I have decided (in the interests of keeping the blog going during lean patches) to begin educating my many many readers in the music I listen to. I will post a song once every week (usually on Friday afternoons).
Course Requirements:
You WILL listen to the song. While most songs are short I do not rule out exposure to 13 minute epics such as the Rime of the Ancient Mariner etc.
We will progress gradually, but you may, from time to time, be required to make a leap for a week. You will not be graded on these difficult songs.
For my introductory class, I have chosen Machine Head by Bush. The lyrics are below. The part of the song to especially note is the riff (the intro sequence of notes) and in particular how it's used midway during the first verse in the background to build up to the chorus. The lyrics aren't bad either. Enjoy!
Breathe in, breathe out
Breathe in, breathe out
Breathe in
Breathe in, breathe out
Breathe in, breathe out
Breathe in
Tied to a wheel fingers got to feel
Bleedin' through a turniquet smile
I spin on a whim I slide to the right
I felt you like electric light
For our love
For our fear
For our rise against the years and years and years
Got a machinehead better than the rest
Green to red machinehead
Got a machinehead better than the rest
Green to red
And I walk from my machine
I walk from my machine
Breathe in, breathe out
Breathe in, breathe out
Breathe in
Deaf, dumb, and thirty
Starting to deserve this
Leaning on my conscience wall
Blood is like wine
Unconscious all the time
If I had it all again
I'd change it all
Got a machinehead better than the rest
Green to red machinehead
Got a machinehead better than the rest
Green to red
And I walk from my machine
I walk from my machine
Breathe in, breathe out
Breathe in, breathe out
Breathe in
Breathe in
Breathe in
Got a machinehead better than the rest
Green to red machinehead
Got a machinehead better than the rest
Green to red
Better than the rest
Better than the rest
Machinehead
And I walk from my machine
I walk from my machine
Saturday, 1 March 2008
Music Education - Class 1
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2 comments:
noooooo :( i have enough education as it is, don't need more padhai and homework.
where u are bhanishing my dear boy? did i tell u that i now read pages and pages of hindi thanks to atal behari vajpayee's speeches in the lok sabha?
and that a commission was instituted in west bengal to investigate cases of duck plague (random factoid of the day).
also, what do you know about the 24th amendment (or the 25th, whichever one was in 1971) and what should i read about it???
sign me up. maybe i could learn to appreciate noise :)
must admit, its easier if you post the songs without the video. watching the video is an education in itself.
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