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RHYTHM AND RHYME AND HARMONY ....
Apr. 1st, 2015 09:23 pmSo last January, on Facebook, I started a series of posts counting down my 365 favorite songs, or at least 365 songs that I particularly like(d) at that particular point in time. I thought it would be over in a year, but I haven't gotten around to posting every day ... or every week ... or even every month. So we're only up to around #290 after around 15 months.
Facebook is notoriously horrible for accessing old posts, so I finally figured I would archive the old selections here, five at a time.
So here goes:
LDW'S PREFERRED TUNEZES, #365: DRIFT AWAY - Dobie Gray (1973, written by Mentor Williams)
So awhile back, for no apparent reason other than curiosity and the idle thought of constructing the Ultimate Playlist, I scribbled down my picks for my 365 favorite all-time songs (favorite at that given moment in time, anyway). And figured that I might as well share 'em, one day at a time, for a Year of Posts.
We start at #365, with a song that has sentimental associations for me: It was an occasional earworm for my father, who was known to launch into it at odd times -- driving the pickup, at the dinner table, hoisting Sheetrock, etc. It was a touch incongruous because if you knew my dad, you know he was no rock-and-roller by any stretch of the imagination; by and large, to him music began and ended with Southern gospel quartets such as The Florida Boys, the Masters V and The Statesmen. But he'd get the odd rock or country earworm from time to time, and "Drift Away" was the most frequent. And I can see why: It's not just catchy, it's *hopeful* and soulful and transcendent; it speaks of the power of music, of communal artistry, to lift us up. To get us lost in a way that we truly find who we are. "I want you to know I believe in your song." Indeed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIuyDWzctgY
LDW'S PREFERRED TUNEZES, #364 : SKIN - Bill Mallonee (Vigilantes of Love) (1995)
No offense to Don McLean, but this is my favorite song about Vincent van Gogh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7lhFXZDMtE
LDW'S PREFERRED TUNEZES, #363: SOME NIGHTS — .fun (2012)
Really? Yeah, even though I'm pretty much apathetic to Music The Kids Are Into These Days -- as I was when I was one of the Kids These Days back in the '80s -- but I kinda like .fun. I have Diane Brietzke Paine to blame for it: While her tastes are quite eclectic, encompassing Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Grateful Dead, she tends to leave the top-40 station on the car and insisted we see .fun at CMAC. I'm liking their harmonies and arrangements, as well as the lead singer's voice. Don't quite get the Civil War-themed video, but y'know. (Caution: language)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQkBeOisNM0
LDW'S PREFERRED TUNEZES, #362: WHAT ABOUT US — The Coasters (1959, written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller)
In which a subtle touch of social commentary is injected into the Coasters' ("Yakity Yak," "Charlie Brown") winsome clownifying. And, as usual, dig that bass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMLFNmtmRAE
LDW'S PREFERRED TUNEZES, #361: MERCY NOW — Mary Gauthier (2005)
Every living thing could use a little mercy now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT7NiFpJmvI
Facebook is notoriously horrible for accessing old posts, so I finally figured I would archive the old selections here, five at a time.
So here goes:
LDW'S PREFERRED TUNEZES, #365: DRIFT AWAY - Dobie Gray (1973, written by Mentor Williams)
So awhile back, for no apparent reason other than curiosity and the idle thought of constructing the Ultimate Playlist, I scribbled down my picks for my 365 favorite all-time songs (favorite at that given moment in time, anyway). And figured that I might as well share 'em, one day at a time, for a Year of Posts.
We start at #365, with a song that has sentimental associations for me: It was an occasional earworm for my father, who was known to launch into it at odd times -- driving the pickup, at the dinner table, hoisting Sheetrock, etc. It was a touch incongruous because if you knew my dad, you know he was no rock-and-roller by any stretch of the imagination; by and large, to him music began and ended with Southern gospel quartets such as The Florida Boys, the Masters V and The Statesmen. But he'd get the odd rock or country earworm from time to time, and "Drift Away" was the most frequent. And I can see why: It's not just catchy, it's *hopeful* and soulful and transcendent; it speaks of the power of music, of communal artistry, to lift us up. To get us lost in a way that we truly find who we are. "I want you to know I believe in your song." Indeed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIuyDWzctgY
LDW'S PREFERRED TUNEZES, #364 : SKIN - Bill Mallonee (Vigilantes of Love) (1995)
No offense to Don McLean, but this is my favorite song about Vincent van Gogh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7lhFXZDMtE
LDW'S PREFERRED TUNEZES, #363: SOME NIGHTS — .fun (2012)
Really? Yeah, even though I'm pretty much apathetic to Music The Kids Are Into These Days -- as I was when I was one of the Kids These Days back in the '80s -- but I kinda like .fun. I have Diane Brietzke Paine to blame for it: While her tastes are quite eclectic, encompassing Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Grateful Dead, she tends to leave the top-40 station on the car and insisted we see .fun at CMAC. I'm liking their harmonies and arrangements, as well as the lead singer's voice. Don't quite get the Civil War-themed video, but y'know. (Caution: language)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQkBeOisNM0
LDW'S PREFERRED TUNEZES, #362: WHAT ABOUT US — The Coasters (1959, written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller)
In which a subtle touch of social commentary is injected into the Coasters' ("Yakity Yak," "Charlie Brown") winsome clownifying. And, as usual, dig that bass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMLFNmtmRAE
LDW'S PREFERRED TUNEZES, #361: MERCY NOW — Mary Gauthier (2005)
Every living thing could use a little mercy now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT7NiFpJmvI
