More Manic Pop Thrills
By SteveThe greatest thing about loving three minute pop songs is that you’re constantly discovering (or re-discovering) the best three minute pop song in the world… and these things only last for days/weeks.
My current favorite is “Tiny Spark” by Brendan Benson. If you follow muzak, you may recognize his name from the coverage of The Raconteurs. He and Jack White are apparently buddies, and co-wrote the “Broken Boy Soldiers” CD. (While I didn’t totally dig that record, a few of the songs are fab.) By himself, Benson is a total pop classicist, kind of a Matthew Sweet type without the guitar wonkiness. If I had anything but rudimentary guitar skills, I’d probably create songs that sounded kind of like this.
And here’s a video for “Tiny Spark,” which is from 2002 or so.
April 27th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
Seeing these things just reminds me that I know less about music than any other individual on the face of the planet.
On the other hand, since I lack a wide knowledge in anything I do (I’m highly inexperienced in most things I haven’t done for the past decade - change is bad, right?) I grab on quickly to anything I know that I do like (classic rock, game music - especially piano sheet music, but also some soundtracks, bought or from installation files - and keygen music primarily) and I make a knowledge base a mile deep that’s just a few inches wide.
Unlike with movies though, I don’t think I’ll ever catch up with music… My only chance is to limit myself to LPs & build an album collection like a crazed, eccentric psychopath.