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itsnotmymindTo welcome myself back to livejournal and to prove that I do listen to music by people who were never in the Beatles, a few of my favorite songs:
I've never gotten into Simon and Garfunkel biographically (because getting into musicians biographically is fun, but also emotionally intense), but I always thought it was interesting that on the last album they did together, Paul Simon wrote not one but two very affectionate songs that are said to be about Art Garfunkel. One of them is "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright", and the other is one of my favorite Simon and Garfunkel songs, "The Only Living Boy in New York".
Another of my favorite Simon and Garfunkel songs is "A Hazy Shade of Winter", which is one of those songs where you can't really tell what the lyrics are supposed to mean, but they somehow make perfect sense.
I listened to the Maroon 5 album Song About Jane more times than I can remember as a teenager. My favorite song has always been "Must Get Out".
Shakira is a Colombian singer with songs in both Spanish and English. More purist fans prefer her Spanish songs. I am not a purist, and so will post one of each.
My sister once pointed out that the opening piano chords of the OneRepublic song "Come Home" are similar to the Beatles song "Let it Be", and I recently noticed that the theme of imagining a future where everyone is getting along but acknowledging that perhaps the singer is only dreaming is reminiscent of John Lennon's song "Imagine".
The Carly Simon song I wanted to post was "Film Noir", but I can't find that on Youtube, and so will having to settle for "Like a River", the song she wrote when her mother died:
And while I said I wasn't doing any songs from Beatles or former Beatles, I'm going to make an exception. "See Your Sunshine" was a love song Paul wrote for his second wife Heather Mills while they were still married, but released on the album that came out shortly after their acrimonious divorce. I like this song because it is so happy, and it gives you a sense of why Paul fell in love with Heather in the first place.
I've never gotten into Simon and Garfunkel biographically (because getting into musicians biographically is fun, but also emotionally intense), but I always thought it was interesting that on the last album they did together, Paul Simon wrote not one but two very affectionate songs that are said to be about Art Garfunkel. One of them is "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright", and the other is one of my favorite Simon and Garfunkel songs, "The Only Living Boy in New York".
Another of my favorite Simon and Garfunkel songs is "A Hazy Shade of Winter", which is one of those songs where you can't really tell what the lyrics are supposed to mean, but they somehow make perfect sense.
I listened to the Maroon 5 album Song About Jane more times than I can remember as a teenager. My favorite song has always been "Must Get Out".
Shakira is a Colombian singer with songs in both Spanish and English. More purist fans prefer her Spanish songs. I am not a purist, and so will post one of each.
My sister once pointed out that the opening piano chords of the OneRepublic song "Come Home" are similar to the Beatles song "Let it Be", and I recently noticed that the theme of imagining a future where everyone is getting along but acknowledging that perhaps the singer is only dreaming is reminiscent of John Lennon's song "Imagine".
The Carly Simon song I wanted to post was "Film Noir", but I can't find that on Youtube, and so will having to settle for "Like a River", the song she wrote when her mother died:
And while I said I wasn't doing any songs from Beatles or former Beatles, I'm going to make an exception. "See Your Sunshine" was a love song Paul wrote for his second wife Heather Mills while they were still married, but released on the album that came out shortly after their acrimonious divorce. I like this song because it is so happy, and it gives you a sense of why Paul fell in love with Heather in the first place.
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Date: 2012-11-08 04:30 am (UTC)Incidentally, Luminosity used it in her majestic Scooby Road for Buffy and Faith in season 3 (Faith is Maxwell; Buffy, of course, is Joan). I've been meaning to ask you if you've watched Scooby Road, since I don't know when you marathoned the show and got online. It's the one fanwork I would wish to survive if all others would have to perish, vidding the entirety of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the entirety of Abbey Road, and it's awesome beyond belief. Back whens she put it up, I reviewed it here.
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Date: 2012-11-08 04:11 pm (UTC)I've been lurking online for several years, and I watch Buffy in 2009-2010 (I took a break after season three because I got bored).
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Date: 2012-11-09 07:29 am (UTC)It certainly isn't a favourite song of mine (though Paul's vocal is awesome, pace John and Geoff Emerick - must have been thereapeutic to sing that alone when the others had left for a week!), though I've gained appreciation, and like you, partly though Lum picking it for the s6 Buffy and Spike relationship. Which really fits so well! And as I wrote in my own review, I'd have never picked You never give me your money for Buffy/Angel, but wow, did it ever fit, and suddenly that combination of a beautiful melody with a lyric of complete disconnection and non-communication gained a whole new dimension.
Oh! And Dawn's appearance to "she came in through the bathroom window" - anohter magic moment that meant whenever I hear it now I always think of Dawn.
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Date: 2012-11-09 02:26 pm (UTC)