You know what I realized a few weeks ago? I’ve been writing Song of the Day for 2 years, yeah on February 8, 2010 I wrote my very first Song of the Day on the Smashing Pumpkins forums and it’s been one hell of a ride since then.
Now there wasn’t too much thought process behind doing it other then the attempts to make a thread on there that I could consistently keep updated unlike the other board members at that time and I did to very little feedback in fact most of the members I’m sure mocked me but you know I decided to say fuck it and kept pressing through and eventually after some time I started to thoroughly feel that my abilities as a writer were greatly improving and with the suggestion of a good friend I decided to expand and launch this blog that I’ve been maintaining for just over a year now. It was one hell of a trip keeping posted on the forums, this blog, and my personal Facebook account but I did until of course when I reached the year long anniversary where I made the sad announcement to quit the thread on the Forums and devote myself full time to this website.
Now let’s cut this sad talk because this is a cause of celebration people I’ve been doing this shit for 2 years and I don’t plan on stopping any day soon so let’s get to discussing the things I’ve noticed after doing this for so long.
Fun facts for all fun facts in deed ever since I’ve been doing this I felt it’d be a good idea to keep a list of all the songs I’ve written about and a little log of the number of times I’ve mentioned any particular artist and since I love countdowns I think I’m going to tell you guy’s the top 5 most represented acts and my impressions upon realizing the numbers.
5. Placebo 7 Song’s of the Day
If you know me personally you know I’ve been quite the fan of this little British Trio for quite some time and the fact that they’ve clocked in so many Songs of the day shouldn’t be any surprise.
There’s not much to really say while I do have a tendency to listen to them in certain mindsets and such they’ve honestly made some of the most criminally overlooked tunes with the posted video being an example of such. With a variety of sounds from the dirties of rift rockers to these kind of out there electronic tinged danceable cuts they’ve made songs for every possible interest I’ve had over these two years and time and time again I’ve found myself coming back and reminding myself just why I hold them in high esteem by wanting to bring up a song that truly does speak to me and with many more on the way I’m pretty sure these guys will rope me back in soon enough.
4. Foo Fighters 8 Entries
That cut right there should be more then enough a reason to bring up just why I’ve written about these guys so much so quickly. Wasting Light is one hell of an album and upon listening to this song and then the album I found myself having a new found respect and admiration for a band that I always felt made good songs but hadn’t yet clicked with me.
It is surprising yes to realize that I wrote about 8 different songs but hey I don’t see no problem in that especially when you get to the next two acts like…
3. Neon Trees 9 Entries
This last year has had a lot to do with these numbers I will admit but looking at this I pretty much wrote the equivalent of their whole first album god damn people.
Ok all joking aside I really can’t lie this little power pop group really has made some quality numbers like the one I posted above, and really the fact that the album in question was just filled to the brim with equally worthwhile cuts I really couldn’t help but write about these guys in a pinch. Big chorus’ simple rifts, and a variety of styles really gives these guys a chameleon like quality that managed to give them a tune to describe every possible thing I was going through and time and time again I just had to tell you guys how bad ass one of their songs has been and again their nowhere near ready to quit this so let’s hope the rest of the world gives these guys a shot.
2. Cee-Lo, “Mo Fakun Lady Killa Green,” 17 Entries
I’m aware that it shouldn’t be a surprise that he’s number 2 but HOLY DAMN people 17 cuts from this smoother then smooth boss hoss of a performer and its’ all because of the epic work that is The Lady Killer.
Yes I love that album and pretty much all of the tunes that followed. I was taken at Fuck You and I stayed because he really was someone that just delivered time and time again and the fact that he felt to let the internet be home to some lesser known cuts lead me to not only have to listen to him but write about him pretty much every month for a year straight and if he continues this way he MIGHT just dethrone the champions of champions which if you couldn’t of guessed it by this point well then you just might not know me that well.
1. The Smashing Pumpkins 24 Entries
Ok now in a show of hands who honestly did not expect this to be the case really let me count.
Ok if not only being started on their fan site wasn’t enough these guy’s are my favorite band of all time period the end no questions asked and it’s been that way for as long as I’ve loved this crazy little thing called music people and in the two years I’ve written these songs of the day they’ve been working on that massive behemoth of a project that is Teargarden By Kaleidoscope and of course with each new cut I felt some contractual obligation to discuss and of course with the massive flooding of bands that have interested me over these two years the only constant is that I’ll always have a moment where I fall back on one of their cuts and be reminded just why I love them.
There’s very few outlets where we all feel our voice’s to be spoken and for me this band has made everything I possibly could and will forever want through the rifts and lyrics of one William Patrick Corgan and if my undying gratitude of fandom isn’t enough of a reason to have written about them so much then I’ll never know what is and because of that the most covered artist amongst my collection of tunes has been The Smashing Pumpkins.
It’s crazy really to think of just how many possible things I’ve covered over the past two years and the shifts in interest and genres covered are quite astounding and while I couldn’t really bring myself to figuring out the statistics of genres covered and such there’s one last things that I feel needs to be brought up like….
The first song I ever wrote about for Song of the Day was a cover of the song, “Lovers in A Dangerous Time,” by the Barenaked Ladies, and the reason I bring that up is because looking at my top list you’ll notice there’s a lot of respected alternative acts that in some way are me exercising my credibility muscle but of course the first thing I feel to write about is a band that I’ll occasionally feel a bit embarrassed to say I like because of the fact that their decidedly pop in many ways.
But at the time I started this I was finishing High school and there wasn’t a whole lot going on in my life, I had reached the end of my teenage years and it was time to start being an adult but for whatever reason the only thing I wanted to do was my Choir Class at the time. Yes I know that’s a bit odd to say but it was my last real thing to do and at the time of course like many a person there was a girl I was interested in, but of course in details I’m not willing to talk about opportunities where lost and all I was left with was the desire to sing a song that actually required some talent and that’s where this song came in.
