Daniel Johns

I can't get enough of this album. Every damn song provides a different touch in another right place burning the heart in pieces... pleasuring the ears with surprises, pure voice, great texture and such romance...

Daniel Johns, their composer, song writer and lead singer, he's everything. I mean, to be able to write such complex and unexpected melodies, include a romantic touch and a sense for drama, all this with great talent, a sharp musical ear and a beautifully soothing velvet voice, with the matching pretty face and deep sea blue eyes... ahhh....
So wait, I was saying... yes. I think this is what makes a good musician. You have to be everything, to have everything in you - the ear and the voice, the heart, soul and brains, stable ideas, sharp senses and strong emotions, to be able to actually create music that is whole. I could say this about a few musical artists, which are also the ones I admire most, that their creation stems from their nature, that the person is part of the whole act - the music. I mean this as a whole. There are a few artists who's music really makes me feel i know who they are, that I feel their loves and pains throughout the art, and furthermore - I feel they know me, better than anyone else. It's rare, and I believe it's music's greatest power. 

Now Daniel Johns has officially been added to the list of my musical love affairs, to his honor, he is now placed together with: 

Daniel Gildenlow. He would be the greatest music-love. Undertow is the song that was there for me in the worst times, the all-time lows, one of the songs that makes me prefer music over people. Daniel's awareness to the world's pain, his full volumed emotions, the way he sees the world and himself, all combined with his amazing music and his expressive abilities.. and he also looks great. 

In difficult parts I really do feel like he is the only one who knows how I feel. 

A Perfect Circle's Maynard James Keenan. The face he shows on tool doesn't have the same effect on me. A perfect circle have some songs that also make me feel like that. By now I feel a bit like I've outgrown them, but their respect lies in it's place, and there are times that remind me how much I could relate. 3 Libras especially. No song can describe it better.

Rishloo, quite an anonymous and very underrated band from Seattle. They are such a powerful band, yet very dramatic and so deep. In this case I have actually conversed with the band's head on facebook...

And you could sort of count Jeff Buckley. But he will stay that myth. 

Yeah now I'm totally in love with that pretty face, velvet voice, pure talent, fragile soul.. 

 

Connections, Some New Ones and Some Old Ones

I love seeing how things connect, how everything connects. That's how my brain works. That's why I love cover works.

My latest Elliott Smith loved song:

Led me to the origin:

That linked to a cover by Wilco. I find it disapointing though:

And this last cover by Garbage. It's all Garbage-styled,  is cute but redundant..:

My favourite version is the Elliott Smith one... surprisingly.

My Elliott Smith temporary obsession almost makes my other obsession go unnoticed. Silverchair. They disbanded this week. Their album Diorama (2002) is one of those album that each song captures you, gets to you hard. They have a sense for drama, even theatrical sense, and i really appreciate that. Reminds me a little of Pain Of Salvation. The music is smart, refreshing and beautifully melodic, and the vocals are excellent. The sort of songs i can't stop singing all day.

And this song is extremely cool, well done everything:

Of what I've heard by now, Incubus' new album If Not Now, When? sounds maturer, as prompted, but keeps the band's forever-young style. There are some surprises there, and some promising hits, like Isadore:

Some groovy 60's band to finish, Blind Faith. So fine!