Posts Tagged ‘song crush’
In Mind
Lately I’ve had Chastity Brown‘s music in my mind, particularly, her song “Lift Us.” It suits me. You know how I feel about love, that it certainly does lift us. I think she’s got it right with these lyrics, and every other nuance of this recording, as well. She wins me over right away at the opening guitar up-strums, but then the way the bass slides to enter with the drums; the background “ooo ooos;” the light balance, yet fuzzy substance of the electric guitar; the emotion with which she distorts the pronunciations –getting “lift” to sound like “leeeeft;” the rhythmic bounce that carries the whole thing all the way to the end.
I highly recommend you take the time to pay extra attention to the details as you listen, but be forewarned, when you listen to all the detail, songs have a way of burying themselves in your mind.
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I was heading down a road
Going nowhere
But I didn’t even know
Ya know I didn’t even care
But along the way
Came a word I was needing to hearChorus:
Love can lift us
Oh love real love
Love can lift us
Talkin ‘bout love real loveSo you say you’re all alone
Drowning in a sea of people
I will throw you a rope
Pull you to shore
So you can feel thisChorus
Talkin bout love
If you’ve ever been on the floor
Aint go no where to go
Just lookin up keep lookin upChorus
credits: from Back-Road Highways, released 24 March 2012
© all rights reserved Chastity Brown
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Song Crushes
Here we go again, two-fold! I now have two new songs that are jumping out at me at the same time.
The first one of the two to get my attention recently has the banjo sound that I have always been fond of, and an energizing amount of crescendo. I have heard other Mumford & Sons songs and been drawn to their sound before, but the new release has made a different impression on me. It has led me to actually look up the band, to learn their history and discover member’s names. The song is, “I Will Wait,” the first single released from their latest album, “Babel.”
I am partial to the studio version, but the version I found at the time of this posting is of them performing live. It will suffice:
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The second song is a surprise for me. When I heard the radio DJ introducing a new song from Bob Dylan, I was intrigued. I automatically wanted to like it. Unfortunately, from the start, I was disappointed. I didn’t like what I was hearing. However, by the time the song ended, I was singing along. When I had a chance to hear it a second time, I found myself excited to hear it. Like has happened for me many times before, the initial sounds that didn’t appeal to me, now came across as desirable. And I get hooked by that chorus. Go, Bob, go. “Duquesne Whistle.”
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