There’s really something magical about this song and it’s messages of love being possible in even the harshest of conditions and of course the fact that this is the most prime example of just how vocally talented this group was just lead me to have this song on endless repeat….that and I think I was just getting hooked on the phenomenon that is Glee but we’ll ignore that whole part for the more credible but cheestatic sounding story now where was I?
Oh yeah this song’s always been a personal favorite of mine and because the band in question kind of shaped my interest to listen to a little bit of everything I felt that starting out with something a bit out there but accessible would lead me to feel comfortable to cover a wide range of tunes and I’m glad to say that has proven correct so why don’t we wrap this bad boy up by raising a toast to Sam’s Song of the Day here’s to more songs to come.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Sams Best of 2011
You know I’ve been seeing a lot of Best of 2011 list floating around the internet and TV and I figured since I enjoy top 5’s and it’s just that time of year to do so I’d compose my picks for the best cuts of the year, but before I get into anything I’m going to point out that while I enjoy just being all about me, myself, and I on this faithful little blog I’m going to have to point out a few tunes that while aren’t the most quality tunes that really do deserve to be noted for just how freaking big they were this year like…
5. Super Bass-Nicki Minaj
This year was chocked full of high energy pop infused electronic mess’ all over radio and for the better part of this year I was forced to listen to quite a bit of top 40 and of all the guilty pleasures I endured this one was honestly the biggest surprise. Now I’ve always been aware of Nicki Minaj and her various assets, but the music she does at best was a very well done series of Rap Verses and easily avoidable songs but one day I’m trolling the Youtube’s and I see this odd little square box for this Video on the main page for this song with a very pink Nicki and decided to give it the old college heave ho and give this song a listen.
I’m not going to lie to you at first I was a good bit unprepared for the 808 heavy blast of sugary sweet pop coated catchiness that I was about to listen to and for whatever reason the only thing that came to mind was that white people would love this….Don’t judge me.
Needless to say I was more then correct because not too soon after a Taylor Swift endorsement this song blew the fuck up and the next thing I know I’m hearing it EVERYWEHRE and while I will note that Party Rock Anthem was the bigger tune this one I feel I would rather note as being worthwhile in the realms of pop tunes I have to note as being worthwhile to losing some credibility over.
Ok I’m going to make note that Pop radio always tries to get atleast one alternative act into their rotation of tunes in order to 1. Give people a break from the auto tuned mess and 2. Give some sense of credibility but every year something odd seems to creep in and oh was this year’s underdog a dozy.
4. Pumped Up Kicks-Foster and the People
Now if threre was one surprisingly HUGE hit that occurred this year it’d be this song by a landslide because I honestly didn’t even remotely expect this spaced out little jam about someone losing their shit and going on a killing spree to even remotely crack top 40 but for whatever reason by the grace of god these guys have become the breakout act of 2011.
You know even after the massive amount of radio play this song has been subjugated to it still has this kind of refreshingly strung out sound to it that’s still as warm and tripped out as the first time I heard it and thought Pumped was some radio edit. The sheer hypnotic nature of this little indie rock gem seemed to really creep into radio and just took over person after person and while I will admit that Mumford and Sons folk rock styling’s where the kick in the balls modern radio needed this song just more seems like a radio staple that’s less pretentious more accessible and think for that it really is one of the best tunes and my personal pick for brake out song of 2011.
Now as great as this song is your reading Sam’s Song Of the Day people and if you’ve been reading every day you know that there’s one particular artist that’s probably dominated more post then anyone else this year.
3. Cry Baby-Cee-Lo Green
AHHHHH yeah people it’s time to yet again write about the all mighty lady killer himself Cee-Lo, “MO Fakun Lady Killa,” Green and I’m guessing this choice is at best a bit confusing but let me explain myself here.
Ok now I’m going to have to say people that while, “Fuck You,” was not only a monumentally amazing number and the most gratifyingly successful number of the year I personally feel that while the song as a whole lacks what really is the finer points of the Lady Killer album which is the showcasing of how Cee-Lo is really the modern day sultan of soul, the man with the master plan to make all them panties drop, the undeniably most well crafted performer out there when it comes to taking that retro-grooved sound and making it sound like an instant classic and of all the songs off the masterpiece that is The Lady Killer I feel that this is the best released single in terms of giving the listener an idea of what’s to come on that album.
Although now that I’m sitting here listening to it for the sake of really being able to review it I’ve come to realize that over its sincerely soulful vocal performance and it’s slower pace it’s really one of the classiest get the hell over yourself tunes I’ve ever heard and in it’s smoother then smooth sound it’s hiding this mildly egocentric tale of how her broke the ex-lovers heart to a point where she’s now made him the bad guy in this situation which is both classy and awesome, but even an amusingly off beat video staring the all mighty Urkle couldn’t catapult this song to the heights of the next two tunes which to say the least was a decision I really had to think hard about.
2. Rolling in the Deep-Adele
Honestly amongst the heap of tunes that felt the desire to come out this year this one slowly but surely managed to chug it’s ever so powerfully soulful sound onto radio and just carved out a path of destruction that almost no one could match.
This song was a slow burner in a lot of ways because the first time I heard it I didn’t really quite understand what I was about to be completely overtaken by but this song grew and grew and then out of nowhere it just suddenly became this behemoth of a hit that everyone just couldn’t escape and didn’t really want to for that matter. This song is even now after so many rotations still this overwhelmingly huge sounding blast of misery that only someone who is both pissed off and vocally gifted could do because this song just starts off ever so simply with a bare boned guitar and Adele’s voice in a hollow room before then erupting in this huge almost tribal sound that she then belts out these god given bits of rage and power that just grab you from the heart strings and make you want to yell fuck you to that person that broke your heart this year.
Really this song is just one of many cuts on an album that really deserves all the credit as being the best of the year and as great as this song and it’s corresponding album are I just can’t call it number one even though every single best off 2011 list out there from Rolling Stone to VH1 would like to tell me there was just one song this year that blew my mind in ways I really couldn’t of ever figured it would and that would be….
