What I haven't told you about my bookstore visits is that usually I am buying a white mocha from the cafe there. So every time I go, I am filling up on 400 calories of sugary goodness. I should stop going to the bookstore. I should stop ordering white mochas. This I should do to help me on my resolutions. So far I haven't done that.
Thievery Corporation came into their own with the ascendancy of W. Maybe we'll get more good music with the dumb Republican elect. Fuck that guy. But we need some more good music. Let's listen and think.
You wouldn't think I would let a month of music breaks go by without a song from my favorite band, Thievery Corporation? Of course not! Here's their most famous tune found on the soundtrack to that Zach Braff film, Garden State. I nodded my head when this came on and was joyous just to hear them. Of course, I didn't have the album (The Mirror Conspiracy) at the time. I've since rectified that. I'm still trying to get their latest. It's not in any stores I have been to and probably has to be ordered through Amazon. This is a reminder to do just that.
Are you planning on any? I'm not except for the weight loss thing and getting healthier. That's it. Or perhaps learning a language in programming or in speaking. Nothing revolutionary just evolutionary.
Can you name the Thievery Corporation tune being covered? I'm calling it: The Outernationalist from their most excellent Richest Man In Babylon album. Am I right?
We are done. The album ends on my favorite tune. You should hear the remix. Thievery did release a remix of some of the songs on this album. Get it as well. Or maybe that will be the next album for a fusillade of music.
One thing about digital delivery of music: no liner notes. There's nothing to read to figure out who the singer was, who wrote the song, or where they sampled the loop. Nothing. Like for this song, who's singing? Is it the same girl from the opening tune? Or is it a whole different person? I would like to know and I am too lazy to check it out on the CD or duckduckgo it.
We're almost done. I hope you've been enjoying the morning music break. I like that you've shared in my favorite album. Thanks for listening. We just have a couple of songs to good. Stay tuned. We're just getting to the good stuff.
I came up with this game that I used to play with Margaux (Or maybe I didn't play this game with her, but I did come up with a game). It was centered around bands, their discography, and your own knowledge of. You were to think of a band and focus on their songs. Once you focused on a band, you would say, "You know {insert band name here}. No, their other song." That should conjure up which song you're talking about amongst the players. Most of the time you know which song is being thought about, but other times, depending on the band, it becomes difficult.
I came up with this game because of Cold Play. "You know Cold Play. No, their other song." I bet you now know which song I am talking about.
We turn the corner and get to the home stretch of the album, several songs that are some of Thievery Corporations best. It starts with the title track, The Richest Man in Babylon. Once here, the album moves to its great conclusion. Stick around, it'll only get better.
I'm left to wonder how close these songs ripped an posted to YouTube are to the one on the original CD. This version sounds slightly sped up. A check on iTunes finds it 6 seconds shorter. Now I wonder if all the other tunes from this album have been altered from the original. That's okay. As long as it moves your soul I'll take it. Good music is good music.
We're onto the part of the album which I call the fly by states. Sometimes I listen to the songs. Sometimes I don't. When I let the iPod play, when they come on, I won't skip ahead. Yet, they all sound the same. Like I said previous, there's a lot of latin rhythms on this album.
The death of Flash can't happen soon enough, but you're still stuck with it. In fact, if you're viewing this page, Flash is probably killing your browser.
For that, I apologize.
It's because of me not you. I'm not writing enough posts to fill the gaps between the morning music break. I know that I wanted to write more at least a post a day in December. Except the posts all relate to that Thievery Corporation release from 2002. (Whoa! I thought it was 2003 release.) I was gonna put some filler in between, but I don't want filler. I want well written posts on subjects that are worth writing about. Plus, link or quotes of the day. Yet, all I got are static YouTube videos of the cover to The Richest Man in Babylon.
If I ever expected you to have heard any songs on this album, I would expect it to be this tune, "All That We Perceive." I think they had it on heavy rotation in any Apple Store back in the mid aughts. Back when the iTunes was first released. You could've found Thievery Corporation all over that iTunes version. They were the iTunes darling back then.
Now let me admit right here, for the longest time I couldn't stand to hear this tune. It being popular (in my mind) rubbed me the wrong way. This is my band. Why should you listen to them if you've never heard of them before? Defensive much? Yeah, I was a while ago, but not anymore.
You've got to listen to this tune. Listen to this album. Listen to this band. They freaking rock!
Of course you'll be hearing this band for another week. I'm short of half way through the album. And after hearing that, maybe you'll feel apprehensive to hear another Thievery Corporation song. We still haven't gotten to my favorite song.
Continuing on from yesterday's music break, here's the second part of the tune. It's not the second part but they both flow very well together. Every time I hear this song, I hear the first verse as asking, "Whose bagel's offer hope?" Now why are they singing about bagels? Is this some kind of hidden message, but said aloud? I bet you that ain't the real lyrics. Someone, anyone, get on this and tell me what that lyric was.
