So late last week I came across a short film about Elliott Smith, by Jem Cohen entitled "Lucky Three", basically he came out to Portland to hang out with Elliott and have him play a few songs for his film, its very obvious that Elliott is not used to being filmed, nor does it seem like he was very impressed with the camera being there, but that is no surprise, Elliott Smith has always been very modest with his work, long story short, Elliott Smith plays 3 of my many favorite songs by him, "Between the bars" "Angeles" and "Baby Britain", enjoy.
"Elliott Smith - 'Thirty Three'
And now for the highlight of my weeks findings, last night I was...well I don't really recall what I was doing exactly, but I was sitting at my desk, when an esurance commercial came on, "Because it feeeels gooood", I had heard it before but never really taken into consideration of how good the song really was, so I dug around and found out it was a man named Kazutaka Nomura, also known as 'PWRFL POWER', which I think the name alone is genius, but his music its quite fitting for such a clever name, I actually described it today to my friend Les as, "uncleverly-clever", because he doesn't unnecessarily try to be clever, which is a big downfall in a lot of songwriters these days, trying to come up with something clever and unique, and end up making something ridiculous and not enjoyable, he sings about simple things such as meeting a girl and thinking she is beautiful, but she doesn't know how to hold chop sticks, which for some reason, makes me think this really happened, and thats what I love about his music, it sounds more like a story put to music more than it does an orchestrated song, and in that I mean, he doesn't try and rhyme, or use the same amount of words in every verse, point being, check him out, and you will not be disappointed, and if you are, please don't ever return to my blog again because you won't enjoy anything I recommend here...
Click here to listen to PWRFL POWER, message him and tell him I recommended him in my blog =).
Well, I am about to get off work, and I am realizing how boring this must be for anyone who isn't as bored as I am, I hope you found some sort of entertainment out of this, and if you did, subscribe to my blog either vis RSS feed or just as a blog its self.
I need a fucking cigarette..
-Eric
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Now playing: Elliott Smith - Everything Reminds Me of Her
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Now playing: Modest Mouse - A Life Of Artic Sounds
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Now playing: Ugly Casanova - Ice On The Sheets
1 comment:
I kind of really hate the fact that I find music and think about how you're going to tell me about it before I think of a clever way to present it. Haha. Is it weird that I read this? I don't really care. Honestly, I find what you have to say about music very interesting.
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