1. Rope-Foo Fighters
Now if there was one song this year that I can say that not only made an impact on me that was both instantaneous and lasting it was this and not only did this song blow my damn mind but it finally made me realize just why these guys are constantly considered to be the best, yes ladies and gentlemen I have finally found the way of the foo.
As powerful as Adele’s voice is nothing beats the rush of power an electric guitar can bring and not only did they bring the rock they made my choice for the greatest song of 2011.
To be honesty I’ve always been on the fence about this band because as much as I dislike Dave Grohl as a person I’ve always felt that this band really just makes very catchy records that all grow old as soon as the radio decides to rotate them every five minutes but this song was different. From the first time I really heard the echoing intro I wasn’t sure what to expect but then out of nowhere I suddenly got blasted with this furiously steady stream of ever so heavy guitars before then being greeted with the familiar sound of Dave Grohl giving a very melodic verse before then erupting in a series of bouncing yelps before then singing this ever so larger then life Chorus that instantaneously made me have to go listen to this song another 150 times and buy the album.
No shit people this song alone made walk out and buy a copy of what was to be a surprisingly amazing album and even now after so many rotations just like the first time I ever heard this song I still can’t control my desire to jump up and scream this song as I feverously air guitar the fuck out of this very garage-rock influenced rocker that brought just the right amount of ass kicking rockers Alternative rock radio needed amongst the haze of electro-indie dominance and for that I have to give it credit as being my choice as the best song of 2011.
Well there you go people those are my picks for the 5 best songs of 2011 it really has been a bad ass year for music which is both a surprise and a pleasant change I can’t wait to go through yet another years batch of songs of the day hopefully covering some bad ass tunes before this predicted end of the world.
Thank you for reading this year here's to another year of shenanigans.
-Sam
5. Super Bass-Nicki Minaj
This year was chocked full of high energy pop infused electronic mess’ all over radio and for the better part of this year I was forced to listen to quite a bit of top 40 and of all the guilty pleasures I endured this one was honestly the biggest surprise. Now I’ve always been aware of Nicki Minaj and her various assets, but the music she does at best was a very well done series of Rap Verses and easily avoidable songs but one day I’m trolling the Youtube’s and I see this odd little square box for this Video on the main page for this song with a very pink Nicki and decided to give it the old college heave ho and give this song a listen.
I’m not going to lie to you at first I was a good bit unprepared for the 808 heavy blast of sugary sweet pop coated catchiness that I was about to listen to and for whatever reason the only thing that came to mind was that white people would love this….Don’t judge me.
Needless to say I was more then correct because not too soon after a Taylor Swift endorsement this song blew the fuck up and the next thing I know I’m hearing it EVERYWEHRE and while I will note that Party Rock Anthem was the bigger tune this one I feel I would rather note as being worthwhile in the realms of pop tunes I have to note as being worthwhile to losing some credibility over.
Ok I’m going to make note that Pop radio always tries to get atleast one alternative act into their rotation of tunes in order to 1. Give people a break from the auto tuned mess and 2. Give some sense of credibility but every year something odd seems to creep in and oh was this year’s underdog a dozy.
4. Pumped Up Kicks-Foster and the People
Now if threre was one surprisingly HUGE hit that occurred this year it’d be this song by a landslide because I honestly didn’t even remotely expect this spaced out little jam about someone losing their shit and going on a killing spree to even remotely crack top 40 but for whatever reason by the grace of god these guys have become the breakout act of 2011.
You know even after the massive amount of radio play this song has been subjugated to it still has this kind of refreshingly strung out sound to it that’s still as warm and tripped out as the first time I heard it and thought Pumped was some radio edit. The sheer hypnotic nature of this little indie rock gem seemed to really creep into radio and just took over person after person and while I will admit that Mumford and Sons folk rock styling’s where the kick in the balls modern radio needed this song just more seems like a radio staple that’s less pretentious more accessible and think for that it really is one of the best tunes and my personal pick for brake out song of 2011.
Now as great as this song is your reading Sam’s Song Of the Day people and if you’ve been reading every day you know that there’s one particular artist that’s probably dominated more post then anyone else this year.
3. Cry Baby-Cee-Lo Green
AHHHHH yeah people it’s time to yet again write about the all mighty lady killer himself Cee-Lo, “MO Fakun Lady Killa,” Green and I’m guessing this choice is at best a bit confusing but let me explain myself here.
Ok now I’m going to have to say people that while, “Fuck You,” was not only a monumentally amazing number and the most gratifyingly successful number of the year I personally feel that while the song as a whole lacks what really is the finer points of the Lady Killer album which is the showcasing of how Cee-Lo is really the modern day sultan of soul, the man with the master plan to make all them panties drop, the undeniably most well crafted performer out there when it comes to taking that retro-grooved sound and making it sound like an instant classic and of all the songs off the masterpiece that is The Lady Killer I feel that this is the best released single in terms of giving the listener an idea of what’s to come on that album.
Although now that I’m sitting here listening to it for the sake of really being able to review it I’ve come to realize that over its sincerely soulful vocal performance and it’s slower pace it’s really one of the classiest get the hell over yourself tunes I’ve ever heard and in it’s smoother then smooth sound it’s hiding this mildly egocentric tale of how her broke the ex-lovers heart to a point where she’s now made him the bad guy in this situation which is both classy and awesome, but even an amusingly off beat video staring the all mighty Urkle couldn’t catapult this song to the heights of the next two tunes which to say the least was a decision I really had to think hard about.
2. Rolling in the Deep-Adele
Honestly amongst the heap of tunes that felt the desire to come out this year this one slowly but surely managed to chug it’s ever so powerfully soulful sound onto radio and just carved out a path of destruction that almost no one could match.
This song was a slow burner in a lot of ways because the first time I heard it I didn’t really quite understand what I was about to be completely overtaken by but this song grew and grew and then out of nowhere it just suddenly became this behemoth of a hit that everyone just couldn’t escape and didn’t really want to for that matter. This song is even now after so many rotations still this overwhelmingly huge sounding blast of misery that only someone who is both pissed off and vocally gifted could do because this song just starts off ever so simply with a bare boned guitar and Adele’s voice in a hollow room before then erupting in this huge almost tribal sound that she then belts out these god given bits of rage and power that just grab you from the heart strings and make you want to yell fuck you to that person that broke your heart this year.
