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.
This was playing in my head as I went to bed and when I woke up this morning. My kids love to watch this music video (so do I!) and so we watched it before bed time last night.
This is a very entertaining video. It was allegedly done in one take. I have my doubts, but whether or not it's true, it's still fun to watch.
Many of my friends criticize OK Go for having gimicky music videos and maybe so-so music. It's true, their music vidoes are some of the most entertaining there are to see. I bought this album "Of the Blue Colour of the Sky" a few months ago, and have really enjoyed the music. Watch the video and decide for yourself. The fact that my kids sing along to the video says to me that the music is catchy.
Nothing terribly strange today, just a good band called The Format and a song called "Sore Thumb"
It's almost too bad this is the song that is in my head, not that it's a bad song- just one of their less interesting. If you haven't heard The Format, it's time to check them out. They only released 2 albums, both are worth checking out for sure.
In sticking to the theme I've followed so far, I will keep with what comes to me in the mornings. This morning was a little bit odd. I'm a little ashamed to post this song, so I will start with how the song came to me.
I was watching VH-1's "100 Greatest Female Artist of all Time" or something like that. I wasn't watching the whole program, it was just the "go-to" channel to watch on the commercials of the other show I was watching. One of the featured artists was someone called "Lil' Kim." I had heard of her before, but had never heard her music. While they were featuring her, they played some of her music. The song below is one they played. I had never heard the song, but the chorus of it stuck in my brain somehow, and subconsciously stuck. Consequently, when I woke up, there it was playing. Even now, I couldn't tell you how any part of this song goes, but for some reason, it was in my head.
A DISCLAIMER: THIS SONG HAS VERY NAUGHTY LYRICS. I've posted the clean version, but I still don't recommend listening to it. I'm posting it to stay consistent with what I'm doing with this blog.
So, lying there in bed, surprised to hear this song going, the first thought I have is my new blog, and how I don't want to post it there. So I trick my mind into picking a different song, and this is what comes to me:
Yes, folks, there you have it. The iPod in my brain is on shuffle.
My wife played Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray last year, she was great, like with everything she does.
First thing this morning, at 5:50 A.M. our 2 month old baby woke up, and immediately this starts playing in my brain:
Funny, I thought the songs that came to me in the mornings were more random, but so far it appears that they are more relevent than I had initially thought. This is such a great song, by the way.
Our newborn has been colicky, and from the time I get home from work until his bedtime, he has to be held and bounced or he will cry. The other day my 4 year old came to me while I was watching the Jazz game. She had a loaf of bread, and asked me to open the bag and give her a piece of bread. She ran off, leaving me with the bag of bread. My wife started laughing at me when she noticed I was swaying and bouncing the loaf of bread. We're tired to say the least.
This is dedicated to anyone who has taken care of a newborn baby.
Saturday morning I woke up with this familiar ditty going through my head:
I'm not a big enough Whitney Houston fan to make some sort of memorial here without sounding incredibly trite. I will say this though: She had a great voice and I had a big crush on her when I used to watch her on MTV as a kid. Also, it's sad when anybody that gifted dies so unexpectedly. Also, I'm a bit disgusted by the media who is now glorifiying her as the greatest artist of all time, after banking on her battle with drugs and other struggles for so many years.
"The greatest love of all"- Probably the corniest pop ballad ever written. I remember singing it is a program at school in the sixth grade. It's one I'll never forget, though old, bitter and cynical- admittedly I find a certain element of inspiration in the words. Hopefully Whitney Houston found the greatest love of all, wherever she is.
Welcome to my head! You'll find in time it's an exciting and somewhat troubled place. I hope this can be a fun and entertaining blog about the music that is constantly going through my brain.
I am in my early thirities. I don't claim to be terribly musical- I have tried but come up short of anything brilliant. I am however sickeningly obsessed with music. On top of that, I've been exposed to lots of different kinds of music- from the Beatles as a child, a classical phase as a kid, a Musical Theater affair in High School, and all kinds of rock/pop in between- putting lots of songs in my head. At any given moment, you can ask me what song is going through my head and I can tell you. Sadly, most of the time it's not a song I like. I find this humorous, and thought that I would share the funny songs that play and use it as a way to tell funny stories and share some good and bad music.
I'm sure most people don't care, but it's fun for me, so I'll try anyway. Enjoy the music!
