Comment asking to play and I'll give you a letter. Then list five songs you like beginning with that letter, and why you like them.![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
saintsinsatin - "Your letter isssss.... P!"
1.) "Patterns in the Ivy II" – OpethThis song is so moving and sad... it is beauty in itself, and intricately crafted. Opeth is mostly a progressive death metal band but this song is not at all death metal. The lyrics are touching, and the rhythm of the melody is not typical, but it's not one of those songs that tries obnoxiously to have abnormal rhythms. Their advanced abilities as musicians and songwriters are evident in this song—not only technically, but intuitively.
2.) "Psycho Killer" - Talking HeadsI like the live version from Stop Making Sense a -lot- better than the one on the 77 album. What I love about Talking Heads (and it comes through in this song) is how they often have songs with a fairly simple chord structure and the underlying rhythm is fairly constant but the things they put on top of it are what make it amazing. David Byrne is an amazing
3.) "Portrait of Tracy" - Jaco PastoriusBeautiful and incredible bass line. I'm always baffled to think—how the hell could anyone write this song—you've got to be a god to do it, the way all the harmonics fit perfectly. It's one of those songs Jaco wrote that redefined bass playing. It's one of those songs that you -know- could only have been written by someone with extensive patience and love for their instrument. To write something like this you have to know your instrument up and down, inside out, it has to be like your own body but deeper than that, it has to be in you. Well that's Jaco for you—a musical legend. This is the one I played for my Berklee audition as a little bit of a funkier version.
4.) "Push It" – GarbageIt's catchy and feels good and I love Shirley Manson's (the singer) singing style: it is strong, seductive, independent, intimidating, gentle, passionate, and sexy all at once. The song outside of the lyrics meshes perfectly with Shirley Manson's singing style—it's like pop, but with an edge that makes you take it seriously.
5.) "Pardon My Freedom" - !!!the band !!! (often pronounced “chik chik chik”) is a psychadelic pop/funk band, and this is one of their high energy songs that makes you want to be packed in a crowd at one of their shows and it has a lot of sexual energy. And the part where the guy sings “low did I live, in evil I did dwell” works great with the funkiness of the song. Their use of repetition makes the song more powerful, unlike many other songs where repetition just makes it more boring. Because although they repeat, there's always something that picks it up and gives it that extra energy boost to make it great every time.
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