Really this song is just one of many cuts on an album that really deserves all the credit as being the best of the year and as great as this song and it’s corresponding album are I just can’t call it number one even though every single best off 2011 list out there from Rolling Stone to VH1 would like to tell me there was just one song this year that blew my mind in ways I really couldn’t of ever figured it would and that would be….
1. Rope-Foo Fighters
Now if there was one song this year that I can say that not only made an impact on me that was both instantaneous and lasting it was this and not only did this song blow my damn mind but it finally made me realize just why these guys are constantly considered to be the best, yes ladies and gentlemen I have finally found the way of the foo.
As powerful as Adele’s voice is nothing beats the rush of power an electric guitar can bring and not only did they bring the rock they made my choice for the greatest song of 2011.
To be honesty I’ve always been on the fence about this band because as much as I dislike Dave Grohl as a person I’ve always felt that this band really just makes very catchy records that all grow old as soon as the radio decides to rotate them every five minutes but this song was different. From the first time I really heard the echoing intro I wasn’t sure what to expect but then out of nowhere I suddenly got blasted with this furiously steady stream of ever so heavy guitars before then being greeted with the familiar sound of Dave Grohl giving a very melodic verse before then erupting in a series of bouncing yelps before then singing this ever so larger then life Chorus that instantaneously made me have to go listen to this song another 150 times and buy the album.
No shit people this song alone made walk out and buy a copy of what was to be a surprisingly amazing album and even now after so many rotations just like the first time I ever heard this song I still can’t control my desire to jump up and scream this song as I feverously air guitar the fuck out of this very garage-rock influenced rocker that brought just the right amount of ass kicking rockers Alternative rock radio needed amongst the haze of electro-indie dominance and for that I have to give it credit as being my choice as the best song of 2011.
Well there you go people those are my picks for the 5 best songs of 2011 it really has been a bad ass year for music which is both a surprise and a pleasant change I can’t wait to go through yet another years batch of songs of the day hopefully covering some bad ass tunes before this predicted end of the world.
Thank you for reading this year here's to another year of shenanigans.
-Sam
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
WOO-HOO 1 year buddy :D
“Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me, Happy birthday Sam’s Song of the Day, happy birthday to me.”
Yes people I’ve done it one full year has passed since I started this wonderful little Blog of mine and to say the least it’s an accomplishment I feel some bit of pride for the fact that while I don’t have 365 post I’ve gotten a fuckload none-the-less and feel that I’ve greatly improved in my writing since the first post that one year ago.
Now rather than trying to come up with some grandiose thousand plus word filled article where I put some great piece of work under a microscope and analyze the hell out of it I’m going to instead write for you guy’s something very simple and kind of to the point.
I started this Blog because my buddy Verta one day read a post I had made on my facebook about the song, “Blow Up the Outside World,” where she exclaimed that I must start a blog. Now hearing some exclamation of satisfaction to something I’ve written took me back a bit because for the most part I felt that people just ignored my writings and that I wasn’t really ever likely to go past a few weeks, but time went on and the next thing I know I’d almost done this for a year so upon realizing that people actually could like the product I was posting I decided to give it a shot.
I will admit this does most of the time come off as a bit of a thing that the only real people reading are my close friends and occasionally my mother but the overall response has been positive, and as I near my 2nd year of actually writing these things up I’m going to take a second to sit back and bask in the accomplishment of keeping this bad boy consistently updated for a full year people so you know what why don’t we all sit back, relax, and enjoy this wonderful little celebration of today.
Yes people I’ve done it one full year has passed since I started this wonderful little Blog of mine and to say the least it’s an accomplishment I feel some bit of pride for the fact that while I don’t have 365 post I’ve gotten a fuckload none-the-less and feel that I’ve greatly improved in my writing since the first post that one year ago.
Now rather than trying to come up with some grandiose thousand plus word filled article where I put some great piece of work under a microscope and analyze the hell out of it I’m going to instead write for you guy’s something very simple and kind of to the point.
I started this Blog because my buddy Verta one day read a post I had made on my facebook about the song, “Blow Up the Outside World,” where she exclaimed that I must start a blog. Now hearing some exclamation of satisfaction to something I’ve written took me back a bit because for the most part I felt that people just ignored my writings and that I wasn’t really ever likely to go past a few weeks, but time went on and the next thing I know I’d almost done this for a year so upon realizing that people actually could like the product I was posting I decided to give it a shot.
I will admit this does most of the time come off as a bit of a thing that the only real people reading are my close friends and occasionally my mother but the overall response has been positive, and as I near my 2nd year of actually writing these things up I’m going to take a second to sit back and bask in the accomplishment of keeping this bad boy consistently updated for a full year people so you know what why don’t we all sit back, relax, and enjoy this wonderful little celebration of today.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
The Greatest Song Ever....
Fuck You-Cee-Lo Green
You know the world recently had to add another member to the infamous 27 club in the form of one Amy Winehouse, and really her influence will take time to notice but upon her death I came to some realization that along with her is most likely to come the death of the modern soul movement.
Modern Soul Movement I bet you’re probably thinking that I’m talking out my ass but let me take some time to explain what I mean by that. Whenever one Amy Winehouse hit it huge with her kind of retro-grooved old school inspired tunes I noticed that there was a but if a floodgate that had opened upon her reaching of the peak and all of a sudden the rise of the soul inspired throwback act came to be.After Amy we had artist like Duffy, The Noisettes, Fitz and the Tantrums, and of course Mr. Cee-Lo Greens most recent effort The Lady Killer. People weren’t afraid to sound like a time capsule to the 60’s and the music buying public weren’t afraid to embrace this trend and felt like actually giving these acts a try. The only issue in this movement before I get into things is that like the artist of the bygone 60’s most of these artist in question only really will end up being known for a single catchy tune that’ll in many ways represent the timelessness of certain genres but in many cases its’ ironic because it only further proves that history repeats itself.
