MAKE ME A CHEVY
Grad Student.
Drummer for Saxon Shore and Revengineers
Posts tagged audio
I’m selling my monome. $500.
Sadly, I haven’t had time to really play with it, so it is brand new. I’d rather see someone get some use out of it than just sitting on a shelf.
Moreover, I am selling it so I can finish refurbishing the Rhodes piano that is in my house.
To learn more about the monome, go here: http://monome.org/
Message me if you are interested!
Hey, I released an album about a year ago. It contains 10 songs about my hometown, Binghamton, NY. Eight songs are up for streaming, and the last two come with a purchase of the album!
You should check it out.
For those of you curious of what I do sometimes during the day at school, this image is part of it.
Using my favorite string quartet, I analyzed the waveform and did a complete spectral analysis, waveform autocorrelation, chromagram, and key strengths.
Enjoy!
A Valentines Day list of non-traditional Love Songs I Love.
Almost all popular songs are about love and sex, so a list of ‘favorite love songs’ in a general sense was kind of difficult to create. So, I have chosen to focus on songs you may or may not have heard, and give some short reasons why I love the song.
As far as ‘non-traditional’, I mean that I won’t include obvious love songs, like U2’s “One” or my favorite love song of all time, Sam Cooke’s “Cupid”. So here it is, a list of love songs you might enjoy, with one lyric that makes the song for me.
Caroline - Where’s My Love
Such a simple and beautiful song. Caroline is a friend of Saxon Shore, and sang on our song “This Place”. She has a tremendous voice, and an ear for composition which is unparalleled. The song itself is relatively simple, a descending chord progression in F Major and a basic, yet effective, melody.
The song is that usual tale about losing someone that might have been the one, however, she presents it as there still might be someone else out there for them…someone even better.
“Where’s my love, who could you be? Someone I knew, but let slip through while dreaming of you.”
The Promise Ring - Red & Blue Jeans
“Nothing feels good like you in red and blue jeans and your white and night things.”
The only true lyric in the song, and yet is says so much. It makes me think of that part of love when you look at your partner in the morning before your day starts and love everything about them, and then at the end of the day, you still feel the same. Also, when the “Doo Doo’s” come in later in the song, it just makes me feel so happy. I makes me feel like I am in love, careless, and just wandering around singing and humming to myself.
One lyric repeated over and over is an underlying theme of this whole album, and in this song in particular, it just gets ingrained in your head.
Owen - O, Evelyn
A song about a different kind of love, the love of a parent for their child. I don’t have children (someday, I hope to), but many of my friends do, and I can see their love and pride for their children. This song embodies that emotion I see.
Owen (Mike Kinsella) has always been kind of a downer in regards to love songs, but lately he has been writing more uplifting and beautiful songs. I left his last album off my best of 2011 list, and that was a mistake, because I do love it, I just forgot.
“O, Evelyn. Don’t shy away from the cameras, and don’t die before I do.”
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman - Lush Life
Here I present a song, not about ‘love’, but about the heartbreak of loving someone. One of my favorite jazz songs of all time, written by Billy Strayhorn, and captured in this tremendous recording by Coltrane and Hartman…and recorded by Rudy Van Gelder, one of my personal heroes.
Hartman’s voice is like an old wise, albeit bitter, friend telling you about the ways of love, and how you will be disappointed from time to time by its deceptions. Then Coltrane’s sax enters for the solo, to a double time feel, almost hinting at giving love another try…but Hartman has one more role to play…the role of Captain Bringdown.
“I’ll forget you, I will. While yet you are still burning inside my brain.”
The Dismemberment Plan - Ellen and Ben
I love that this song is a story told from an outsider. We’ve all had those friends who started dating and just disappeared from all social activity, and this song captures it in detail. From the chance meeting, to falling in love, to vanishing, to breaking up…and none of it really effects the storyteller, just that he is overly annoyed with their disregard for their friends.
“It seems kind of weird, they made each other feel like could die but they couldn’t stay the slightest of friends.”
Eels - I Want To Protect You
I’ve always been a huge fan of Eels and Mark Oliver Everett. He has this knack of writing simple songs, simple lyrics, yet makes them sound so meaningful and deep.
I’ll just let you enjoy this one. The song speaks for itself.
“Such a delicate girl needs someone to look out for the wolves. I want to protect you.”
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Well I hope you enjoyed the list, and heard some new songs!
Happy Valentines Day!
