Music Tuesdays - Young Blood by the Naked and Famous
This song was in my head so deep it actually became the soundtrack to a dream I had. No joke. What genre or sound is this song? I can't really decide, but I would be somewhat surprised if Scooter didn't like it.
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Oh wow breaking news - The Naked and Famous will be performing on KCRW this morning, I think around 11am PST. Talk about good timing.
ReplyDeleteSo just a note, yes you can listen at the link above, www.kcrw.com.
ReplyDeletePS - Aaron, I hope this song doesn't offend your sensibilities. But it probably will. I'm trying here.
When I started the song, I immediately thought of "Sleepyhead" by Passion Pit. However, when I went back and listened to "Sleepyhead", I'm less inclined to make the comparison (I think it was the underlying beat and high-pitched voice).
ReplyDeleteI'd classify the song as rock (maybe pop rock?) - am I being too generic?
I do enjoy the song, but most likely not as much as you thought I would. I give it 3.5/5 Happy Faces.
Royce - don't give up your goals/ideals for anyone! Didn't the women's empowerment movement of the 70s/80s teach you anything?!?!
ReplyDeleteI feel like you gave it an extra 0.5 Happy Faces out of pity.
ReplyDeleteI felt exactly the same about the Sleepyhead comparison, and you nail the reason - the underlying beat and the pitch of the singing is really really similar. Especially in the first third or so, the song has a really similar mood, but it diverges into something more youth-pop and hopeful from there.
To be fair Scooter, these aren't really "my goals/ideals", I just grab songs that I think are interesting. I don't even particularly love some of my selections, I just do it for the readers. Ok, the reader. Ok, just us 3. And MP sometimes. (An exception being last week's Bon Iver song, which I love.)
I like the song. I love the video. I like that it was a little emotional and nostalgic. I remember several of my randomly destructive experiences as a youth.
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna go listen to it again.
Butcher's knives will cut into a wooden drawer about a quarter inch. Screwdrivers will pierce a rain softened lawn very easily...or land on the side and miss completely. Tar roof shingles fly amazingly well, but make horrible frisbees because they are painful to catch. When you jump off the roof, remember to shoulder roll. When jumping a chain link fence, take a quick look to see if the links are pointed up or rounded over. Rounded over means you can jump it as fast as you can. Pointed up means you take your time. Sometimes hitting the side does fix the TV or a loose wire. A code for the garage door makes it so you don't have to break in through your own window. Don't fill in the wash in a desert...it's there for a reason.
ReplyDeleteAaron that was awesome.
ReplyDeleteCan you give me a little more detail about your last item on there? How did you come to figure that one out?
I've lived in Tucson, Arizona a few times, including a six month stretch in third grade. (My dad was in the Navy and transferred from Chicago to San Diego. I started third grade in Chicago, spent the second half of third grade in Tucson and then started fourth in San Diego) The deserts are named such because of their lack of rainfall. However, when it rains, it comes down really hard, really fast. So much water that roads and properties out in the desert part of Tucson can't handle the amount of water. So there are washes all over the place. A wash is basically just a ditch that looks like a dry river bed, it's usually 2-5 feet deep and can be a small as six feet across or as wide as a few hundred yards across that usually looks like a dry river bed, but when there is a flash flood, it turns into a river. Here is a small one and here is a big one. (In the small wash picture, of the four houses on the right, I lived in the second from the top. The houses on the left had not been built yet so we played in the huge desert that was the backyard. The wash runs along the back of the houses on the left and joins with the larger wash that runs along the bottom of the picture.)
ReplyDeleteWell, my brother and my cousins and I decided to build a dam so that we could fill up a huge hole we dug next to the wash when the rain came. We got in trouble.
That is a fantastic amount of Aaron life detail that I did not know before. Also, that desert is amazingly dry - as a kid, I would have absolutely loved to live in that landscape.
ReplyDeleteHow many rattlesnakes did you run into during your 6 month stint in the Tucson desert?
Coming back to answer your last question. We got many warnings and instructions about rattlesnakes, scorpions and black widows. But I don't remember running into any. One time my dad took us rattlesnake hunting, but I think we were just exploring. I remember as a really young kid 2 or 3, eating rattlesnake. I couldn't really tell the difference between that and chicken.
ReplyDeleteI remember running through the desert as fast as I could around bushes and plants, ducking under branches, jumping into and out of the wash. I'm now surprised I didn't break an ankle.
The one animal that had no fear around humans was a javelina. Any time we barbecued outside, when it got dark we had to stay inside. We would watch packs of javelinas follow the smell of the barbecue right up on to the porch. As a kid, it was kind of cool.