Now after taking all of almost 250 words to describe just how influential of an artist one Amy Winehouse was would I be writing a recently released cut not done by her as being the greatest song ever? Well you see here as amazing as she was the only real way I could go as to explain her greatness is by writing about a song that came long after she established this formula and has probably yielded its most amazing result.
"Fuck You," it was the second coming for one Cee-Lo Green Crazy had gotten him out there but nobody was quite sure of who he really was or what he had to offer. It was an unusually spaced out cut that Rolling Stone named the greatest song of the decade and Gnarles Barkely as a group that left as fast as they came, but then during the summer of last year Cee-Lo comes out with this throwback jam and just comes back in ways that no one could ever really comprehend.
Here he was singing about the love that couldn’t be and making that painfully pissed off declaration that we all have from time to time upon being hurt by the one’s we loved, “Fuck You,” it’s a ballsy move there’s no way the mass public could accept something that profanity laden, that raunchy, that upfront and I really didn’t expect it to not only give Cee-Lo yet another top 10 smash hit, a slew of Grammy Nominations, and 15 more minutes in the spotlight but it brought my attention to an album that was more then, “Fuck You,” and a whole bunch of filler tracks it was the most finely crafted series of pop songs that showcase an entire range of an era many consider to be the best, and this song is the thing that brought all of this to the spot light.
Why is this the greatest song ever? Well it’s unapologetic, catchy, upfront, and instantly memorable there’s something in it the whole world can relate to and upon release the world not only did but it wholeheartedly took this man who many had thoughts time had come and brought forth some sense that talent matters again, and I don’t think any of this would have been possible if not for Amy Winehouse making it hip to be old school again.
You know the world recently had to add another member to the infamous 27 club in the form of one Amy Winehouse, and really her influence will take time to notice but upon her death I came to some realization that along with her is most likely to come the death of the modern soul movement.
Modern Soul Movement I bet you’re probably thinking that I’m talking out my ass but let me take some time to explain what I mean by that. Whenever one Amy Winehouse hit it huge with her kind of retro-grooved old school inspired tunes I noticed that there was a but if a floodgate that had opened upon her reaching of the peak and all of a sudden the rise of the soul inspired throwback act came to be.After Amy we had artist like Duffy, The Noisettes, Fitz and the Tantrums, and of course Mr. Cee-Lo Greens most recent effort The Lady Killer. People weren’t afraid to sound like a time capsule to the 60’s and the music buying public weren’t afraid to embrace this trend and felt like actually giving these acts a try. The only issue in this movement before I get into things is that like the artist of the bygone 60’s most of these artist in question only really will end up being known for a single catchy tune that’ll in many ways represent the timelessness of certain genres but in many cases its’ ironic because it only further proves that history repeats itself.
Now after taking all of almost 250 words to describe just how influential of an artist one Amy Winehouse was would I be writing a recently released cut not done by her as being the greatest song ever? Well you see here as amazing as she was the only real way I could go as to explain her greatness is by writing about a song that came long after she established this formula and has probably yielded its most amazing result.
"Fuck You," it was the second coming for one Cee-Lo Green Crazy had gotten him out there but nobody was quite sure of who he really was or what he had to offer. It was an unusually spaced out cut that Rolling Stone named the greatest song of the decade and Gnarles Barkely as a group that left as fast as they came, but then during the summer of last year Cee-Lo comes out with this throwback jam and just comes back in ways that no one could ever really comprehend.
Here he was singing about the love that couldn’t be and making that painfully pissed off declaration that we all have from time to time upon being hurt by the one’s we loved, “Fuck You,” it’s a ballsy move there’s no way the mass public could accept something that profanity laden, that raunchy, that upfront and I really didn’t expect it to not only give Cee-Lo yet another top 10 smash hit, a slew of Grammy Nominations, and 15 more minutes in the spotlight but it brought my attention to an album that was more then, “Fuck You,” and a whole bunch of filler tracks it was the most finely crafted series of pop songs that showcase an entire range of an era many consider to be the best, and this song is the thing that brought all of this to the spot light.
Why is this the greatest song ever? Well it’s unapologetic, catchy, upfront, and instantly memorable there’s something in it the whole world can relate to and upon release the world not only did but it wholeheartedly took this man who many had thoughts time had come and brought forth some sense that talent matters again, and I don’t think any of this would have been possible if not for Amy Winehouse making it hip to be old school again.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
The Greatest Song EVER!!!
What a touchy subject my friends, what is the greatest song ever made? We all have our own opinions as to what we would consider to be the best and we all have a different song, but you know what there’s a certain set of tunes that if you were to ask a group of people as being universally known for being great then we’d have the starting of a segment I stole from another website that I’ll say I don’t remember the name of.
So here I present to thee an ongoing segment that I’m calling, “The Greatest Song Ever…” and the premise is simple I write about the most universally or at least what I see as being the most universally accepted tunes that one would consider the best, and it’s as simple as that people.
So this being a new segment let's start this bastard out with the biggest fish in the sea....
Billie Jean-Michael Jackson
He’s known far and wide as the king of pop for a reason people. It wasn’t that he could dance, it wasn’t that he could entertain, and it wasn’t even that he made thriller it was the songs he did that made Mr. Jackson the most successful artist in the world people and if there was a song that I would have to say was his crown masterpiece it would be this one.
“Billie Jean is Not my Lover, She’s just a girl who claims that I am the one, but the kid is not my son,” what a morbid line for one of the biggest hits of his massive career, it’s a song about betrayal, it’s dark, moody, and unlike anything you could possibly expect from the same man who was partly responsible for songs like Don’t Stop till you get enough, Ben, ABC, and I’ll be there it’s really an example of what happens when an artist tries to step out of their boundaries and perform a song that is completely out of character and it’s an example of that artist completely taking over and showcasing that they’re here and they’ve accomplished just what they set out to do showcase that they are in fact someone to pay attention to.
