Comments on: Powerful rock—without power chords http://kitchenboombox.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/powerful-rock-without-power-chords/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:54:30 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Blake http://kitchenboombox.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/powerful-rock-without-power-chords/#comment-47 Blake Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:14:50 +0000 http://kitchenboombox.wordpress.com/2007/05/09/powerful-rock-without-power-chords/#comment-47 If you get the urge for more Bird, check out his earlier album Mysterious Production of Eggs, perhaps his best. It's one of my favorite recent albums, though I couldn't tell you why. The whole thing pulses with this magnetic precision, masterful arrangements, impeccable songwriting, and abstruse lyrics that make strange sense on an unconscious level. I've tried to dismantle the songs, something I tend to do to music, and when I succeed I'm suddenly bored. But every time I try I get turned around and sent in a different direction. Then, when I saw him live he radically reinterpreted everything he played, going so far to make some songs only recognizable by their lyrics. If you get the urge for more Bird, check out his earlier album Mysterious Production of Eggs, perhaps his best. It’s one of my favorite recent albums, though I couldn’t tell you why. The whole thing pulses with this magnetic precision, masterful arrangements, impeccable songwriting, and abstruse lyrics that make strange sense on an unconscious level.

I’ve tried to dismantle the songs, something I tend to do to music, and when I succeed I’m suddenly bored. But every time I try I get turned around and sent in a different direction. Then, when I saw him live he radically reinterpreted everything he played, going so far to make some songs only recognizable by their lyrics.

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