Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want

The Dream Academy - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want

Slade

I cannot believe I've never really heard Slade before! They were amazing!

I'm sorry I hadn't heard of Slade earlier. Glad I know them now!

making We Are Born

part 1

part 2

part 3

part 4

part 5

John Frusciante Dark/Light

Inspiring video.

Twenty One Pilots revisited

music for this mood

twenty one pilots

My latest obsession is one my brother introduced to me. twenty one pilots is a fascinating and seemingly so far wholesome band. The spiritual background of some of the talent behind them results in music that makes one think. In that way they're similar to Danielson. Musically, they're nothing like Danielson. I have no idea who to compare them to musically. They are pretty unique. A little OK-Go, a little Eminem. Yet not like these at all. A lot of variety.

Poxy Boggards' family friendly songs

The Poxy Boggards are an American all-male folk band based in Pasadena. They were founded in 1994 at the Southern California Renaissance Pleasure Faire. While extremely talented and entertaining, much of their music is in an inappropriate thematic genre, usually about alcohol and sex. Despite this, many of their songs are perfectly enjoyable by all ages and family friendly fans.

This blog post collects some of those songs that the family can enjoy.




here's a start:

• Danny Boy
• Here's To It
• Mingulay Boat Song
• O, Virginia
• Rolling Down to Old Maui
• Star of County Down
• Up and Away

I was pulled over by the police

tonight, on my bicycle. for not having a light.


here's a song...

Momentary Lapse of Season

As a school bus dispatcher, this is a change of season. School ends and Summer school is about to start. For someone in this position, what this looks like is many hours of entering newly acquired routes into a computer for drivers to read directions. It is a test of endurance of doing the same kind of data entry for very long periods of time with tons of interuptions. And then after hours there are precious periods where no one else is around when one can lose themselves in the work. This album has become my sustaining soundtrack of now. I've had it for years and never delved too deeply. I'm grateful to have held on to it for all this time. It is a true gem.

Soundtrack of Now

Thank you, Greg, for throwing this gem in front of my radar. I love this.


John Frusciante
Dark/Light

A-Ha vs U2

I never really cared for this song...



because I've always loved this song...


I can't be the only one to hear the similarities!

One thing nostalgic about the U2 song, though. Schmitty used it as an audio PA sound check EVERY MORNING when I was working the very very early AM shift at KSTP. I found it slightly comforting and quite optimistic of him. That was where I very first heard the U2 song. And every time I was reminded of A-Ha. There was a strange synergy in the whole thing because the sun always shines on TV, while we're doing our pre-checks for live television broadcast. And Bono reassured me that it was a beautiful day, even when Patrick Hammer said otherwise.

Soundtrack of Now

Here are some of the songs I've been turning up lately...

Ayreon - The Final Experiment

This album has been the center of my musical obsession all week. First I love the prog-rock elements. The metal is a guilty pleasure. Much of the music often reminds me of Mannheim Steamroller christmas music, over the top and sometimes cheesy. It's metal, but it still has that 1990's saccharin positiveness. Not that angry metal that's out now. Epic fantasy rock. Great stuff.

THIS IS THE VOICE OF MERLIN. LISTEN WELL,
FOR IT CONCERNS YOU. THIS CHRONICLE COMMENCES IN THE YEAR 2084 A.D.
MANKIND HAS VIRTUALLY DESTROYED ITSELF.
IT'S SURVIVAL DEPENDS ON 'THE FINAL EXPERIMENT'.
SCIENTISTS FROM THE 21ST CENTURY HAVE DEVELOPED
A NEW COMPUTERPROGRAM CALLED 'TIME TELEPATHY'.
BY USING THIS TECHNIQUE THEY HAVE SENT VISIONS OF HUMANITIES'
DECLINE BACK IN TIME. THESE TRANSMISSIONS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED BY THE MIND
OF A BLIND MINSTREL WHO LIVES IN 6TH CENTURY GREAT BRITAIN. HIS NAME ....
IS 'AYREON'.

The Final Experiment is the first album under Ayreon. Are the subsequent albums more visions the blind minstrel experiences and sings? Perhaps Ayreon overcame Merlin's curse!

Soundtrack of Now

It is spring and winter has [finally] stopped appearing. It's wearing-shorts-nice. School is ending just over the horizon. Trees are budding. It's lighter later.

This post is a snapshot of some of the music that has caught my interest on primarily 89.3 the Current. These are songs that I will either allow to play or actually turn up the volume on. Songs I enjoy and look forward to.

The soundtrack of this chapter, if you will.

Gentle Giant Octopus

Gentle Giant - Octopus

So my mind was blown a tiny bit yesterday. On my commute I opted to listen to Gentle Giant. The only album I have of this amazing and extremely prog-rock group is Octopus. The music is of a nature that might blow one's mind, on it's own. But then...

Later, as the kids are getting ready for bed, Jack shows me his latest favorite library book. Gentle Giant Octopus.

Took me a few seconds to figure out what was going on.

5 Reasons to Kill Christian Music

Here's an interesting article that I think is appropriate. There are very few Christian bands that are of much quality.

5 Reasons to Kill Christian Music

 Several years ago I had a moment to actually talk with Daniel Smith of the Danielson Famile and asked something about his influences and about being a Christian band. He replied along the lines that he doesn't consider himself a Christan band. They are just a band that make songs about things that are important to them.

I believe that is the healthiest philosophy for anything.

Recently having rediscovered the music from 2nd Chapter of Acts, I've been enjoying the tracks that aren't so overtly Christian the most.

There was a South Park episode that illustrates this point perfectly, actually (because, you know as awful as that show is, they are very honest).

Christian Rock Hard

Narnia

My kids are often requesting to listen to Narnia!

This is a huge personal win for me. This album, more than any other, influenced a great deal of my life as it is now.

Roar of Love by 2nd Chapter of Acts is a concept album telling the C.S. Lewis fantasy novel- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe with fantastic '70s music with lots of synthesized effects and amazing harmonies. It is, in my opinion, the band's greatest album.

Listening to the music again, lately, I've discovered that this is most likely the source of much of the music I find passion in these days. This very record (and a few of 2nd Chapter of Act's others) where engraved on my brain from the start.

The 1970s had the best music.

On top of the great music the message is wondrous. Through the downs and ups of my spiritual walk, I have come to consider C.S. Lewis as my spiritual leader- come to realize that he is would probably be more accurate. The gospel message interlaced through the story is perfect.



And lastly, this is a fantasy story. Other worlds, witches, magic, swords and shields... you can't go wrong with that kind of world. All of the Chronicles of Narnia are wonderful and based on sound theology.

So when my kids want to hear Narnia, I consider it a victory every time.

2nd Chapter of Acts - Mansion Builder

2nd Chapter of Acts - Mansion Builder

Started listening to this on the way home from work this evening and wasn't expecting the impact it made on me.

I actually can't wait for my commute to work tomorrow morning!

The lyrical content has a whole different dimension for me now in this point of my walk.

The music strikes me over and over reminding me that this is a majority of the core that forms my everlasting interest of what I am passionate about in music. Especially the dynamic bass lines here.

The Mamas and the Papas - The Papas and the Mamas album

This is, in my opinion, their finest album. And I've misplaced my copy. But here it is:

The Papas and the Mamas