My iPod #274: Daft Punk - Digital Love

"Digital Love" was a single from Daft Punk's second album "Discovery" which came out in 2001.

I'm very sure that the video (the one you see above) aired on Cartoon Network once. Just one time. That was the first time I saw it too, but I always have doubts about whether it is because I was so young. I do remember a seeing a spaceship crashing into a forest, and a blue person coming out of it. That does happen in the video, right? Even if I did see it then, I must have heard the opening introduction in a lot of adverts or promotions for sitcoms or something.

Enough about me. You wanna know more about the track and what is in it. Well.....

1) The main chord progression that repeats throughout the whole song is actually a four second sample of an older track.
2) It's about being so far away from someone that the only way that physical contact is possible is in one's dreams.... which is sad. But that's okay because...
3) It's really funky. Got a proper four-on-the-floor disco beat.
4) Contains a shredding solo which starts near the end, lasts for about 40-50 seconds (off the top of my head) before fading out to a close.

The track is goooood. My favourite single from the album. Not song.... but single.

My iPod #158: The Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love

Another wonderful vocal performance by Paul McCartney. Sings it right from the gut. It was almost ear-piercing when I was always messing up the audio in Audacity and amplifying their tracks to ridiculous levels. I used to like my music very loud; I know now why audiophiles exist.

The first time I heard the song, The Beatles weren't singing it. It was a cover version that played in a Simpsons episode. From what I recall Bart and Lisa volunteer to work at the Retirement Castle and they persuade the old folk to have fun outside or whatever, which leads to a montage very similar to the original video by The Beatles which you can see above all of this.

That occurred when I was a child. I didn't see "A Hard Day's Night" until I was fourteen, so that whole montage was something that I thought was silly and comedic, rather than a parody.

"Can't Buy Me Love" is a joyful and bouncy song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, but mostly by the latter. You cannot listen to this song and feel sad at the same time. When Paul sings money can't buy him love, he sings it like he believes it. You want to believe him when he sings it too. This is all very cliché, but it is true. Money's bad. Love is good. Money does help a bit.... but compared to love it's nothing. Love is all you need.

Jamie.

My iPod #29: Love - Alone Again Or

Yeah. Said it's all right. I won't forget. All the times I've waited patiently for you. And you'll do, just what, you choose to do. And I will be alone again tonight my dear.

Those are the first words of album 'Forever Changes' by Love.

I'm a great fan of music. Any type. You may have guessed that already. I got to a point last year, when I really couldn't think of any albums to download. I had a large amount stuffed into my iTunes library, but still I couldn't think of anymore.

That was until I took the initiative to search 'best albums ever' into Google, and surprise surprise there's a site which had all I could hope for.

besteveralbums.com compiles the albums by the amount of times they've been placed in a 'best of' chart in magazines as well as allow users to rate their favourite albums. I would have no idea who 'Love' is if it wasn't for the site, I probably wouldn't have listened to any of the albums that are shown on there too.

I listened to 'Forever Changes', for the first time last year on Spotify. 'Alone Again Or' was the one that got my attention straight away. Yes, it is the first track of the album so that's obviously going to happen. It's quite a simple song, it has two verses with one of them repeated as the final verse, but it is backed up with lush orchestration. Violins, various strings, the trumpets in the middle which reminds me of the stereotypical background music that's played in a cartoon when a character goes to Mexico, or some other South American country. To put it frank, it sets the mood for the whole album.

And yet still, 'Forever Changes' isn't one of my favourite albums. I don't know what it is, I don't really know how to say why it isn't. I think it's just that it's sounds very different to what I normally listen to. There's something very sophisticated about it that just puts me off it. I'd probably have to listen to it again and see if I change my mind.

You don't have to take my bullshit though, listen to it and make up your own decision.

Until next time.

Jamie