That Music Thing

Bon Jovi – What Do You Got Lyrics:

Everybody wants something, just a little more

We’re makin a living, and what we’re livin for

A rich man or a poor man, a pawn or a king

You can live on the street, you can rule the whole world

But you don’t mean one damn thing

What do you got, if you aint got love

Whatever you got, it just aint enough

Youre walkin the road, but youre goin no where

Youre tryin to find your way home, but there’s no one there

Who do you hold, in the dark of night

You wanna give up, but it’s worth the fight

You have all the things, that you’ve been dreamin’ of

If you ain’t got someone, you’re afraid to lose

Everybody needs just one, someone… to tell them the truth

Maybe i’m a dreamer, but I still believe

I believe in hope, I believe the change can get us off our knees

Chorus

If you ain’t got love, its all just keeping score

If you ain’t got love, what the hell we doing it for

I don’t wanna have to talk about it,

How many songs you gotta sing about it

How long you gonna live without it

Why does some somewhere have to doubt it,

Someday you’ll figure it out

Solo

Chorus x2

If you ain’t got love, its all just keeping score

If you ain’t got love, what the hell we doin’ it for

Woahhh, I ain’t got, if you ain’t got

What do you got if you ain’t got love

What do you got if you ain’t got love

Grammys are just around the corner on Feb.13 2011.

Dr. Dre’s first grammy stage performace joining Eminem also Bob Dylan to perform with Mumford & Sons.

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Yesterday Ronnie James Dio passed away. Although I’m not a big heavy metal fan one of my first albums was Black Sabbath’s first. Shortly after that they fired Ozzy & picked up Ronnie James Dio. One of the great singers of metal, the “inventor” of the rocknroll hand sign, and an icon of the genre. AND from what i’ve read – a really nice guy. I’ve seen a few interviews & he seemed articulate and soft spoken. For a guy who could blow like he could, it seemed incongruous. So we say goodbye to a legend. May his music live one.

As much as I keep trying to like the Grammy show i just can’t. I get bored (except for the fashion), irritated at the emphasis on one genre (lately hip/hop, rap or the new celine dions), the complete ignorance and old deciders who think they know what’s going on, and just how long it is. First, the good stuff. Pink’s performance was terrific, amazing, and thank god also not lipsynched. As she said “no excuses anymore”. suspended overhead in a fabric sling, drenched in water, spinning in circles she KILLED IT!!!! I did like Beyonce’s performance a lot but after Pink and then the talking, i was gone. Back and forth between that and some other show until they lost me completely. I saw 10 seconds of Bon Jovi (really?) and that was it. Lucky for me the real fun part of the show was repeated on ETV monday – the red carpet and the fashion police. Seacrest needs to step up his game BUT the clothes! wonderful. The Grammys don’t seem to be about the music – for a music lover they are a disappointing night. For a closet fashionista, i loved it.

well. Let’s talk cd’s and the dying nature of ‘concept’ albums or long listening music. not too much around. I just picked up the newest Alice in Chains which seems to have an overall thought to it. I don’t want to analyze what Cantrell & Co. are doing but just the idea that someone is putting out something more than a bunch of singles for the radio. I used to listen to Camp Freddy radio on Indie 103 from LA with Dave Navarro and Billy Morrison. They talked quite a bit about their influences and Tommy by The Who was a big one for Navarro. It’s such a seminal work from a band who shaped those years musically. Much of Pink Floyds work is thematic (about Syd Barrett). Lately i’ve read some interviews and information by the Beatles regarding St. Pepper – one album you’d think WAS themed really wasn’t. I’d love to hear a fully expressed concept work from some current band – take that Nickelback!!! In the meantime, i’ll put on Dark Side or The Wall, sit my butt on the couch and let the music wash over me. not distracted by dishes, cleaning or conversation. listen to music as it was meant to be. not background – in the foreground. Hopefully I’ll fall in love with it all over again. At the very least maybe I’ll relax for a change.
Do you have any bands you’ve heard about recently that have pulled off the concept album? let me know – i’d love to check it out.

huh.  I don’t think that music, being the subjective experience that it is, or bands can really be ‘categorized’ other than in a very general fashion.  Rock, pop, jazz, etc ok.  but nu-metal? punk-pop? grunge rock vs. industrial?  post-modern-punk-new wave???  emo??  To me, you either like it or you don’t and it doesn’t really matter what ‘category’ it might fall in to.  I got the opportunity to listen to some really hard core ‘thrash’ metal of bands that existed in the 70′s including a 1970 cut from Iron Maiden & a couple from Flying Hat Band (an English band that ruled along side Judas Priest).  I”m not a fan of just screaming or of just pounding for the sake of the decibels.  I have to say tho’, it was a great reminder that some loud rambunctious music goes back before Korn or Slipknot.   

Recently on a website of a famous rock magazine, there was an article about Kings of Leon.  Some fan posts were wondering what Molly’s Chamers meant (Kings of Leon) – vagina or her bedroom.   Are you kidding me?  It really matters?  If you want it to be Molly’s bedroom, then it’s her bedroom.  If you want it to be her vagina, then it’s her vagina.  Guess what-  you’re both right!   Guess what -  you can interpret it whatever way you choose.  If it moves you, music has succeeded.  If it doesn’t move you, it may move someone else.  Guess what -  that’s perfect.  It’s the way it should be. 

Sometimes i want to crank Korn up to 11 – sometimes i want to listen to bach.  Sometimes – not often but sometimes – i want to listen to KDWB.  I hope that people back off the judgement.  I cannot listen to Fall Out Boy but I will defend your right to listen to that drivel.  I will make fun of you and hassle you to get therapy, BUT I will defend your right to listen to what YOU like. 

So here’s what I’m hooked on right now.

Seether – Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces

Kings of Leon Youth and Young Manhood

Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA

Fat Boy Slim – weapon of choice

The Chemical Brothers 1993 – 2003

so what are you listening to?