Day #19 of the 30 Day Music Meme
Aug. 22nd, 2020 08:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatDay #19 of 30 Day Music Meme.
Okay I've a self-imposed rule - I don't post any song that I've seen someone else post already. And wendahl, god love her, posted Both Sides Now, and a good cover of it to boot, and that's the song I'd plotted and planned on posting, also the Joanie Mitchell pick for this meme. Now, alas, I have to find something else. I could use it...but...I've decided to find something else.
For a while I debated using Stephen Stills hit "For What It's Worth" but, I'm not sure it quite fits. Also considered Mitchell's The Circle Game, but I don't really like the song, it kind of grates after a bit.
So...I'm going with...this song, make of it what you will.
As an aside, sometimes I feel the world around me and online is a reflection of this Song. Actually been feeling this song for a while now. I wish for the first song, but the second feels more and more real each day.
Make of that what you will as well.
Okay I've a self-imposed rule - I don't post any song that I've seen someone else post already. And wendahl, god love her, posted Both Sides Now, and a good cover of it to boot, and that's the song I'd plotted and planned on posting, also the Joanie Mitchell pick for this meme. Now, alas, I have to find something else. I could use it...but...I've decided to find something else.
For a while I debated using Stephen Stills hit "For What It's Worth" but, I'm not sure it quite fits. Also considered Mitchell's The Circle Game, but I don't really like the song, it kind of grates after a bit.
So...I'm going with...this song, make of it what you will.
As an aside, sometimes I feel the world around me and online is a reflection of this Song. Actually been feeling this song for a while now. I wish for the first song, but the second feels more and more real each day.
Make of that what you will as well.
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Date: 2020-08-23 05:21 am (UTC)On the second tune-- One of the hallmarks of a truly classic song is that other artists can cover it, and not only make it their own, but sometimes totally reinvent it, and make it work. I'm unfamiliar with this fellow, but his version of Simon's song was just stunning, and then a great video to go with it.
This is one of the things I've really missed since my friends all moved away from town in my late 20's and early 30's-- we'd constantly be turning each other on to new music!
Excellent choice, 'kat!
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Date: 2020-08-23 12:25 pm (UTC)No. I don't remember you even discussing him.
The song is from the film The Squid and the Whale, which I have the soundtrack to. That's where I got the song from. The singer's name I forget. I didn't know it was sung by him at all when I thought of it. In fact I never can remember the name of the song, just a few lyrics. What I remember is the film - The Squid and the Whale - and the song, or the lyric that "the world is insane...and I just want people to get along".
On the second tune-- One of the hallmarks of a truly classic song is that other artists can cover it, and not only make it their own, but sometimes totally reinvent it, and make it work. I'm unfamiliar with this fellow, but his version of Simon's song was just stunning, and then a great video to go with it.
Oh, thank you. I thought most people had seen it? It was going the rounds a few years back - when his song was chosen by a figure skating team at the last Olympics.
we'd constantly be turning each other on to new music!
Yes, I like that about the meme as well. Which is why I'm trying not to post a song someone else has previously posted and am kind of instilling that rule?
You didn't introduce me to Bert, but you did to Ellen McInwale - who'd I'd forgotten, and beergoodfoamy introduced me to The Cowboy Junkies, while wendahl did to Holly Near, and dlgood to Betty Davis. So...