Comments on: New Music Monday

By: Justin Roth

Justin Roth — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:15:13 +0000

Hi! Saw your post about Antje playing Dead Horse Trampoline. Yes, I did record that song as well and Antje is a friend of mine. She told me she learned it from my album, but it was written by my friend Christopher Smith (www.christophersmithmusic.com). It’s a fun song, albeit twisted. You can hear my version at http://www.myspace.com/justinrothmusic.

All the best,
Justin

By: twoblueday

twoblueday — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:05:55 +0000

I looked her up on iTunes and sampled a number of her songs, I heard one or two I’ll probably purchase.

Here in Central Florida we have so little opportunity to hear good acoustic acts. You have a tremendous advantage in the Boston area (which I luckily get to share to a degree in my Cape Cod summers).

Did I ever talk about my personal response to music/lyrics? It goes something like this: when I hear a song for the first time, with few exceptions, it either resonates with me or doesn’t. The lyrics have little to do with it (at least at that stage), it’s just the whole piece. The gestalt, if you will. Once I take the song to my heart, the lyrics sometimes, but not always, increase the song’s appeal. Now (I’m gonna get bogged down here), the singer’s voice, expressed through the words, is a big part of that initial impression (as are the non-verbal vocalizations). I think that the words must get to me at a sort of subliminal level, because when I listen more closely later, I seldom am disappointed by the lyrics.

Did that make any sense?

By: Bo

Bo — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:36:06 +0000

So is anyone else singing this post’s title to the tune of “New Moon on Monday” by Duran Duran?

By: liv

liv — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:49:33 +0000

thanks for bringing in some new!!

By: mrschili

mrschili — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:37:29 +0000

I know, Seester, huh? For me, it was “if the night isn’t dark enough, the moon won’t glow.”

NM, I’m caught between being sorry for you and congratulating you for recognizing that you DID pay for this ride. At the risk of sounding trite (because all this sounds trite when you’re neck-deep in it), I really do believe that it’s true that there’s no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. What are you going to do with this really big gift?

Cajunvegan, she DOES sound like an old favorite, doesn’t she? This is a sound of which I never grow tired….

By: cajunvegan

cajunvegan — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:09:11 +0000

Thank you. I love discovering new artists who sound like old faves. She is refreshing and mood-altering.

By: nakedmessenger

nakedmessenger — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:36:48 +0000

Amen… How very, very appropriate for me in my spinning merry-go-round. Wanna get off, but I paid for this ride. Nothing like running in circles to bring us back to where we began. At least I scored seat on the horse with no head. Fuck me for dropping my ice cream.

By: saintseester

saintseester — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:34:31 +0000

Wow. What a line “The Truth would be worthless if no one lied.”

This posting made up for the past two days, don’t cha think?