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As I sit in my Brooklyn apartment staring out the window into the greyness counting the minutes until I can have my next cigarette and cursing myself for not being able to find my zippo, I notice how my musical tastes change with the weather. No more than a few weeks ago I was listening to the upbeat sounds of the summer, rocking my personal classics like ATDI and Deftones and looking into new sounds like Moving Units and MGMT. I can already feel another musical lul right around the corner hiding in the shadows, waiting patiently to spring and and say "YOU ARE NOW BORED WITH ALL OF YOUR MUSIC!" as I start to notice myself regressing to my older punkier tastes like Television, Wire and Talking Heads. All of the above mentioned is a definite sign I've seen all too many times indicating that my ipod will be stuck on 3 to 4 bands for a few months as I get through the cold, greyness of new york.
CMJ is going on right now but I am unable to motivate myself to look through the copius bands on the website to filter the ones I may want to see, then actually make the journey into the city to see them, I don't know what's wrong with me. Is music unable to inspire me anymore? Why is there this huge missing piece of my life I used to embrace as much as breathing? Where are all the new bands I've been wanting to check out? What should I be listening to? Why am I asking rhetorical questions?
Blarg. I'm going to smoke.
Fist off, has it really been 127 days since my last post? Amazing. Time really does fly when you are living.
Last night I was sitting in a bar in SoHo when a truly amazing folk cover of Rhianna - Umbrella came on. My girlfriend and I looked at each other and just started laughing, but as the song progressed we both found ourselves singing along and enjoying it. This isn't the first time it has happened where I hear a popular hiphop/R&B/funk song covered by a folk singer and found it good to the point where I like the cover better and would probably like it as the original song, not a cover. Right when we got back to my apartment I hit Google to find the track and found that there are many covers of this song, mostly folky. The cover we heard at the bar was by Biffy Clyro, whom I have never heard of, but then again I had never heard of Obediah Parker before I heard their cover of Hey Ya.
This got me thinking... remember those Punk Goes Pop or Punk Goes Metal albums? I think a Fold Goes Pop or HipHop needs to be made. There are already plenty of tracks out here that fit into this category, we just need to encourage more folk artists to cover pop songs, but cover them well. I know that I personally will be creating said playlist on my itunes and trying to acquire as many of these tracks as possible. I will now direct you all to a website that lists the "Top 5 Folky Covers of Rap & HipHop Songs."
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/11294
ENJOY and please, please, share with me your favorite folky cover songs, hip hop or not.
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oh wow, I just found this.... Just another one of those songs that I would like even if it wasn't a cover. I feel that some of these are better done than the originals.
I love Scott Simons' cover of Umbrella as well: http://www.scottsimonsmusic.net/umbrella.html Have you heard "Of Montreal"'s cover of M.I.A.'s Jimmy? http://hypem.com/track/471310 That's an amazing cover too.
It's always good to hear a cover that takes the original song completely out of context and gives it a brand new feel, I think that's what every cover should do. Not much is worse than hearing a cover that sounds almost identical to the original, just with a different singer. If I wanted that, I would go to a karaoke bar.
So, I'm trying to get into listening to podcasts on the subway instead of music. Since my commute isn't all that long, I might be able to listen to two 30 minute casts. I decided that one of them would be Fresh Air, but I need a second one, preferably music oriented. News? New music? stuff like that. Anyone know of any that sound similar and are on iTunes?
Thanks YE'ALL
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Holy crap, it's Daniel.
First of all...how are you?!
Second of all, what are you doing in NYC? Aside from smoking and breaking hearts :)
Sometimes, even music freaks like us reach the point you describe. I know it comes and goes for me. Its mild version is "I don't like an new bands, meh meh meh, they sound boring" and its heavier is not knowing what to listen to, not wanting to bother with anything etc.
All of us, who are true music lovers, sooner or later we return to the scene of the crime, with a deus ex musica. And it's good. Oh yes, it's good :)
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YO ANNA! WHATs KRACK'N YUNG'N?
I'm just livin the life right now... I will probably be heading back west this late winter/early spring. Can't do the city anymore...
How you doing? You make it out here yet?