listening

Yes I am a full blooded Beatlemaniac but I haven’t listened to them as much the last few years. I’m listening to The White Album now.. and it’s just so amazing. Obviously I realize I am not letting people in on a secret, but almost all of my friends don’t listen to The Beatles. So many people my age just think of early pop “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” when they think of The Beatles. So I am recommending that everyone who hasn’t before listen to Beatles. The White Album, Yellow Submarine, (I always skip the title track when I listen to that album) Revolver, Abbey Road.

I guess what I want is for everyone to love them the way I do, which isn’t going to happen. My husband is a good example of that. He likes them, and has heard every song they have via our close proximity and yet he lacks the obsessive love that I feel for them. Although he really dose enjoy “Everybody’s Got Something To Hide (except for me and my monkey.)”

I was watching John Lennon Vs. The US a few months ago and there was a clip of an interview John had in the 70’s with some uptight conservative WHORE (pardon my language.) The interview was also in the movie “Imagine” which I watched every week for a good 2 years. So I said a few sentence as John was saying them.. and I have never seen my husband look so disgusted with me before.

I guess it’s all timing. It seems the bands you listen to in your teens, and for that matter as a child … I wanna say hold a special place in people hearts.. but that may be the lamest sentence ever so I will say… are more… you know… people are always more into them. Since I was listening to The Beatles in the womb, there’s no way I could ever get my husband to feel the way I do about them. That and he seems to be unaffected by Paul’s puppy eyes and John’s cool quick wit. That boggels my mind!

If you haven’t noticed there’s a link in the side bar to a page with a whole butt load of stuff about me, and one of those things is that I listen to the same few song over and over again for periods. Some times, and I will be the first to admit it, they are bad songs. I have a very eclectic musical palette. I listen to a lot of good stuff, and a lot of bad stuff. It seems like in this generation the music you listen to is more important then any other thing about you. At least among the people I have met. God forbid you actually like a Britney Spears song. Ok, that is bad. Maybe it’s all me. Maybe I am the one that is so judgmental of other peoples music taste I think everyone else will judge me. Whatev. I’m just putting this out there.. I listen to a lot of crappy music. I like Beyoncé. I’m not saying she’s a musical goddess or I buy all her songs, but there are a hand full that are catchy and I listen to them. So sue me.

The songs I’m playing now are,

Such Great Heights by The Postal Service

Lover, You should’ve come over by Jeff Buckley

Goodnight and go by Imogen Heap

Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap

Release me by Oh Laura
Imogen Heap I’m not sure about. I first heard “Hide and seek” and I liked it. Mostly I liked the last minuet of it. That whole “Mmmm what do you say” spiel. But the rest of it grew on me. Then I got several more songs and the only one I really liked was “Goodnight and go” I’m not sure how I feel about her voice when it’s not electronically altered. “Goodnight and go” is a basically a pop song. Just a warning.

The Jeff Buckley song is just so great. Sad love songs really get me going. “She’s a tear that hangs inside my soul forever…”

The Oh Laura song I like, but…. it’s not enough. It starts out so slow, which builds to a nice climax and then…..nothing. I’m left feeling like, “what.. wait.. keep going.” Her voice gets this great huskiness at the end and I want to hear more of that. It basically blows it’s load and goes to sleep with out cuddling afterward. I think.