Blogs are so passe and pretentious. Oh well, here's my blog about music that's stuck in my head when I wake up in the mornings along with adventures of the Cash family and wacky wacky crazy wacky shenanigans.
It's from the Killer's debut 2004 album HOT FUSS. This is the first song I ever heard by this great band and I was hooked immediately.
Many of you know that I'm a Mormon, and so is the Killers' lead singer, Brandon Flowers (or brother Flowers as I lovingly refer to him.)
I can't help but believe that this song is about Christ. I could be way off, but listen to the lyrics.
My favorite is the final line:
Over and in.
Last call for sin.
While everything's lost,
the battle is won,
with all these things that I've done.
I'm not gonna apologize for my religious interpretation of this song. I will always hear it this way. I also love that Brandon Flowers can be a hard-core rock star and a Mormon.
Here's another video in case you haven't seen it.
I do love the killers. Yes indeed. Keep rocking, Brother Flowers.
Are you tired of me blogging about songs that have to do with the lack of sleep I get as a parent?
Too bad. Here's another today. It's from The Postal Service, the supergroup consisting of Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie, electronic musician Jimmy Tamborello (AKA Dntel) and Jenny Lewis (one of my favorites!) of Rilo Kiley. In 2003 they released their only album GIVE UP.
Today's song is the third track from that album:
All right, enough of the serious stuff. My favorite time has come ANOTHER GIVEAWAY! It's a magic time when I've blogged about enough songs to fill a compilation disc and give it away along with other crap I'm trying to get rid of around the house.
"Compilation Disc!" you might say. What year is this, 1999? No, it's 2015 but I'm still nostalgic for a good compilation disc. So what I do is take the last 18 songs I've blogged about most recently and configure them in a good order so that you have your very own disc of songs to listen to as you commute, work or go on a road trip or whatever.
So, I'm happy to present to you "The Songs Stuck in Brady's Head: Volume 10!"
And this one is a real treat! It's full of more radio hits than any of the other compilations I've given away here. It's also my most retro, with several hits from the 60's 70's 80's and 90's. But don't worry, it has some of that more obscure stuff too, if that's your thing.
"This compilation disc is really, really good"
-Barbara Bush.
Compilation disc #10 comes along with 10 CD's I have lying around the house. 10 is the magic number:
Here are the albums you will win:
For your classical fix: "Puccini and Pasta" a compilation of great Puccini classics!
For your rock/ska fix: Rodeo Ruby Love's "This is Why We Don't Have Nice Things"
For your indie rock fix: "The Moon and Antarctica" by Modest Mouse
For your hip hop/rap fix: "The Black Album" by Jay-Z.
For your 90's nostalgia fix: Counting Crowe's "Recovering the Satellites"
For your 70's hard rock fix: "Led Zeppelin III"
For your electronic/alternative fix: "Amnesiac" by Radiohead
For your love 'em or hate 'em fix: "Crash" by Dave Matthews Band
For your rock/pop fix: Weezer's Red Album
For your bluegrass/folk fix: A delightful little EP called "Ahoy" by Punch Brothers
"6.5 out of these 10 albums are pretty OK"
-Dom Deluise
And lastly, with the magic giveaway number being 10, I reckon we'll give you 10 pieces of Hi-Chew Candy or something like that.
"I've eaten Hi-Chew candy before"
-Jennifer Loves-Hewitt
So, I'm not sure if I've made it clear, so here's what you can win if you enter this contest:
-Compilation Disc
-10 CD's
-10 Hi-Chew Candies
-Bragging Rights
How you enter is really really easy, just like other giveaways- simply Comment, or "LIKE" this post on my FACEBOOK PAGE where you'll where I've shared this blog post. I'll then randomly pick a winner and ship you your winnings to wherever you are in the world. (or meet up for lunch or something if you live close by)
*NOTE- REMEMBER TO COMMENT OR "LIKE" ON THE FACEBOOK PAGE-NOT MY PERSONAL FB PAGE.....
I love when people enter these contests, so don't be shy. It's just for fun and a neat way for me to connect with my friends SLASH the world.
There is so much I could tell you about the hectic week I've had. I've barely had time to think about myself- let alone this blog.
Long story short, wife has spent the last week in the hospital with a blood clot. She's still there now. I miss her and I now recognize how incredibly dysfunctional our lives are without her.
She'll be fine, it will take some time though.
I'm happy to share today's song which comes from the talented and
little-known, Nashville-Based, Ben Shive. A friend of mine gave me a copy of Shive's
incredibly good and obscure 2011 album THE CYMBAL CRASHING CLOUDS.
This song is the opening track on the album, it's called "Listen!" and
you should, because it's the best song I've ever heard that uses train
horns and arpeggiated pianos to underscore the song! The best!
No really, it's a great song and the chorus gets stuck in my head a lot. I don't mind one bit:
It saddens me that an artist like Ben Shive is lost in a sea of musicians. Although this song is available on YouTube, it's been there 3 years and only has 811 "views" Sad sad sad.
But the good news is that I've now introduced this artist to the one person who reads my blog regularly, my mom!
