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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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SAD Holiday Potato

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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Merry 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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Merry 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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Merry 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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Merry QPdoll

Oct 6, 2024 at 7:58am
In response to "Three Little Birds"

It's been a long time since I've heard this song. I don't know if I've heard it from beginning to end. I think it's just been in pieces in different instances. Thank you for sharing. I don't have a playlist, but the song is fun.

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September 27, 2024 at 6:24am

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Passenger

My seventh choice is Passenger, a OneRepublic deep cut—I think perhaps a bonus track—off of their 2009 sophomore album Waking Up.

As was my tendency in my early years of musical exploration, I focused more on the poeticism of lyrics than the minutiae of style; I adored the words of Passenger without being experienced enough to understand the musical genres it falls into. I told myself it sounded like "Christian contemporary music;" looking back on it now, I have no idea how I reached that conclusion. I suppose the piano sounds rather churchy.

A note: Passenger is definitely the kind of song which sounds far better with high quality binaural headphones/earbuds. The different instruments are carefully sorted out from one side to the other, creating a richly three-dimensional audio experience.

With that being made clear, I think I would now categorize Passenger as more of a corny, piano-based, early aughts emo type of song than anything else, similar to Keane. Indeed, if your audio system is mono or anything sub-par, you might find the song to be a noisy mess.
(These days it doesn't cost anything to get better quality sound; my current pair of truly wireless earbuds is a $5 set from Dollar Tree, and good grief, I'm hearing all my music like I've never heard it before

it's glorious

)

Which brings me to an interesting question I've recently considered. I'll start by saying there are two kinds of vintage emo music: sappy girly narratives and angsty annoying rants. Maybe I can say there's the Jimmy Eat World "it just takes some time, little girl" and the All American Rejects "I hope he gives you hell." And then there's Fall Out Boy… don't get me started on how much I hate them

OneRepublic always steered to the former type rather than the latter.

The question I asked myself is: does emo music always sound like such a noisy unmelodious mess because I've only ever heard it in mono, on radios and shop speakers and whatnot? Maybe if I heard something from Green Day or one of those artists I couldn't care less about with better quality audio, I might understand what all the fuss is. (Green Day is currently doing a coffee collaboration with 7-Eleven. Any of you ever tried Punk Bunny coffee?)

Honestly, though, for me, Passenger is a song which reaches beyond genres and creates a timeless, era-less work of art. It sounds better to me now than it did when I first listened to it in the misty mountains of Asheville NC. When I hear it now, I understand it is old-fashioned. But to me it doesn't sound like anything else I've ever heard. And I love that.

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