What I'm Listening to Today: 2/2/04

Submitted by celtchic on Mon, 02/02/2004 - 10:55
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Lord Of the Rings: The Two Towers soundtrack - 9:55 A.M. - Haven't seen the movie. Love the soundtrack. There are a lot of choral pieces that give this a very grand touch.

Joan Osborne - Relish - 3:45 P.M. - The beginning of track 1, "St. Teresa," sends me to a dusty old western town, two gunman facing each other intently staring at each other's faces waiting for the split second that will decide one or the other's fate. Obviously that's not what the song is about, but that is what the instrumentation causes me to see. Joan Osborne has a gorgeously sexy voice. The music is stunning, the notes tell their own stories. "St. Teresa" is probably a song most of you have heard. Song 2, "The Man in the Long Black Coat" has a very gloomy western feel to it, again those two gunmen in the ghost town are back at it. Drum sounds like a heart beat, pounding loudly in one's ear waiting for the sound of the bullet to sound its death siren. Joan Osborne is not country, don't get me wrong. She has a very "western" sound to some of her songs. Oh goodness, just found out "The Man in the Long Black Coat" is a Bob Dylan song. (Zack, I can sense you sneering at me knowing that I enjoyed a song that was indeed written by Frogman Dylan.) "Dracula Moon" - very "blues-ish." She sings: "Where are the bones.... What if the cure is worse than the disease.... Serve me up some pretty pretty people." Dark lyrics, love it! "One of Us," you better know or to the stocks right away you go! "What if God was one of us, just a slob like one of us!" (Who on earth REALLY thinks this is a Christian Rock song? PLEASE get OUTTA here. There is so much more involved than mere religion.) The guitar intro to "Let's Just Get Naked" is utterly cool. OK, so is the song. So whoever said that "One of Us" is Christian Rock might want to check out her other song, "Let's Just Get Naked." They might change their mind quickly, you think? Joan puts on a heavily sultry voice in this song. What to classify her as.... let's see, perhaps blues, folk, rock, western-blues. (Is there even such a category?) Just for fun, what do YOU consider this style of music?