[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSsiS-v6_6M[/youtube]
Oh Kee Pa, sit back, hit “play” on that youtube song…and RELAX.
You’re Welcome.
You have no idea how grating this tune is for me. And that’s only because I was 11 when it was Number 1 on all of the am radio stations I used to be attached to for my rock and roll fix for almost a year, or so it seemed. Everytime I wanted to hear something rockin by Chuck or Elvis, this song would be playing instead.
What’s interesting is that the music was written by Max Steiner, one of the most prolific movie composers of the 30s - 50s. Some of his most notable flicks:
Score to King Kong (1933)
Score to The Garden of Allah (1936)
Score to The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
Score to Gone With the Wind (1939)
Score to All This and Heaven Too (1940)
Score to Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1940)
Score to City for Conquest (1940)
Score to Cassablanca (1942)
Score to Now Voyager (1942)
Score to Mildred Pierce (1945)
Score to The Big Sleep (1946)
Score to Johnny Belinda (1948)
Score to Key Largo (1948)
Score to Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Score to The Lady Takes a Sailor (1949)
Score to Operation Pacific (1951)
Score to The Last Command (1955)
Score to The Searchers (1956)
Score to Helen of Troy (1956)
Score to Band of Angels (1957)
Theme from A Summer Place (1959) Selections from A Summer Place
I relax’d. I’ve heard that tune before, maaaaaaan. It’s like, it reminds me of some kinda summertime place I may or may not have from my memory of yore.
LOL. How funny. I can definitely see this tune being jammed down people’s throats when it came out. It’s always funny how those who were around when a song came out often have a different opinion of them than people who weren’t born yet. Kind of like me with Nirvana songs…I’m sick of almost all of them at this point but only because they were everywhere when they came out.
Either way…listen and Relax.
Yep! I’m okie dokie w/Nirvana cuz I was mostly indifferent at the time. Now I really like hearing 'em, and I think I’m bound to truly check them out someday. They single-handedly (or, maybe double-handedly if you count Pearl Jam’s role) took down the ugly monster that had become corporate hair metal.
And replaced it with this “we don’t need to know how to play instruments or sing to be a rock band” era that has followed them. I’ve been saying for a while that while Nirvana themselves was a good band, their influence on music has been horrible. I’d rather have the hair metal.
Ha, yep. At the time I couldn’t have been more underwhelmed by the guitarists especially. The lyrics even bugged me because they complained so much, and were so damn serious that it took the fun out of loud rock music. I don’t think I really accepted Pearl Jam until their second record, and the Chili Peppers and Nirvana I just never got into at all. Honestly I was too busy shedding metal in favor of Phish (& Rush & Yes before that), who was way more musically and lyrically interesting than any of the early nineties alternative/grunge shit.
I don’t blame the grunge movement for the downfall of the industry actually though. It’s really the greed of the business minds in the music industry that’s ruined it, just like it ruins everything else. Least that’s my take … the more they tried to milk the industry the more lame everything got.
Metal was cool at first, when it was Van Halen & Black Sabbath, man. Over time the suits formulize what the kids will buy, until mainstream music is unrecognizably homogenized. By the end you got Warrant & Skid Row. Maybe they’re more organic than some of the others, I don’t know, I was sick of how generic and formulized it was … such a joke.
… Pearl Jam and Nirvana exploded in part because they were genuine & honest by comparison, that’s what I think. What a breath of fresh air, when artists took back the music. I can’t stand it when I can FEEL the sales pitch from the top, you know? You can feel that in all that formulized late-80s metal, and it’s no better than NKOTB when it’s like that. Get your sales pitch out of my rock and roll.
/rant. ::plays Percy Faith youtube to unwind::
Played this during the processional at my wedding a few weeks ago. One of my favorite intrumental pieces from the 20th century.
The video is a murmuration of starlings.
The audio is Pachelbel’s Canon in D
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eakKfY5aHmY&feature=related[/youtube]
I saw one of these two weeks ago on the drive back from MD at dusk. It wasn’t nearly as big as this one, but Silent in the Morning was playing on the system as I passed it, and yeah, it makes it easier to believe in God when that happens.
^Oh, I LOVE that song. Fantastic choice!
And, shockingly, I’ve actually seen some of these humongous flocks flying around Detroit these past few weeks when I’ve been driving home from work. I couldn’t believe there was that many especially in the city. I rolled down the window and waved and waved.
I’ll throw another one out there. Barenaked Ladies (ignore the weird video…the original youtube I had here died)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCNuKV_gp5w[/youtube]
REEEELLLAAAXXXX…
^^ BNL? Vocalist sounds like Cat Stevens
^ Wow. Had no idea. I like it. I think I’ll have to get that.
How 'bout some Portishead?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57C_eWa2bgo[/youtube]
^nice.
^^^When You Dream, the last song on Stunt, probably BNL’s best album, features Steven Page on vocals. Steven has great pipes, but alas he left the band in 2009 to live a more mundane life with his wife and family somewhere around Syracuse NY. He found his Oko and turned his back on the band after creation of an impressive collection of music. I bet he’ll be back again some day.
Trey must be very aware, impressed or otherwise subconsciously affected by Pachelbel and his Canon in D. Listen to it again and then play Let Me Lie. The rounds of many of Phish’s songs have the long, slow, repetitive crescendos in them, like Slave, Hood, et al.
Ahh, but was Bolero inspired by what Ravel knew of the Canon in D? And in the neverending stream of the collective unconscious, Anastasio replicates Pachelbel in Let Me Lie, as deference to Ravel?
\o/ Delayed responses! \o/
I’ll second that “best album” hype. I’m not too big on them but I love this one.
I’ll admit I’m completely in the dark on Portishead. Is a lot of their stuff like this? I could always use more relaxing stuff.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VoJMUpzAyI[/youtube]
Off my one and only Beck album “Sea Change.” LOVE the string arrangements on this. The album is loaded with chill stuff like this…it’s unlike anything else I’ve heard him do. Gorgeous stuff. REEEEELLLLAAXXX…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwVGPtNTYVQ[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFulw-T-KPI[/youtube]
i was hoping someone here would get/be into it! its like the first thing that comes to mind when “relax” is mentioned 
in fact, the first time i listened to “just for a day” i was driving home after work unaware of how powerful a sonic sedative i had just inserted into my cd player… fell asleep at the wheel sitting at a stoplight just a few miles down the road! 
Wow, nice work on the Slowdive stuff. I was digging Goldfrapp too. I definitely needed to REEEELLLAX after that stressful Lions game today.
And it would be a crime if I didn’t post this which I know I’ve posted here before. One of the most beautiful songs I can think of. I LOVE the moment around 3:45 when the “jam” in the middle segues right into the chorus.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0BRhBft-Xc[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU2qGgYDf2Q[/youtube]
Really digging this one lately. Love the backup singers.
This thread rulz. How have I missed this? Unfortunately I have nothing to add at the moment 