5...4...3...2...1...Happy New Year, Everyone!! What? What's that you say? It's January 28th already? I suck at keeping up my blog? Yeah, you're right. My b. I have just been extremely busy with life things especially now that the nice people at Comcast put all five seasons of Dexter On Demand, not to mention I work out twice a week now. To boot, majority of the music I have heard as of late has been crap. I don't know what the shit that is about but I'm not happy and I'm getting bored. Not that my blog is the most hip, "mad cool," up-to-date, I-know-bands-that-don't-even-exist-yet type blog, but only two of the three songs I am addicted to/would like to inject into my bloodstream right now are kind of new. The third is older than me and that's really old cause I just turned twenty-eight. (If you would like to send me a birthday present, I wouldn't mind owning a Mariah Carey album on vinyl. I don't know if that's even possible.)
Alright, enough chit chat. Let's do this. My three songs that I can't stop listening to this week arrrrreeeeeeee (drumroll please):
I have been literally begging the music gods for a song that grabbed my heart and then threw it on the ground and then ran over it with a trailer tractor just so I could play it again when it was all finished. In a less dramatic description, just a song that made me feel something. I found that song and it's "Someone Like You." I can not put into words what this song does to me. It's almost too good to explain. All you need are your ears and heart for this song. Adele's vocal performance is basically flawless. You're in for chills all over your arms and if songs hit you like they do me, maybe a tear. The link I have above is a video of her performing this song in her home. No editing. No producing. No background vocals. Impressive. I suggest listening to this and her studio album version because she switches it up. Oh yeah, this song is off of her new, sophomore album 21 which I strongly urge you to buy. So far, one of my favorite albums of 2011.
I always play a fun game with myself to see how fast I can name a song that comes on. It's fun because I always win and even when I don't win, I win. It keeps me on my toes. Without fail, every time this song starts out, I'm thinking... David Bowie? The Beatles? But, no. Smith Westerns. It's just so sixties sounding. I can't help it. This indie rock band is from Chicago and I'm pretty sure all three band members were born in the 90's. Sounds like someone has been influenced by Mom and Dad's music which is more than fine with me if they keep making tremendously melodic tunes like this. What else you got, Smith Westerns?
I was -12 years old when this song came out. That doesn't really mean anything, I was just simply pointing that fact out. Now that we have that out of the way, I friggin' love this song. With at least 92 recorded cover versions, "Jealous Guy" is the most commonly covered song. I didn't know that until I wikipedia'ed it to find out what year it was released. Cool though, huh? I guess it makes sense that so many people would want to cover it. It is so human and relatable. I admire John Lennon's ability to completely let go and be utterly honest throughout these four minutes. More notable, to me anyway, are Lennon's choice of lyrics for this song. All so simple. All vocabulary that I have access to yet, I could never write anything so beautiful. Someone should tell this guy he's got some real talent.
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