My least favorite Eagles hit
So why did it get stuck in my head? Earworms clearly have very little to do with personal taste. What is it that makes them stick?
MERIT: **
ORIGIN: unknown
PERSISTENCE: ***
Monday, July 6, 2009
Earworm May 4, 2009 - Have You Ever Seen The Rain?/Creedence Clearwwater Revival
They must've had a thousand hits.
And back then my best friends and I snickered at them, considered them just a shade better than bubble-gum music. Today they sound really good. Wonder why. I'll say this - their songs really stick with you.
MERIT:***
ORIGIN: unknown
PERSISTENCE: *** 1/2
And back then my best friends and I snickered at them, considered them just a shade better than bubble-gum music. Today they sound really good. Wonder why. I'll say this - their songs really stick with you.
MERIT:***
ORIGIN: unknown
PERSISTENCE: *** 1/2
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Earworm April 30, 2009 - Blue On Black/Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Did he fall short of his potential, or is he right where he wants to be?
No telling. Terrific lead player and songwriter. Too bad he has to hire lead singers. That combination never works out. But rock on, Kenny.
MERIT: *** 1/2
ORIGIN: unknown
PERSISTENCE: *** 1/2
No telling. Terrific lead player and songwriter. Too bad he has to hire lead singers. That combination never works out. But rock on, Kenny.
MERIT: *** 1/2
ORIGIN: unknown
PERSISTENCE: *** 1/2
Earworm April 29, 2009 - Hark the Herald Angels Sing
It's the middle of spring, for crying out loud!
MERIT: ***
ORGIN: God only knows. Seriously.
PERSISTENCE: **
MERIT: ***
ORGIN: God only knows. Seriously.
PERSISTENCE: **
Earworm April 28, 2009 - Jessie's Girl/Rick Springfield
We would have been better off if he had stuck with soap operas.
I do have to give him an "E" for effort during the 80s. At least he had guitars in his band, and put up a token fight against the onslaught of Flock of Seagulls and the like. But songs like this still make my skin crawl.
MERIT: * 1/2
ORIGIN: Somebody at work mentioned him. Why would they do that?
PERSISTENCE: **
I do have to give him an "E" for effort during the 80s. At least he had guitars in his band, and put up a token fight against the onslaught of Flock of Seagulls and the like. But songs like this still make my skin crawl.
MERIT: * 1/2
ORIGIN: Somebody at work mentioned him. Why would they do that?
PERSISTENCE: **
Earworm April 28, 2009 - Man In The Box/Alice In Chains
They helped Nirvana save rock 'n' roll
Allmusic.com describes Alice In Chains very tidily:
"Drawing equally from the heavy riffing of post-Van Halen metal and the gloomy strains of post-punk, the band developed a bleak, nihilistic sound that balanced grinding hard rock with subtly textured acoustic numbers. They were hard enough for metal fans, yet their dark subject matter and punky attack placed them among the front ranks of the Seattle-based grunge bands."
What more can you ask from a band than that?
MERIT: *** 1/2
ORIGIN: unknown
PERSISTENCE: *** 1/2
Allmusic.com describes Alice In Chains very tidily:
"Drawing equally from the heavy riffing of post-Van Halen metal and the gloomy strains of post-punk, the band developed a bleak, nihilistic sound that balanced grinding hard rock with subtly textured acoustic numbers. They were hard enough for metal fans, yet their dark subject matter and punky attack placed them among the front ranks of the Seattle-based grunge bands."
What more can you ask from a band than that?
MERIT: *** 1/2
ORIGIN: unknown
PERSISTENCE: *** 1/2
Earworm April 27, 2009 - Any Way You Want It/Journey
I can't bear Steve Perry
...and when you look back over the band's long history, it's surprising how many years the band worked without Perry. He kept quitting and then coming back a few years later.
But it seems all of their major hits feature his screeching, desperate, whining "voice", if you want to call it that. You know the way Mary Hart's voice affected Kramer on Seinfeld? Sent him into a seizure? I don't suffer seizures when I hear Perry sing, but I crave oblivion.
I despised the band and all their music for years. Then I saw some local band in a Corpus Christi bar a few years back. Four pieces, the lead singer a bored looking girl in a housedress, barefoot and smoking a cigarette as she sang. They did "Don't Stop Believin'" and I realized for the first time that it was a terrific song. She just owned it.
I started listening to Journey with a new perspective. I still hate all their recordings, but they do have a lot of fine songs. And I realize the only I can't stand them is because of that wretched voice of Perry's. I was so pleased the most recent time he quit when the band replaced him with a Filipino guy they found on YouTube.
Steve: nobody is indispensable.
MERIT: **
ORIGIN: unknown
PERSISTENCE: ***
...and when you look back over the band's long history, it's surprising how many years the band worked without Perry. He kept quitting and then coming back a few years later.
But it seems all of their major hits feature his screeching, desperate, whining "voice", if you want to call it that. You know the way Mary Hart's voice affected Kramer on Seinfeld? Sent him into a seizure? I don't suffer seizures when I hear Perry sing, but I crave oblivion.
I despised the band and all their music for years. Then I saw some local band in a Corpus Christi bar a few years back. Four pieces, the lead singer a bored looking girl in a housedress, barefoot and smoking a cigarette as she sang. They did "Don't Stop Believin'" and I realized for the first time that it was a terrific song. She just owned it.
I started listening to Journey with a new perspective. I still hate all their recordings, but they do have a lot of fine songs. And I realize the only I can't stand them is because of that wretched voice of Perry's. I was so pleased the most recent time he quit when the band replaced him with a Filipino guy they found on YouTube.
Steve: nobody is indispensable.
MERIT: **
ORIGIN: unknown
PERSISTENCE: ***
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