I've always wanted to see a vid done to Chris Isaac's song 29 Palms--sorry, dunno which album it was on. I'm not sure what fandom it deserves, or how you'd use it to comment ironically on a particular series (maybe an ep that happens to be set in SoCal, I'm not sure), but it has such an intriguing tone. And yes, that's exactly what it's like out there in that part of the desert, or was 20 years ago. But all his stuff that I've heard (his earlier mostly) sounds to me like it belongs in a vampire series soundtrack. Or Vampyre, if you prefer. Very reverb pedal, echoing, distant, so cool it has freezerburn. If anybody's mentioned John Fogarty's latest stuff here, I missed seeing it. I'm rather fond of his whole album Blue Moon Swamp, which won a Grammy as Best Rock Album, but is more country/bluesy sounding to me--gutbucket rock, perhaps. Those songs all sound viddable to me, but I ain't an expert neither. If somebody hasn't used Walking in a Hurricane for a vid already then they ought to. (Told you I wasn't an expert.) I can't help but think Rattlesnake Highway could be turned into something fun and ironic and wierd, though it isn't a fun song. Second the motion on Tom Waits, too. Behind the Red Barn, In the Colisseum are more one-shots, not daily listening, but impressive impact. Not easy to listen to. Come away with your head changed... Since I like to listen to music to set the tone in my head when I'm writing, as in, "this is for movin' along briskly" (Forgarty's good for that) and "this is for thinking slowly and clearly" (I tend toward Mozart for that)--the Waits is about dealing straight-on with really tough stuff. I also rather like most of the soundtrack to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, parts of which were performed by the cello player Yoyo Ma, and I've been thinking about tracking down more of Tan Dun's compositions. It's a little on the sentimental side sometimes for me, since I tend to listen to that on mp3 player while at work, which isn't a good venue for sentimentality, but it does ground me back into my whole, real life and out of the clouds of paperwork, which is helpful.
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I've always wanted to see a vid done to Chris Isaac's song 29 Palms--sorry, dunno which album it was on. I'm not sure what fandom it deserves, or how you'd use it to comment ironically on a particular series (maybe an ep that happens to be set in SoCal, I'm not sure), but it has such an intriguing tone. And yes, that's exactly what it's like out there in that part of the desert, or was 20 years ago.
But all his stuff that I've heard (his earlier mostly) sounds to me like it belongs in a vampire series soundtrack. Or Vampyre, if you prefer. Very reverb pedal, echoing, distant, so cool it has freezerburn.
If anybody's mentioned John Fogarty's latest stuff here, I missed seeing it. I'm rather fond of his whole album Blue Moon Swamp, which won a Grammy as Best Rock Album, but is more country/bluesy sounding to me--gutbucket rock, perhaps. Those songs all sound viddable to me, but I ain't an expert neither. If somebody hasn't used Walking in a Hurricane for a vid already then they ought to. (Told you I wasn't an expert.) I can't help but think Rattlesnake Highway could be turned into something fun and ironic and wierd, though it isn't a fun song.
Second the motion on Tom Waits, too. Behind the Red Barn, In the Colisseum are more one-shots, not daily listening, but impressive impact. Not easy to listen to. Come away with your head changed...
Since I like to listen to music to set the tone in my head when I'm writing, as in, "this is for movin' along briskly" (Forgarty's good for that) and "this is for thinking slowly and clearly" (I tend toward Mozart for that)--the Waits is about dealing straight-on with really tough stuff.
I also rather like most of the soundtrack to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, parts of which were performed by the cello player Yoyo Ma, and I've been thinking about tracking down more of Tan Dun's compositions. It's a little on the sentimental side sometimes for me, since I tend to listen to that on mp3 player while at work, which isn't a good venue for sentimentality, but it does ground me back into my whole, real life and out of the clouds of paperwork, which is helpful.