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The Music Diary Project: Day 5

Eisley. I'm from Texas. