My iPod #131: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Breaking the Girl

I'm very happy. Today marks the first time I make a blog from my new laptop.

No more will I have to suffer with the forever slow and freezing mess that is the family desktop. If you guys want a laptop, ASUS is the way to go. Forget Dell. My sister has a Dell laptop that's basically falling apart. Whether that's due to the manufacturer or if my sister abused it I'm not sure. I know that I'm not messing this mine up though.

Now with that intro out of the way, is this my first Red Hot Chili Peppers post? Because I'm pretty sure I haven't touched upon one song of theirs. They probably don't have a lot of songs beginning with the letter 'A' that I know of. Except for "Aeroplane" of course.

So... Red Hot Chili Peppers..... Ah! "Fight Like a Brave". That was the first song I'd ever heard by them, thanks to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3. When they released "By the Way" in 2002, I had no idea that it was the band who wrote that song until I actually looked at the in-game menu.

In 2002, I wasn't really into music. Being six/seven at the time, I was either incessantly up at early hours in the morning to watch Cartoon Network or Thomas the Tank Engine videos. 2006 was the year that I can actually remember the build up towards a Red Hot Chili Peppers album, which we all know is the double album "Stadium Arcadium".

I can remember it now, the video for "Dani California" premiered at midnight on Channel 4. It was then played every hour on MTV2 the next day. My sister and I liked it. She had a friend who liked the band, who then gave her the "Greatest Hits" album. This is where "Breaking the Girl"comes in.

The song became a favourite of my sister's. I recall not liking the song as much as the others though. I thin it was the fact that amongst the others on the compilation, this was a tune that I had actually never heard before. Even when I did listen to it, I found it... boring.

However when I downloaded "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" a few months ago, I found myself wailing along to the chorus and air drumming to the trash-can percussion in the instrumental break. I loved it. "Breaking the Girl" isn't boring at all. The eleven-year old me was a silly child. If you are going to write a song about a meaningful relationship that went wrong and you feel as if you are to blame, you probably wouldn't want to make it a funky jam as the Peppers normally did around that time. Something more melodic will do. This is that song you want to write. Yes.

Well, until tomorrow you guys.

Jamie.

My iPod #41: The Beatles - Another Girl

Alright. So, if you read my post yesterday, you know that I am 18 years old! Woot woot.

I still feel the same though. Does everyone else wake up when it's their birthday and just think, 'well, what now?' I thought that by turning eighteen I would feel some sense of freedom or intellectual gain, that hasn't happened so far. Meh. Life goes on.

Yeah yeah, The Beatles were great blah blah blah.

'Another Girl' is a bright and peppy song of the band's album 'Help!'. Paul McCartney takes the lead on this, also filling the role as the lead guitarist. He's the one doing all the random licks during the verses and chorus.

The band also play along with the song in a kind of music video, this can be seen in their movie also named 'Help!'. It's all fun and games with the Fab Four. The guys are in the Bahamas fooling around, John starts playing the drums and Ringo tries to the play the guitar, George starts throwing rocks at the other members, Paul almost touches a girl's noob whilst 'strumming' her like a bass. It's all good times in 1965.

'Help!' won't be that album that The Beatles are most known for, but it's still got some good tunes. This is a highlight.

Happy birthday to me and Pharrell Williams.

RIP Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley.

Until next time.

Jamie.