Really, from its steady synth intro you know you’re in for something different and whenever you hear Michael deliver that opening line there’s a sense of maturity in his delivery that no other song he was able to do afterwards could exactly showcase. Its’ a straightforward number there’s no theatrics to it, it’s video is as simple as he could make it, and the songs a masterpiece and really the best thing Jackson ever did in his mighty career and the only shame is that there doesn’t exist a recording of him singing it with nothing more than an acoustic guitar backing him up because I’d kill to just get one listen to a pure vocal track just to hear the intensity that this man had in his voice on this masterpiece of pop music.
So here I present to thee an ongoing segment that I’m calling, “The Greatest Song Ever…” and the premise is simple I write about the most universally or at least what I see as being the most universally accepted tunes that one would consider the best, and it’s as simple as that people.
So this being a new segment let's start this bastard out with the biggest fish in the sea....
Billie Jean-Michael Jackson
He’s known far and wide as the king of pop for a reason people. It wasn’t that he could dance, it wasn’t that he could entertain, and it wasn’t even that he made thriller it was the songs he did that made Mr. Jackson the most successful artist in the world people and if there was a song that I would have to say was his crown masterpiece it would be this one.
“Billie Jean is Not my Lover, She’s just a girl who claims that I am the one, but the kid is not my son,” what a morbid line for one of the biggest hits of his massive career, it’s a song about betrayal, it’s dark, moody, and unlike anything you could possibly expect from the same man who was partly responsible for songs like Don’t Stop till you get enough, Ben, ABC, and I’ll be there it’s really an example of what happens when an artist tries to step out of their boundaries and perform a song that is completely out of character and it’s an example of that artist completely taking over and showcasing that they’re here and they’ve accomplished just what they set out to do showcase that they are in fact someone to pay attention to.
Really, from its steady synth intro you know you’re in for something different and whenever you hear Michael deliver that opening line there’s a sense of maturity in his delivery that no other song he was able to do afterwards could exactly showcase. Its’ a straightforward number there’s no theatrics to it, it’s video is as simple as he could make it, and the songs a masterpiece and really the best thing Jackson ever did in his mighty career and the only shame is that there doesn’t exist a recording of him singing it with nothing more than an acoustic guitar backing him up because I’d kill to just get one listen to a pure vocal track just to hear the intensity that this man had in his voice on this masterpiece of pop music.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Sams Song of the Day 200th Post Spectacular!!
(Now let me take a second to make note that the reason this is 2 days late is because life likes to force me to miss these things but that's besides the point)
Holy damn people I just made a realization that today after a little over 9 months of doing these damn things is my 200th post!! Now of course I’m aware that 200 isn’t really anything when you think about it but it seems special enough for me to actually make an attempt at having some fun here. So for today as late as it is I’m going to rather than posting a song of the day I’ve decided to instead to a post the kind of bands or songs that bring that special feeling to us all.
Now 200 post not being so special I decided to enlist my old buddy in crime and past contributor to this fine Blog of Mine one Dyllan Adams to help by writing about what I’m going to call your special song.
Now as cheesy as that sounds there’s a time in all of our life when we hear a song and for whatever reason it sticks with us, and for whatever reason that song always puts us in that special place. Now I being a bit of a square had decided to say fuck it and write about a song that makes life suck a little less, so what’s the criteria you might ask? Well a special song is as it sounds that song that gives us all that warm feeling of worth, that song that brings us to a time when life of course sucked a little less, the song that started this terrible addiction we have to any specific artist or band, and most importantly a song we feel our own. As I said this is going to be cheesy.
Now you see here Dyllan’s going to write about his favorite band, and since I’ve already covered that in my wonderful little 30 Day song Challenge and just about every song of theirs I’ve written about I’m going to instead write about a song that is very special to me, now I’m going to let you guys read his post while I write about the song I find to be noteworthy enough to write about in explicit detail so Dyllan here’s the floor:
I know, I suck.
We break bounds every day and don't know what people will say when we throw a bone into the boulevard that belongs to dogs. Portishead is one of those bands that make madness look like a work of art, you see the world (and the universe) with all its beauty and decayed diseased filth look like home sweet home. Western eyes does just that, I feel dead and beat to the point where no one can tell the starting point between me and the concrete. But Beth Gibbons draws me back like a siren does to sailors at sea. But let’s be honest, we all want to swim along them in oblivion. We want to lay back and revel in the waste of our own human filth and sin. Because “ i feel so cold, all hookers and gin. Just look at the mess we’re in” speaks it all. So sit back, relax and light up son. Because the world is gonna end with or without you
-Dyllan Adams
Trippy stuff My good friend Trippy Stuff it’s glad to see you’ve yet to lose your integrity as a human being. Now here are my thoughts:
I Do-Placebo
You know after writing about so many different songs in that Thirty day Song Challenge, and more recently having a whole mess of things on my mind I’ve made a realization that I don’t much care to talk about myself on here. Now there’s plenty of reasons behind that mostly the one’s involving me not wanting the whole world to be open to the various faults I possess, and also because I just frankly like to keep my shit to myself, but really there has been something on my mind these days and that would be that very special relationship we all have with that person we like to think of as our own.
Now this kind of relates about as much to my love of certain bands as it does the people I feel to be involved with, and here’s the thing people while I try my damndest to not associate people with bands, events, or songs because of some irrational fear that if things don’t work out then those bands, songs, and events shall forever be ruined I don’t often associate these specific artist, band, song, and such to these things. To be forever ruined by that individual is really something that I strongly dislike, and while I’ve dealt with a couple of losses here and there the one band that’s managed to survive a near fatal brush with this would happen to be Placebo.
Now before I get into this whole situation I’m just going to say that I’m not naming names and things aren’t really going to be talked about in explicit detail because for the most part I’m looking to discuss the band in question and more importantly why this particular song feels so damn special to me.
Placebo as I’ve written about before, are a band I heard about from a friend and fell in love with a single song. Now the thing about this band that no matter what my mental state is, they’ll always remind me of the only girl I have ever said, “I love you Too,” and for the longest time I did not like that because of course as so often is the case when we don’t like something, things didn’t quite work out for us, and because of that I almost stopped liking this band, but luckily enough I eventually came to acceptance with that whole situation and can now safely listen to this band without feeling like hell.
