makes Heather laugh so hard that I've decided to post it again as a part of the "Hetta Music" feature. Again, if you're offended by profanity, you may want to skip this one. In my case, I think it's pretty funny, as was this (un)band.
Yes, this one actually does fit into the category of "Hetta Music". I had just purchased Hammered, the album this song is from, when Heather and I were going out. As you may know, we dated for a little less than two months when we eloped. So this album reminds me of our honeymoon big time.
AND, some time after we'd been married for a while, I came home from work and Motörhead was on the CD player. Heather still says the album reminds her of when we first met.
And it reminds me of what a frickin' cool wife I've got.
This is a totally different type of tune from Deep Purple, and the last I'm going to post for a long while. It's from an album called Bananas, and I like it. Hope you do as well.
That's it for this week. Cheers!
I've got to post this tune. It's subject matter (which I have confirmed) may or may not be obvious to you. If it's not, don't worry about it as it's not at all worth it.
I'm posting this tune for two reasons. One, it's an example of a more recent Deep Purple sound, with somewhat of a more typical usage of the keys than in past Purple albums. Second, I used to hear the beginning of this song, which sounds strangely different from the rest of it, at Chicago Blackhawks games all the time. I wonder if the Hawks knew what they were advertising?
I'll be posting one more by Deep Purple next week, and then I think it's time to move onto something else.
Although I only play music from my collection, if anybody has a request, I'll be happy to try to accommodate them if I've got something of that particular band!
I hope you all have finished your taxes by now. If not, hey, you've got until the end of tomorrow even. Why bother until, say, tomorrow evening around 9pm? Yeah...that should do it... I do know that a number of post offices will be open tomorrow until midnight, some of them even with workers on the curb to receive stamped returns from folks driving by. Kinda nutty if you ask me. I could brag and say we've had our refunds from the feds and the state for several weeks now, but that would be cruel, so I'll just pretend to do it and say I didn't.
Well, I'm posting Deep Purple's most recognizable and most popular song, "Smoke on the Water". Truthfully, I'm not a big fan of this song, but I figured I'd not be doing this band justice if I didn't feature their most well-known ditty at least once.
The funny thing about this tune is that it was never intended to be an actual song. According to some of the reading I've done, the song's introductory riff (a "riff" is simply a chord progression that repeats throughout a rock song, if you weren't sure) was used to warm up at the beginning of concerts. When they'd play the riff, though, fans began to become increasingly excited and agitated, assuming it was a song and wanting to hear more. The band finally decided that the only solution was to write a song around the riff, and the result is this week's Tune of the Week.
I hope you enjoy, and here's hoping none of you who've procrastinated in getting your taxes done have cardiac arrest in the process while you race the clock. Seriously, though, I'm sure you will all be fine. Good luck!
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