Monday, January 28, 2013

Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin's fourth album is a killer album! John Bonham's drumming is so powerful and really drives most of the songs on the album in my opinion, especially on "When the Levee Breaks." Then Jimmy Page does some really great work on "Stairway to Heaven" with his perfectly done solo. I think that they are the two stand outs of the album, but John Paul Jones and Robert Plant still sounded amazing. Near the end of the Stairway to Heaven solo, John Bonham does a really crazy fill that just blows my mind every time I hear it. Next time you listen to Stairway to Heaven listen for that drum fill. It will do no more than thoroughly impress you!

Thursday, January 17, 2013

I Found This

Schubert's Serenade is possibly the most beautiful song I have ever heard! I was searching the depths of YouTube for a song I have no idea what to call. It sounds like a song that would be played for a silent film or in some kind of old saloon. Instead of finding that song I ran across this masterpiece! I will try to describe it for you. It's like one of those angels that comes down from the heavens playing a harp, only the angel is playing a every single instrument in the orchestra.
I will show you a piano arrangement from a pony-tailed man with glasses and a sweet thin mustache.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Bridge Over Troubled Water is, in my opinion, the greatest Simon and Garfunkel album simply because I think the songs are consistently good. There are maybe three songs that I don't really care for, but other than those I love the album. The very first song is an amazing one and it's also my favorite too. That song just gives me chills and any song that can do that is automatically my favorite! Another one that I REALLY enjoy is Cecilia. I love all the percussion used in it, the guitar even serves as a drum in the beginning. The one problem I have with Cecilia is that it reminds me of that Fun. song called Some Nights. I hate that song for sounding so similar to it. It sounds like they took Cecilia and made a super simple version that annoys me.
I like Simon & Garfunkel.
I don't like Fun.. I have to put two periods after Fun..

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

I used to HATE this guy

One person who I used to hate with a burning passion is Scott Stapp, the lead singer of Creed. When I didn't know much about him I just hated how fake his voice sounds, but now that I know that he was adopted by a very religious father that was a minister. Apparently he would make Scott recite passages from the bible as punishment. And of course I would hate a philanthropist. I had no idea that he founded the With Arms Wide Open foundation that helps out children that are underprivileged. He has been really stupid in his life! He was arrested for domestic abuse, suspected intoxication and reckless driving. He even has a freakin sex tape! He has attempted suicide twice. I don't know whats wrong with this guy, but I feel really bad now.

Charles Monroe

I LOVE Marilyn Manson! Not so much how he presents himself but what he wants to get across to the people listening to and watching himself. He just wants to let people know that art is not about what other people think. It is strictly about what you, the artist thinks. I also enjoy freaking people out by putting his cover of "This is Halloween" on from The Nightmare Before Christmas. Another reason why he is a little scary is that he mixed Marilyn Monroe's first name with the convict Charles Manson's last name. I don't know why he did it though.



Check out that eye!