All 6 entries tagged Music

Reflections

About an hour ago I was motivated to start reading through my blog from the very beginning. I’m very concious of the way the number of entries I’ve made since leaving Warwick has tailed off significantly. I never intended to “stop” commenting on the world because frankly I have too many opinions for it to be good for me. I guess the amount of time and impetus for blogging has gone away. Whereas when within the Warwick bubble you have a small community within the world, a group of 15000 people united by a common factor, in the outside world everything is a much bigger place, with many more “grown up” calls on your time. I assume my award for stating the bleeding obvious should be on the way shortly at this point…

So anyway, I’ve been reading through my entries from the very beginning and what’s really interesting is that reading through all of the posts I can pick out a history of my last two years at Warwick but in much more detail than expected. I can see where I was spending a lot of time with one group of friends or another. The sheer variety in what I was doing every day at uni is incredible, as is the articulation in my posts. I honestly think my quality of English has degraded significantly in comparison. Early posts talk about philosophy (Is the world black and white, or is there a grey area?), about music (I’m also enjoying listening to all the random music tracks that I referenced my life to), work with societies and of course friends. I always remembered that my blog was pathetically self serving and worryingly emotional. Surprisingly it’s not anywhere near as bad as I remembered… either this means I remember it being far worse, or else I blocked out whole sections of my mind when blogging.

When the events you blog about involve more people than just yourself, it’s much easier to get two way communication happening again. I particularly like comments like this on:

Do you speak in code for security reasons or just for fun?
Laura.

This is of course something I still do today and it’s mostly because I’ve learned a whole new language of code (Rolls-Royce) and therefore I am able to be geeky on a whole new level. It’s great just to go back and laugh at everything that’s gone before, and the best bit about all of it? I don’t regret a moment, not even those self pitying moments, or the times when I was less happy. I truly loved Warwick, especially the last two years, and I respect it for the education it gave me. Through my blog I can see my development and understanding in so many different ways, in music, in sound, in computer technology in people. Interesting then that my writing abilities have gone the opposite direction…

Trips down memory lane can be fun, and shouldn’t be indulged too often, but I will be making much of the early blog available to signed in readers only. I can’t help feeling a corporate blogging system might help companies develop more of a community atmosphere inside though, because that diversity and bit beyond “every day” is so rewarding. I’m going to read the rest of my blog now…

Christopher Hinds : 02 Feb 2008 14:38 |  Tags: Blogging Life Past Music |  Comments (3) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Time for new music

It’s time that I changed the music in the car, the same CDs are no longer holding appeal and so I’ve begun running through iTunes looking for options to put CDs together. My iTunes collection stands at 69.64Gb/7 Days, 18 Hours, 1 minute and 19 seconds/2634 tracks. I’ve taken out all the tracks I usually put on CDs which means there’s no Bruce Hornsby, no Springsteen, no “You get what you give” by the New Radicals and so on. Only trouble is I’m down to 315 songs that I’d like to make into CDs, which is err 17 CDs… I need to get it down to 6… decisions, decisions.

Christopher Hinds : 22 Apr 2007 20:32 |  Tags: Music |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Out Song

Writing about web page http://taylorswift.com/

I was ridin’ shotgun with my hair undone in the front seat of his car…
He’s got a one-hand feel, on the steering wheel, the other on my heart
I look around, turn the radio down, he says “baby is something wrong?”
I say nothing I was just thinking how we don’t have a song…
and he says…

CHORUS
Our song is the slamming screen door,
Sneakin’ out late, tapping on your window
When we’re on the phone and you talk real slow
Cause it’s late and your mama don’t know
Our song is the way you laugh
The first date “man, i didn’t kiss her and I should have”
And when I got home…before I said amen
Asking God if he could play it again

I was walking up the front porch steps after everything that day
Had gone all wrong or been trampled on and lost and thrown away
Got to the hallway, well on my way to my lovin’ bed…
i almost didn’t notice all the roses and the note that said…

REPEAT CHORUS

I’ve heard every album, listened to the radio
Waited for something to come along
That was as good as our song….

