Word: songfulness
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When the Counting Crows didn’t win the Oscar for Best Song in 2005 for “Accidentally in Love” from the movie “Shrek,” I was ambivalent. While I would have loved to see one of my favorite bands recognized for their talent, I didn’t want it to be for a song so purely “pop” that it betrayed the honesty and rawness of their best work. I felt a similar ambivalence toward “Hard Candy...
...What made this concert unique was that Ambulance LTD wasn’t plugging a new album; they took the stage with a four-year-old debut, without a follow-up sitting out on the merch stand. Nonetheless, at the end of their first song, lead singer Marcus Congleton announced that the following was one of their new ones and that the rest of the night they would play a smattering...
...From the first chord of that song, it was obvious to everyone in the room that Ambulance was still on its wheels and had pushed its sound to a whole new level. The crowd began to loosen up, and it’s arguable that there was a greater response to the new, funkier songs than to the tried and true...
...many records too quickly, thus stifling the creative process. Ironically, this is something that Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor grappled with during his tenure at TVT years ago. Now labels can’t release records, period, even if those records boast more creativity in a single song than the entire top twenty combined. Rock isn’t dead; it’s in need of revival. But it’s hard to run the ambulance if you won?...
...your intense love for 50 Cent’s “Candy Shop” begun to dwindle? Do you think there should be even more hip-hop songs written around candy-based sexual metaphors? Well I have good news for all three of you who answered yes to both questions: Lil’ Wayne’s “Lollipop” has all the derivative lyrics and sugary beats you crave, and it’s got that cool vocoder effect that T-Pain always uses. Now isn’t that swell? The video...