17. February 2010 by Terry.

So, I’ve been kind of all over the place with my song selections here the last month or so with the weather change and what not.   I’ve also been really busy with work since getting promoted.   Trying to shake things up a bit with some new idea’s that I’m not entirely sure how they are going to pan out.   However Pandora being the best software EVER has given me plenty of tunes to listen too along the journey.   For example, I had forgotten how much I enjoyed Hawthorne Heights until I rediscovered them the other day, and for that matter Taking Back Sunday, Story of the Year, and other more rock labeled Emo bands.   In the long run, I guess you could label me as being Emo because of the music, but maybe that just means I’m sensitive….lol   There’s just something about that type of songwriting that takes me back to when music was expressive…something that was still an art form.   Now before someone goes into that whole “the music today is crap” flame, let me explain.   Bands like TBS and SOTY are good bands to me because they actually express what they feel when they write their music.   Its not like half of the idiots out there who just put out an album to put out an album, these bands put out music that I can relate too in not only the overall tone and feel of the “product” itself, but the message behind it.   Rise Against is a perfect example.   And for that reason and that reason alone, my current Playlist is a Pandora list.   I request that you hit it up and get the list for Rise Against, or Hawthorne Heights and TRY to find a song on those lists that you don’t feel even the slightest bit of contempt for……I dare you.peace.

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17. November 2008 by Terry.

Think back….WAY back….lets say…….Circa 1997…I was just a wee little tyke at the ripe old age of 13.   The Lazer was still pumping out the awesome alternative of the time before they bit the dust in one of the most horrid examples of corporate buyouts I think I’ve ever heard of.   Imagine, listening to the ray guns, and ruskabank, and then turning on the station the next day to hear………britney fucking spears.

It was a travesty in all the meaning of the word travesty.   No more local music, no more awesome sets  or concerts…….no more spacin jason!

It was in the midst of all of this funk that I came to love such local bands as those mentioned above as well a few others, personally BFDM, as well as the little gem of a band UFB, to the unannitiated known as Ultimate Fakebook.

Imagine buddy holly, green day, and elvis costello had a child, that child would be UFB.   An awesome band that never got the recognition they truly deserved.   Once signed to a Major Lable (Sony, 2001) they were repackaged to try to fit in with all the bullshit punk/pop acts of the time such as sum41 and good charlote.   That wasn’t UFB.   UFB was good poppy hooks, with interesting vocals, and REAL DRUMS, REAL DRUMS DAMNIT.

I highly suggest you pick up “This will be Laughing Week” if you can find it at your local tradepost or hastings.   And FYI, its also available on Rhapsody.

Peace.

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4. November 2008 by Terry.

Punk Goes Acoustic 2

Because I’m Emo like that….good stuff, good melodies and harmonies….for some reason over the last couple years I’ve come to appreciate a good acoustic or accapella group/song.

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18. October 2008 by Terry.

Some of you know that I am extremely eclectic when it comes to my musical choices.   A lot of it stems from what I was really exposed to growing up.   My sister was always playing what was current and popular so I learned to Identify and love a good pop hook and learned to loath the techno.    My parent’s played a bunch of old style rock and roll like the crickets, buddy holly, etc. , as well as a lot of doo wop and girl groups.   My grandpa played a lot of Sinatra and Jazz, Billie Holiday especially.

So for me to like Billie Holiday or one of her 4th generation off springs such as Norah Jones isn’t all that hard to grasp.   Its half way with me, I love the instrumental arraingments as well as the voice a singer like Billie Holiday has.   Its smooth like velvet and powerful, and can put you back into that time period with just a few sung words.

To anyone who has a thing for slow groovy jazz or just anything from that period of the 30’s and 40’s, I applaud you to please go get some Billie Holiday.   For an updated take on the feeling, go with Norah Jones or Etta James.

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