One of the Best Songs I've ever heard

[Chosen1]

It's pretty old and was made when I was about 13. It's "Closing Time". By Semisonic. Man that song is great:woo: . I know race is not talked about on these boards but I'm black and I love it.

 

[Skel]

I like it too

 

[Docs]

It's a peaceful song. Definitely a good catch.

 

[The Forms]

The drummer from that band wrote a book. I forget his name, but the book was called something along the lines of "so you want to be a rock star."

It's kind of like a road diary. It's about starting the band all the way to when they got dropped from the label. It's a real easy read and fun. You could pick it up at the library and have it read in a weekend no problem. (odd note: turns out the drummer from that band has his undergrad degree from Harvard.)

Yea, that was a real fun song. When I was in a cover band we played it as the last song of the night most nights.

 

[Chosen1]

The drummer from that band wrote a book. I forget his name, but the book was called something along the lines of "so you want to be a rock star."

It's kind of like a road diary. It's about starting the band all the way to when they got dropped from the label. It's a real easy read and fun. You could pick it up at the library and have it read in a weekend no problem. (odd note: turns out the drummer from that band has his undergrad degree from Harvard.)

Yea, that was a real fun song. When I was in a cover band we played it as the last song of the night most nights.

I think it's interesting you were in a cover band. What did you do, play other peoples songs? Sounds cool to me.

 

[sparky0000]

See my post below....Stupid #$*&?

 

[Docs]

Actually, when I was 13, I was a loner submersed into cutting-edge Nickelback and Default at the time (oh wow!) with a crappy p2p program and no taste in music.

I didn't hear that song until about 3 years ago, and I was amazed at the song. I loved it the first time I heard it. Made (and still makes) me happy inside to hear that song.

My...I have changed so much.

 

[sparky0000]

I am surprised that someone hasn't screamed, "AFC!" Maybe there is hope for this place after all.

Music is a personal thing. If you like it, you like it. F*** anyone who tells you that you should or shouldn't like something. At 13 I think you should have heard that song a few thousand times. It is nice until about the 2,093th time you hear it. That was about how many times it was played in a single month back in 1998.

What about Sixpence None the Richer? From about the same period. Great songs that you hear literally everywhere on this planet. I have heard some of their stuff in places where nobody spoke more than a few words of English. Kinda nice to hear something that reminds you of home...uh...well as long as thoughts of home don't last for more than a three minute song.

Here is a group most in the West have never heard of, however they should be big hits. They have opened for REM in Eastern Europe. Very big in the Former Soviet Union. Might surprise you.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=d3w5CAUpjhU
Brainstorm (Prāta Vētra) - Waterfall

Oh yeah, I am sure you have seen the video...but here you go anyway.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=idyyGsNTqfI :flowers:

 

[The Forms]

I think it's interesting you were in a cover band. What did you do, play other peoples songs? Sounds cool to me.

I was in a band for awhile in Charleston SC, but we were three different bands if that makes sense.

One was an original piano based rock group. Really fun stuff (I think there's still some stuff up on myspace.com/theguilttrips )

Another was a cover band. Since it was just me (the drummer) a bass player and a piano/singer we played a lot of piano based covers. We got together because we all love ben folds. So we did a lot of that, but sometimes we covered those angsty girl piano rockers from the late nineties (tori amos). The only rule was you couldn't change the gender of the pronouns (like that one song that starts "I've been a bad, bad girl/and I've been careless with a delicate man")

The last one was a free jazz group. It was like fusion, but it wasn't fusion.

The reason we did this was we could play a club as three different bands in the same night so we didn't have to line up other bands, and we could keep all the money ourselves. We'd do a one hour set of each band over the course of the night.

When you went home you were dead tired, but your wallet was fat, so it was OK.

Sorry for all that information. Music is fun.

 

[Zwitterion]

I actually like this song aswell, It's not the greatest of all time but it does bring back some nostalgia...

 

[Docs]

90s was the time, until this Pop Crap kicked in. Now it's turning into a crossover with rap-wannabes and glamour girls like the Ugly Kitty Kat Dolls, the Bald Headed $lut, Former Meth Addicted Titty Girl, Miss AW Blonde Stick-Waist of the World, Mr Yeah What Ok dude, Akrap, or any number of dimwitted twits that THINK their music sounds good, or that the vast majority of people actually care about their life drama.

There is SOME talent in the current scene of music, but not a lot.

Don't get me started on the Rock side of things. Find an independant or relatively unexposed band and you got something decent, none of this Nickelback follower crap. (I do give them some credit, because I can't play the guitar to the level they can do, but that's it)

 

[Docs]

Even better is the 'This is why I'm hot' song.

Like, OK?!

 

[Brian McGee]

Runaway Train - Soul Asylum

I just rediscovered this song, it's damn good.

 

[Docs]

, awesome song

 

[The Forms]

Then theres the song freshmen by the presidents of the united states of america.

Actually The Verve sang "freshman." And it was an awesome song. Maybe the presidents had a song called that too. But the hit song I remember from about 96 or 97 of that name was by The Verve.

Tonic was a real fun band from about that era.

The first time I heard flagpole sittah I think I peed a little it was so awesome.