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Music Notes

A blog, generally about music, usually for projects hosted by Jeff

. I may also write about the 48-Hour Media Prompt Challenge if I don't feel like writing a story or poem inspired by the given song. Other bits of poetry or different topics of discussion might end up here as well.

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DLSpiritwriter☯️🦋🌳

about 15 hours ago
In response to "Beautiful Day, by U2"

Very intense and thanks for sharing your insights. It is a very good song and more so now...
Glad y'all made it out safely 🙂.

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Ms. TerrifyingTuber

Oct 15, 2024 at 12:09pm
In response to "500 Miles (I'm Gonna Be) (ID cover)"

That was an amazing performance. Dan certainly has a sense of showmanship..

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QPdoll

Oct 12, 2024 at 8:00am
In response to "I Heard It Through the Grapevine (CCR)"

I've only known the Marvin Gaye version. I have to say that CCR did it justice. The drums and that bass. So cool.

Excellent choice!

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♥HOOves♥

Oct 12, 2024 at 7:45am
In response to "I Heard It Through the Grapevine (CCR)"

Great song choice! There is also a version with Gladys Knight and the Pips that may or may not have been the first one. It was the first one that I heard.

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Dave Ryan

Oct 11, 2024 at 8:19am
In response to "If I Had a Hammer"

Puff the Magic Dragon is a great song for traumatising the kids. There's nothing like a happy ending, and that one is definitely nothing like a happy ending.

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QPdoll

Oct 10, 2024 at 7:57am
In response to "Fast Car (Jonas Blue cover)"

This is great! I love this song and have heard a couple of different versions, but I've never heard this one. Thank you for sharing.

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♥HOOves♥

Oct 9, 2024 at 9:07am
In response to "Fortunate Son"

Love Centerfield and Have You Ever Seen the Rain, also!

So many wonderful songs!

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♥HOOves♥

Oct 8, 2024 at 9:00am
In response to "I Won't Back Down"

Great song choice!

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QPdoll

Oct 8, 2024 at 6:15am
In response to "I Won't Back Down"

I like Tom Petty, too. My favorite song is Mary Jane's Last Dance. However, I like the message of I Won't Back Down. It's a fine choice.

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tracker

Oct 7, 2024 at 12:23pm
In response to "Creeque Alley"

This is when I like AI. The song is a story about when the group was formed. It was released when I had first started college. Where? In California! Good choice of song.

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February 23, 2025 at 8:32am

#1084265

Vertigo, by U2

My next track is Vertigo, from the 2004 U2 album How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. It's a fun song for me because I don't listen to much of the old-fashioned "noisy rock" kind of stuff. Steven groans when I mention it, but hey. It's my playlist, not his

Sound:
Despite having raucous guitar riffs which might almost be called grungy, Bono's voice here is anything but. He doesn't scream and yell with exaggerated angst like grunge/emo artists usually do, which makes Vertigo a marvelously tolerable song for me to listen to.

Theme:
I can actually identify with what I think Bono's trying to say here. He's describing the dizzying experience of having to perform in an extremely noisy, dark, grubby, crowded, indecent environment, and clinging to whatever kind of faith he feels in his heart to keep his head straight amidst the insanity.

As a person with sensory sensitivities, I'm easily distracted, overwhelmed and swept away by noisy environments, especially when there's music involved. Walmart on a busy day can make me go totally haywire…

On a side note, "vertigo," the actual medical condition, is connected to the inner ear and relates to how we process sound. Speculation remains on why exactly U2 named the song Vertigo, whether perhaps after a Mexican nightclub or something else.

Significance:
I first heard this in October 2024, during Hurricane Milton, in the same truck stop playlist as U2's other song Beautiful Day. I was delighted and amused to find it, understanding pretty well what it's about.

Which brings me to a fun little story I wrote as part of my "Invalid Item"

series in May/June 2024. I had no idea Vertigo existed yet, but I crafted an overwhelming nightclub environment and a jaded spy character who couldn't stand it, partly based on my own attitudes. Ironically, I managed to incorporate yet a different U2 song into that story: City of Blinding Lights. It received an award from an appreciative fellow author.

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Oh My My

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Floating up like there's water underneath; I'm the desert, you're the shining sea...
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