Good Morning with Nick Drake

What a nice way to start my day.

Sweet video:

Got a smile on my face :)

inflatable

had a revelation. sort of. or maybe i just came across the right words. 

music is the art of feeling. it's pure feel. 

yes, you could analyze it. you don't if you don't connect to the feel immediately, and you would anyways after the first impression, the emotional blow, fades out. good music would pass that test too. 

but what i mean is that the first thing about a good song is what it does to you. the way it plays in your head while you're thinking that this song is exactly how you feel. and how nothing else describes it better, nothing else understands you better in that instance. 

me, i could travel through numerous feelings a day, and if i stick to the mood of letting my heart rule my playlist for a whole day, it could be like a bunch of totally different songs. I've had hours in which beethoven, tool, depeche mode, mika and the red hots squized into the same hour.

but in longer terms, i think that there's always a song that stays me for a longer time. like some of elliott smith and silverchair lately. somehow very similar to my inner state. 

my point being... its a great art. its not just about writing great words, having a nice groove, create inspiring melodies, playing it all the best. when music fits your heart and provokes your emotions, when you feel like that song was written just for you, thats the very best music gets. and putting that in your music demands a different kind of gift, and it demands a sensitive and open heart. it demands your own soul. 

Gnarls Barkley

Gnarls Barkley, the combination of Cee-lo Green and Dangermouse, are commonly known by their mega hit Crazy.

I think that most people really don't see whats behind it. I saw a cover of an Israeli band with one of the biggest stars in Israeli pop, Ninet, she was acting like a mental and the whole feel was like stressful and disturbed. To me that really shows people don't get the lyrics or the idea of this song. It's attitude is actually much more calm and enlightened, accepting we don't have control and it's crazy to dream and enjoy our lives in such reality, but we all do. Anyways, I really love this song, i think it's misunderstood. 

But the Gnarls Barkley experience doesn't stop there. 

They got awesome beats, cee-lo's very cool vocals, and the whole musical texture thats so fresh: 

 

Not to mention their style, it's just everywhere. 

And with all that, the most impressive thing about them is that they really know how to pinch your heart.

The pick for me is this amazing song called Who's gonna Save My Soul. 

Now, the video has a massive effect standing alone, the song is a beautiful background to this heart breaking scene...

But after a few times you can also watch this version, which might be even more touching.. Their whole session in abbey road is very interesting. 

In order to leave you with something humorous that lets down the emotions, this last song is just cute.. and so very catchy.

Pop industry gone mad

What the hack got into her?! What happened between this and the sweet and moving Fireworks?
(My guess, the next Lady Gaga groundbreaking hit):

Fuck.

Notice this song is really similar to Bad Romance - Same chords more or less, same structure, same textual idea, and it's more than musically quoted in the theme (ohohoh I'm in love with Judas - ohohohoh caught in a bad romance). It's nothing new. And yet its groundbreaking, Madonna style - Lady gaga is shoving it into your face, without really saying anything. Admirable.

It's nothing new, Lady gaga has been steering the pop industry for a while now, may i say - only in good ways. Go Gaga. 

Elliott Smith

It's this kind of music that you just don't know what to tell about it. Something about it is so plain and common that you couldn't imagine someone not relating to it, and on the other hand you can't explain what it is about it that makes you like it, despite the banal feeling. Or maybe you can, cause this songs are so small, humble and unpretentious, that they're nothing but true. Using such words makes me feel I'm doing wrong to these songs. they're just small. small and true. And I want to quote them, so badly, I want to write the feeling just like this music provokes, but the words become dust without the music, they are useless without it. Not because the music is more powerful. Its the virtue of these songs, their heart lies in between the combination of words and sounds. their small, beating, sentimental heart.

Those some who I related to the most, lately.


P.s.: I am very close to the job of my dreams as a radio musical editor. thats... still unbelievable. One step closer...

P.s. II: Another cute song I've been humming, great doorsy feel to it, sweet sound. veryyyy catchy.