Cause our song is the slamming screen door
Sneakin’ out late, tapping on his window
When we’re on the phone and he talks real slow
Cause it’s late – and his mama don’t know
Our song is the way he laughs
The first date “man, I didn’t kiss him, and I should have”
And when I got home, before I said amen
Asking god if he could play it again

I was riding shotgun with my hair undone
In the front seat of his car
I grabbed a pen and an old napkin
and I…wrote down our song

Christopher Hinds : 25 Mar 2007 19:16 |  Tags: Country Music New Talent |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Telling tastes?

In the last three days I’ve watched three concerts all the way through – Bruce Springsteen Live in NYC, Keith Urban – Livin’ Right Now and Phil Collins – Live in Berlin. I remain struck by how amazing all three are live in concert and how badly I want to see them. Telling that I’m more impressed by the male artists than female, the Madonna concert just doesn’t compare musically though is more visually dramatic, while Savage Garden are kinda halfway house in a way. Maybe I like my music male, or I dream of being Keith Urban style Rugged?

On another note both Emma and I remember our dreams more when sleeping in Skipton – is this the house of dreams?

Christopher Hinds : 06 Nov 2006 21:06 |  Tags: Music |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Nearly a missed opportunity

Writing about web page http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk

I nearly thought I’d missed the chance to see Springsteen with the E-Street Band, what with this being a fairly expensive month for me, and the concerts in London, Sheffield and Birmingham. However it’s the Seeger Sessions tour not an ESB tour. I like the album from the samples I’ve heard, though I’ve not bought it yet. I don’t like it enough to pay £55 to see it in concert though. Come on Bruce, do a tour with the ESB again. I’ll pay you £90 a night for that.

Christopher Hinds : 30 Oct 2006 16:34 |  Tags: Bruce Springsteen Music Sound |  Comments (2) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

She's a good girl…

Writing about web page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Fallin%27

I first heard this song on Keith Urban’s Livin’ Right Now DVD and it’s just awesome, I love the evocative lyrics and music… so here it is to share. The original artist was of course the wonderful Tom Petty, hence the first link. Here are the lyrics…

She’s a good girl, she loves her mum
Love Jesus and America too
She’s a good girl, she’s crazy about Elvis
Loves horses, and her boyfriend too

It’s a long day, livin’ in Reseda
There’s a freeway running thru’ the yard
I’m a bad boy, ‘cos I don’t even miss her
And I’m a bad boy for breaking her heart.

Yeah I’m freeeeee
Free fallin’ (Fallin’)
Yeah I’m free yeah
Free fallin’ (falling)

All the vampries, walkin’ through the valley
Move west down Ventura boulevard
All the bad boys are standing in the shadows,
And the good girls, they’re home with broken hearts

Yeah I’m freeeeee
I’m free fallin’ (Fallin’)
Yeah I’m free yeah
Free fallin’

Free falling I’m a free falling I’m a…
Free falling I’m a free falling I’m a.

I wanna glide down over Mulholland
I wanna write her name in the sky
I’m gonna free fall out into nothing
Gonna leave this world for a while

And I’m free
(Falling I’m a free falling I’m a…)
Free Fallin’ (Fallin’)
(Free falling I’m a free falling I’m a…)
Yeah I’m free
(Falling I’m a free falling I’m a…)
Free Fallin’
(Free falling I’m a free falling I’m a…)

Free falling I’m a free falling I’m a…
Yeah I’m free
Free Fallin’ (Fallin’)
Oh
(Free falling I’m a free falling I’m a…)
Free fallin’
(Free falling I’m a free falling I’m a…)
I’m free
(Free falling I’m a free falling I’m a…)
Free fallin’
(Free falling I’m a free falling I’m a…)
(Free falling I’m a free falling I’m a…)
Free fallin’

Wonderful. Did I mention the bass line kicks ass? No? Well it does. Get this song. Listen to it on repeat.

Christopher Hinds : 02 Oct 2006 19:55 |  Tags: Lyrics Music |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem