Give It a Kick

It's Christmas Eve, and I still haven't written this. I'll just get it over with.

I'm just an Amazon fanboy who enjoys indie music. And to be honest, this song has gotten me through about three editions of University Press.

From Dr. Dog's album released in February, Be The Void, "Do The Trick."

My heart, it ain't running right

Why don't you give it a kick?

Will you be my handyman?

Will you do the trick?

No Defences

As someone with no extra money for music, I get most of mine of Amazon. They offer a great selection of free MP3s, which I take advantage of because most songs are actually great and because I do business on their. Not only do I buy, but I also sell. Anyone need a Dell flat-screen monitor? No? Okay. :(

This song featured is actually song by Alexander Ebert, the lead singer for Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, featured earlier this year on The Archenemy. I was also suprised that this guy had earlier released music with another that disbanded and that he also solos from time-to-time. In this song, he teamed up with RZA from the Wu-Tang Clan, which I thought was made up of Asian-Americans. The name got me... does that make a stereotypist? I don't think so... is that even a word?

From Mr. Ebert's 2011 début solo album Alexander, "Truth."

And when the darkness come, let it inside you
Your darkness is shining
My darkness is shining
Have faith in myself
Truth

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I'm not entirely sure where this song came from. It probably came from the local public radio station run here in Dallas. I must have added it to my Zune cart and then forgot about it. 

Last Wednesday was 'lights out' for us kids. We had the electricity shut-off on us by our own parents. They cited us not waking up in the morning and did that to persuade us to fall asleep. I ended up reading a book by Levi Johnston (NSFW link) (Safe For Work link) and fell asleep listening to the BBC World Service around 3 AM. 

On Friday, I finally got around to listening to the song. I actually liked it, enough so to save it and stuff. 

From the Los Angeles-based indie band Milo Greene (although non of the members themselves are named Milo), from their self-titled début album, "1957".

Your house that sits behind me is covered in every green

The windows that we watch from are old and chipping at the beam

Takes me away, takes me away, takes me away (3x)

All the Lonely People

At the beginning of my freshman year in high school, I was introduced to the Finale software. Finale is a music authoring software that allows you to write in your music. If you've ever heard of Sibelius, it's the same thing. Using Finale and using my brother's guitar book for beginners, I arranged a version of the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby."

For about the last four years, I've used Finale many times and I know it well. In 2011, after the software locked me out, I stopped using it. I uninstalled it and to listen to all my Finale files, I installed Finale Reader, which only reads files. No editing. After I was unsatisfied by how the files sounded, I decided to get Finale 2012. 

While looking through my archives, I found the "Eleanor Rigby" arrangement I had made. Jesus...  I look back and think to myself how bad it looks. But things aren't as bad as you think. Sometimes, they remind you of great things. 

So in a complete 180° to this post, the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby."

All the lonely people

Where do they all come from?

All the lonely people

Where do they all belong?

Hey Boy

No, it's not going to be one of those posts. Yet.

I'm not sure how long along I found it, but on Archive.org's website, in the Community Audio section, someone uploaded all of Queen's Greatest Hit album. I'm not sure which one it is, since record companies always re-release things like this, but while listening to the thing last weekend, I got real hooked on this song about forty-two minutes in.

I love it. It's very Queen-y, surprisingly heterosexual, and something that I've replayed now maybe ten times while writing Dirty Lyrics. Being as young as I am, this whole Internet doohickey has exposed me to some great music... this song included.

From Queen's 1976 album A Day at the Races, this Freddie Mercury ditty "Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy."

When I'm not with you
I think of you always
I miss you (I miss those long hot summer nights)
When I'm not with you/ Think of me always
Love you/ Love you