| Musical musing |
[May. 25th, 2007|07:12 am] |
This morning (from about 4:45am) was spent listening to music and thinking on it, and I really don't have any real revelations, though I do think that Paul Simon is, if it is possible, under-rated as a lyricist. Boy, are the lyrics on "Bookends" very good from beginning to end.
But a revelation of sorts, though not self-generated, alas, came when I stumbled upon the video for "Set the Fire to the Third Bar" discussed here earlier by Snow Patrol and Martha Wainwright. For reasons having to do with falsetto voices, I assumed Martha Wainwright would be, perhaps, cute. In fact she is not cute - she is hot. That is interesting in my opinion.
Also, she is either _very_ tall, which is to say slightly taller than I am, or there is some interesting camera trickery going on because Gary whatever from Snow Patrol is, according to Wikipedia, at least, 6' 4" and she comes up above his chin.
Edited later to add. More musical reasearch done. I kinda like Rufus more now that I've listened to more of his songs. His "Across the Universe" cover is fantastic*; better than the Fiona Apple one; and he has decent song-writing skills. We shall see how this musical detour goes . . .
* If you know a fair amount about music, which is about where I am, then you will particularly like the Gibson Les Paul jangly sound used on the second and third verses. That it is fairly subtle is, in itself, a sort of genius. I guess it is sort of music for people that _really_ like music, or that _really_ liked that song very much. |
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