Third Day is my favorite band of all time. They have been for around 14 years or so. Well, I went to their blog today, and they featured a video that I had put up on Youtube of a band I used to play with covering a Third Day song.
They have been doing a feature called “Fourth Day”, where they post a video of someone covering a Third Day song. Today featured my video! So, go to their blog and check it out.
In my attempt to have a catchy weekly blog post thing that has matching first letters in the title, I have decided to start what I am calling “Video Vednesday”. Say it like the count from Sesame Street: Viiiideo Veeeednesday, ah ah ah”. Okay, I have de-railed. For those of you that are miraculously still reading, here we go:
Here is my cover of Derek Webb’s “I Want a Broken Heart”. By the way, if you watch Grey’s Anatomy, you heard one of Derek’s songs a few episodes ago. Anyways, enjoy!
Hear me out on this one please. This new band is actually really good, dispite how scary that dude in the middle looks. These guys and gal have a sound very similar to Rancid, Roots Radicals era. It’s punk rock, but not the pop-punk that seems to be popular. Heck, the song”Even Sleeping” has a bit of ska in it. These folks are the real deal. And if that wasn’t enough, the 14 song cd on Amazon MP3 is only $7.99.
With super-energetic performances that make the songs actually fun to listen to, and influences from east coast to west coast, old school to new wave (I can even forgive the one song that borderlines on ska), they rock. The melodies are catchy and the vocals are bold, with great interplay between the male and female voices, as the singing duties are shared by David and Lee Marie. Standout songs include “LCM,” “Homemade Valentine” and “Ditches.” But really, if you like punk, this is an album not to be missed.
After Edmund is a new band that recently released their debut cd entitled “Hello”. Imaging if Coldplay rocked 10 times harder then they currently do, and you might have an idea of what these guys sound like.
Also, I went to college with some of these guys. I was in a college band with Mitch, the lead singer, so not only do I like the record becasue it ROCKS, but I am also friends with some of them. So, go listen to some samples of their tracks, and buy their cd. It’s one of those albums where the whole album is solid and flows nicely together.
I’m a big fan of music, and even more of a fan of picking apart lyrics and relating them to my own life. So, let’s look at one of my favorite songs ever…
Here is a video of me covering Damien Rice’s song “Cannonball”. Also, here are the lyrics, followed by my thoughts on it:
there’s still a little bit of your taste in my mouth
there’s still a little bit of you laced with my doubt
it’s still a little hard to say what’s going on
there’s still a little bit of your ghost your weakness
there’s still a little bit of your face i haven’t kissed
you step a little closer each day
that I can´t say what´s going on
stones taught me to fly
love, it taught me to lie
life, it taught me to die
so it’s not hard to fall
when you float like a cannonball
there’s still a little bit of your song in my ear
there’s still a little bit of your words i long to hear
you step a little closer to me
so close that I can´t see what´s going on
stones taught me to fly
love taught me to lie
life taught me to die
so its not hard to fall
when you float like a cannon..
stones taught me to fly
love taught me to cry
so come on courage, teach me to be shy
‘cos its not hard to fall,
and I don’t want to scare her
its not hard to fall
and i don’t want to lose
its not hard to grow
when you know that you just don’t know
Have you ever acted a certain way for no other reason than the fact that it just seemed right to you? Specifically related to love and relationships, have you ever had feelings for someone or done something out of love (or what you thought was love) that just made no sense at all?
To me, that’s what this song says at parts. “Stones taught me to fly…”. Stones are heavy and don’t fly. It doesn’t make sense for something to teach you about flying that would not fly well at all. “Love taught me to lie” and “life taught me to die” are the same thing. It’s almost like one extreme taught him to do the other extreme.
So maybe in this song, he has done things in a relationship that maybe he shouldn’t have done. Things that seemed right at the time, but might not have made sense, and it has caused a rift in that relationship. And maybe by the end, he wants the courage that led him to do whatever, to make him shy. Only then will he not do it again.
If you are one of the 20+ MILLION people that watch American Idol every week, then you know who I am talking about. This dude has more talent than any contestant in American Idol history. Not that I have watched every American Idol, because I haven’t by a long shot. But he is certainly better than anyone who has ever won the competition (in my opinion, of course).
He’s got a pretty good voice, but he takes control on stage, as if he is already a rock star. It’s important as a musician to look like you know what you’re doing on stage, and he certainly does. Plus, his arrangements of all of the songs he has sung so far have been brilliant.
This will show my soft side, but o well. This is one of those songs that gives me chills every time I hear it, so I thought I would share the video with you. Enjoy it!
Here is an update from a previous story I reported on. FTA:
Rose said he was “surprised and very happy” about the offer, but denied the record label or himself were involved in the pledge.
If this ends up being true and it happens, maybe it will be the swift kick in the pants Axl needs in order to get that dang album out. It’s been too long since the last one!
* If Axl Rose releases the long-awaited new G&R album ‘Chinese Democracy’ in 2008.
Really? Yes, really. From the article:
In an unprecedented show of solidarity with Axl, everyone in America, except estranged GNR guitarists Slash and Buckethead, will receive a free can of Dr Pepper if the album ships some time — anytime! — in 2008. Dr Pepper supports Axl, and fully understands that sometimes you have to make it through the jungle before you get it right.
Being that this is from cnn.com, I am assuming it’s true. I guess someone high up at Dr. Pepper is a huge GNR fan. I am looking forward to the new cd AND the free Dr. Pepper. Come on Axl, what are you waiting for??
Foo Fighters front man and ex-Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl throws his hat into the ring to run for President of the United States. This is a pretty humorous read. FTA:
On what will bring America together: “I think that what the country needs now is a good, smoky barbecue—family style, at least once a week, winter months included. It’s important that people bring it back to cooking over the fire as a family unit. You know what I do when I sit around a grill with my family? I talk. We talk. It’s something about that hickory smoke that brings my family together—and friends. And that’s where I really get to share and learn with my family and fellow Americans. It’s around that grill. It’s two beers, it’s three beers, it’s four beers, it’s 10 beers. This is what America needs—beer, and barbecue. It’s the red, white and barbecue.”
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Foo Fighters front man and ex-Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl throws his hat into the ring to run for President of the United States. This is a pretty humorous read. FTA:
