Savvy's Miscellaneous

I wanted to write an actual post to all the lovely people who have sent me messages and started following me from the link at the end of my Cracked article from yesterday. I am working on more articles for the future, some of them with the very talented AbsolutelyAdam and some on my own. Be sure I’ll put the links here once they’re live!

If you’ve read around a bit, you’ll probably have noticed that I use this Tumblr mostly to talk about music. Here’s where you guys can help me. I’ve kind of fallen into a musical rut lately, in terms of what I’m listening to, and I’m always wanting new music to check out. So you tell me:

What songs/bands/artists/albums should I write about next?

One of the more difficult things about achieving a goal of mine (getting an article published on Cracked.com), is that now I worry about the next article I’ll get published. Whether it’ll be good. Whether all the nice comments I got this time are going to turn into nasty ones.

In light of that, and because I now suddenly have an insane number of followers (Hi everyone! Thank you so much!), I’m going to talk about “sophomore albums.”

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I mentioned in a previous post that Elliott Smith’s music is indelibly associated in my mind with the rainy season here in south Florida. Of course, since rainy season here is very long (something like six months, possibly?), and I am hardly the person to listen to the same thing for more than a month (though I do listen to particular albums sometimes as long as a month), there are more options for me, and more songs that capture a rainy day for me.

Since rainy season seems to have started early this year, here are some of my picks:

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I told absolutelyadam that I was going to write a post about Muse, but this isn’t that post. The thoughts I have about Muse are just not turning into words well enough for me.

I’ve talked about Elliott Smith here before, I know. Namely, I talked about his last album. And I mentioned one of his songs as one I’d love to cover someday. But this post is about Elliott Smith more generally.

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I’ll post a real bit in the next day or so, but my mom stumbled upon this: http://www.spinner.com/2008/09/04/kurt-cobains-last-days-detailed-by-manager-danny-goldberg/ and shared it with me on the ol’ Facebook. There’s one tidbit in that article that particularly intrigued me—

“Early in 1993 Nirvana began recording ‘In Utero.’ Kurt was focused on balancing songs with punk energy with those that could work on the radio. When he finished ‘Heart Shaped Box,’ he called and ebulliently announced to me, “I’ve got the first single.” While he was writing ‘All Apologies’ he played the Beatles’ ‘Norwegian Wood’ over and over again, hour after hour.” Emphasis mine.

When I read that, I immediately rushed off to listen to both songs back to back. I strongly urge my readers to do the same:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY5i4-rWh44 The Beatles “Norwegian Wood”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LFVQpDKHk4 Nirvana “All Apologies”

It changed my perception of both songs, particularly Nirvana’s. I think Kurt Cobain gets enough credit for his lyrics, but never really sufficient credit for his melodic sensibility. A comparison like this, for me, underscores that quality in Cobain’s work.

fuckyeah-nerdery:

momologue:

And my favorite:

Oh sweet Jesus, this post.

Oh god, so cute.