I've felt for some time that the music I post on my personal tumblelog is often lost in the mix.
I like to share.
I spent 10 years in the music industry and I've been an avid consumer and collector of music from almost every genre and decade since I was a wee child.
What I post here may be familiar or foreign, old or new. Good music is just good music to me.
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All posts from June 11, 2008
The Stone Roses - Love Spreads
I could fill up some space by harping on about the wretched interpersonal and legal wranglings of this band, but I wouldn’t want to detract from the groove.
From their appropriately titled 1994 comeback album, ‘Second Coming’, Love Spreads is my favourite Stone Roses tune, ever.
John Squire is channelling Jimmy Page, the rhythm section is relentless and the chorus/refrain is anthemic.
What more could you ask?
Play count: 36
The Beatles - Hey Bulldog
I’ve always been puzzled as to why this isn’t one of The Beatles’ better known songs. Possibly because it appears on the soundtrack to Yellow Sumbarine [1969], which isn’t exactly in the stratosphere of coolness when it comes to Beatles’ albums. Interestingly, this song didn’t make the final cut of the animated film, but the scene in which it was featured was later included in the film’s 1999 re-release.
Hey Bulldog is one of my favourite Beatles songs. It’s also one of the few Beatles recordings that revolves around a piano riff. And what a riff it is.
On a personal note, once upon a time I sang this song on the street for money. Good times.
John Lennon called this song, “a good sounding record that means nothing”.
That pretty much sums it up.
Play count: 51
