Archive for June, 2009
Love, Music, and Memories
June 10th, 2009 Posted by TK
In my continuing exploration of music and the memories that it creates, my study heads to affairs of the heart. If you look at newly released Song Journals, you will see that many people share their feelings about songs and loves they still have or have lost to the sands of time.
These same feelings were evident in the responses I received as I interviewed people from around the globe:
Patti Wood, The Body Language Expert:
In junior high, I remember standing up against the wall at a big school dance feeling so lonely and humiliated because no...
Songs and The Memories They Evoke
June 9th, 2009 Posted by TK
The concept behind a new Web site, Song Journals, which launches today, is that people get a place to share their memories that are associated with a piece of music. This site gave me the idea to ask random people about their song memories and see what I got back. Interestingly enough, I got an amazing response! The response was so vast that I decided to make a three part series out of the concept.
The first part shares responses in which music made a person remember the loss of someone dear to him or her:
The first...
Album Review: Eels, El Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire, 6/2/09
June 9th, 2009 Posted by J Frazzetta
With his first album of new material since 2005’s Blinking Lights and Other Revelations, Mark Oliver Everett, E, has grown out his beard and is ready to rock or not. Like any Eels album, the songs are deeply personal, haunting and often can paint a vivid picture right before your ears.
This album is interesting in how each song trades off. The odd number tracks seem to be the fast rock songs, while even numbers are slower tunes with sad histories, until you get closer to the end of the album where all the songs are upbeat. E seems to portray...
Abnormally Attracted to Sin
June 2nd, 2009 Posted by Gumer Liston
I am not a Tori-phile, but I think I am abnormally attracted to Tori Amos' music. I don't know what exactly it is that's in her music that attracts me, all I know is that I like the way her voice flies across the dark landscape of her songs like a dizzy butterfly trying to find its way through a forest of dark emotions. When I first heard her music in the early 90s, it was like a revelation. It was as if a girl had left the door of her heart ajar so that I could take a peek and discover the little... 