Now by this point I’m guessing you’re all wondering what in the holy hell this damn song has to do with any of that.
You see here if there was ever a song that I could best describe just what love felt like for me it’d be this one. For those who are actually listening to the song as your reading this you are probably thinking, “What the fuck?” and honestly I couldn’t blame you because I often think the same thing but let me attempt to explain it all. Whenever I felt that special feeling of actually caring for someone beyond the hey your cool let’s hang out stage it was a lot like this song a nervous yet exciting tale of wanting to be with that person that’s completely taken over your entire thought process, you want to constantly be with them, learn their little quirks, and even to an extent know what it’s like to be them. You have this feeling of being on top of the world and your looking down on the creation of a blooming relationship that you hope maybe could end in your own bitter quest of being alone to end vanishing. You want to say, “I Do,” just like the chorus and yes I felt that way at one time not to a point of wanting to marry the person but I wanted them and to be with them.
Now by some point in the various situations where I’ve been listening to my MP3 player and just letting the songs dictate my thoughts for whatever reason no matter what this song will always and forever reminds me of that person in question, and for the longest time I wasn’t too happy with that, but more recently as I’ve frankly grown the hell up and learned to deal with it all I have come to accept it and have found myself feeling many a butterfly in my stomach whenever I hear it come on my MP3 Player and honestly if that isn’t special then I don’t know what is.
There ya go people, what a special post about those special little songs that take us all back to a time and a place where we all love to go and can only really do so by listening to the music we love, thanks for reading these 200 post you crazy bastards let’s hope we can go for another 200.
-Sam’s Song of the Day
Holy damn people I just made a realization that today after a little over 9 months of doing these damn things is my 200th post!! Now of course I’m aware that 200 isn’t really anything when you think about it but it seems special enough for me to actually make an attempt at having some fun here. So for today as late as it is I’m going to rather than posting a song of the day I’ve decided to instead to a post the kind of bands or songs that bring that special feeling to us all.
Now 200 post not being so special I decided to enlist my old buddy in crime and past contributor to this fine Blog of Mine one Dyllan Adams to help by writing about what I’m going to call your special song.
Now as cheesy as that sounds there’s a time in all of our life when we hear a song and for whatever reason it sticks with us, and for whatever reason that song always puts us in that special place. Now I being a bit of a square had decided to say fuck it and write about a song that makes life suck a little less, so what’s the criteria you might ask? Well a special song is as it sounds that song that gives us all that warm feeling of worth, that song that brings us to a time when life of course sucked a little less, the song that started this terrible addiction we have to any specific artist or band, and most importantly a song we feel our own. As I said this is going to be cheesy.
Now you see here Dyllan’s going to write about his favorite band, and since I’ve already covered that in my wonderful little 30 Day song Challenge and just about every song of theirs I’ve written about I’m going to instead write about a song that is very special to me, now I’m going to let you guys read his post while I write about the song I find to be noteworthy enough to write about in explicit detail so Dyllan here’s the floor:
I know, I suck.
We break bounds every day and don't know what people will say when we throw a bone into the boulevard that belongs to dogs. Portishead is one of those bands that make madness look like a work of art, you see the world (and the universe) with all its beauty and decayed diseased filth look like home sweet home. Western eyes does just that, I feel dead and beat to the point where no one can tell the starting point between me and the concrete. But Beth Gibbons draws me back like a siren does to sailors at sea. But let’s be honest, we all want to swim along them in oblivion. We want to lay back and revel in the waste of our own human filth and sin. Because “ i feel so cold, all hookers and gin. Just look at the mess we’re in” speaks it all. So sit back, relax and light up son. Because the world is gonna end with or without you
-Dyllan Adams
Trippy stuff My good friend Trippy Stuff it’s glad to see you’ve yet to lose your integrity as a human being. Now here are my thoughts:
I Do-Placebo
You know after writing about so many different songs in that Thirty day Song Challenge, and more recently having a whole mess of things on my mind I’ve made a realization that I don’t much care to talk about myself on here. Now there’s plenty of reasons behind that mostly the one’s involving me not wanting the whole world to be open to the various faults I possess, and also because I just frankly like to keep my shit to myself, but really there has been something on my mind these days and that would be that very special relationship we all have with that person we like to think of as our own.
Now this kind of relates about as much to my love of certain bands as it does the people I feel to be involved with, and here’s the thing people while I try my damndest to not associate people with bands, events, or songs because of some irrational fear that if things don’t work out then those bands, songs, and events shall forever be ruined I don’t often associate these specific artist, band, song, and such to these things. To be forever ruined by that individual is really something that I strongly dislike, and while I’ve dealt with a couple of losses here and there the one band that’s managed to survive a near fatal brush with this would happen to be Placebo.
Now before I get into this whole situation I’m just going to say that I’m not naming names and things aren’t really going to be talked about in explicit detail because for the most part I’m looking to discuss the band in question and more importantly why this particular song feels so damn special to me.
Placebo as I’ve written about before, are a band I heard about from a friend and fell in love with a single song. Now the thing about this band that no matter what my mental state is, they’ll always remind me of the only girl I have ever said, “I love you Too,” and for the longest time I did not like that because of course as so often is the case when we don’t like something, things didn’t quite work out for us, and because of that I almost stopped liking this band, but luckily enough I eventually came to acceptance with that whole situation and can now safely listen to this band without feeling like hell.
Now by this point I’m guessing you’re all wondering what in the holy hell this damn song has to do with any of that.
You see here if there was ever a song that I could best describe just what love felt like for me it’d be this one. For those who are actually listening to the song as your reading this you are probably thinking, “What the fuck?” and honestly I couldn’t blame you because I often think the same thing but let me attempt to explain it all. Whenever I felt that special feeling of actually caring for someone beyond the hey your cool let’s hang out stage it was a lot like this song a nervous yet exciting tale of wanting to be with that person that’s completely taken over your entire thought process, you want to constantly be with them, learn their little quirks, and even to an extent know what it’s like to be them. You have this feeling of being on top of the world and your looking down on the creation of a blooming relationship that you hope maybe could end in your own bitter quest of being alone to end vanishing. You want to say, “I Do,” just like the chorus and yes I felt that way at one time not to a point of wanting to marry the person but I wanted them and to be with them.
Now by some point in the various situations where I’ve been listening to my MP3 player and just letting the songs dictate my thoughts for whatever reason no matter what this song will always and forever reminds me of that person in question, and for the longest time I wasn’t too happy with that, but more recently as I’ve frankly grown the hell up and learned to deal with it all I have come to accept it and have found myself feeling many a butterfly in my stomach whenever I hear it come on my MP3 Player and honestly if that isn’t special then I don’t know what is.
There ya go people, what a special post about those special little songs that take us all back to a time and a place where we all love to go and can only really do so by listening to the music we love, thanks for reading these 200 post you crazy bastards let’s hope we can go for another 200.
-Sam’s Song of the Day
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Explinations into what the hell this thing is & the inaugural song of ze day
Explain your stance:
Well great world of the web, what is this we have here but yet another aspiring journalist making some attempts to put forth my randomn thoughts on the world involving song's that like many a famous music blog, magazine, and television program, I shall make my attempts to influence the few readers crazy enough to read this, to listen to a bunch of songs that they would normally not even have an idea that even existed in the first place, and unlike these respected sites these post are likely to have a lot more spelling errors and run on sentences. Yeah now a bit of backstory to make this more clear, for you all see here since February 8th I've been semi-regularly posting on the Smashing Pumpkins Forums a song of the day, it really started with no intention other then because i could so for that reason alone I fealt it more then reasonable to do so and I have. Now what dose that have to do with me posting here, am I such an egocentric person that I feel my thoughts on various song's, artist, and various other randomn topics that I discuss using words I don't completly understand or know how to spell have to do with me using this site to further copy and paste the same thing that I proceed to post on my facebook too, well upon request of many a friend I've decided to give this the ol' college try and shall see if this can pick up some steam, or at the very least deal with some randomn asshole who feels the desire to point out the various gramatical errors I am likely to make and use them to criticize me in various way's to which my response will most likely amount to telling them to go eat a dick.
Yeah if you can't tell now I am a person with one long train of thoughts that is actually making some attempt at making a name for myself, and with said name I shall attempt to also bring to light song's that I feel are actually worth a listen in a more public realm, so now with out further bull shitting I present to thee the inaugural song of the day already in progress(note after every post I put a link to listen to said song just incase you are like many a person on the internet too lazy to realize that yourself):
September 29, 2010
ChamPain-Cee-Lo Green
Ah Cee-Lo,"Lady Killa,"Green, You are the man. Ah yeah for some reason I've been in a very musical mood today, and when I get into these fits I listen to alot of soulfull song's and upon getting into Mr. Green I proceeded to go and download his stray bullets mixtape, and this song if any song is one of the few from that tape that has to be one of the best.. I don't see as to why it's not a massive hit but it's really an amazing song and the fact that nobody's seem to have heard it is just pissing me off because this song is freakin' GREAT!!!!!! Seriously Cee-Lo is one of the most interesting vocalist in the last couple of years and really this song is just one of the many examples of how he is just how he is so soulfull to a point of making everyone else look like they are nothing, I mean he's like the modern day Marvin Gaye and yes I compared him to the all mighty godfather of soul and the origional lady killer himself, because he's the only person with a voice that could even compare and to those who doubt me listen and be amazed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lNlzkx8gOg
Well great world of the web, what is this we have here but yet another aspiring journalist making some attempts to put forth my randomn thoughts on the world involving song's that like many a famous music blog, magazine, and television program, I shall make my attempts to influence the few readers crazy enough to read this, to listen to a bunch of songs that they would normally not even have an idea that even existed in the first place, and unlike these respected sites these post are likely to have a lot more spelling errors and run on sentences. Yeah now a bit of backstory to make this more clear, for you all see here since February 8th I've been semi-regularly posting on the Smashing Pumpkins Forums a song of the day, it really started with no intention other then because i could so for that reason alone I fealt it more then reasonable to do so and I have. Now what dose that have to do with me posting here, am I such an egocentric person that I feel my thoughts on various song's, artist, and various other randomn topics that I discuss using words I don't completly understand or know how to spell have to do with me using this site to further copy and paste the same thing that I proceed to post on my facebook too, well upon request of many a friend I've decided to give this the ol' college try and shall see if this can pick up some steam, or at the very least deal with some randomn asshole who feels the desire to point out the various gramatical errors I am likely to make and use them to criticize me in various way's to which my response will most likely amount to telling them to go eat a dick.
Yeah if you can't tell now I am a person with one long train of thoughts that is actually making some attempt at making a name for myself, and with said name I shall attempt to also bring to light song's that I feel are actually worth a listen in a more public realm, so now with out further bull shitting I present to thee the inaugural song of the day already in progress(note after every post I put a link to listen to said song just incase you are like many a person on the internet too lazy to realize that yourself):
September 29, 2010
ChamPain-Cee-Lo Green
Ah Cee-Lo,"Lady Killa,"Green, You are the man. Ah yeah for some reason I've been in a very musical mood today, and when I get into these fits I listen to alot of soulfull song's and upon getting into Mr. Green I proceeded to go and download his stray bullets mixtape, and this song if any song is one of the few from that tape that has to be one of the best.. I don't see as to why it's not a massive hit but it's really an amazing song and the fact that nobody's seem to have heard it is just pissing me off because this song is freakin' GREAT!!!!!! Seriously Cee-Lo is one of the most interesting vocalist in the last couple of years and really this song is just one of the many examples of how he is just how he is so soulfull to a point of making everyone else look like they are nothing, I mean he's like the modern day Marvin Gaye and yes I compared him to the all mighty godfather of soul and the origional lady killer himself, because he's the only person with a voice that could even compare and to those who doubt me listen and be amazed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lNlzkx8gOg
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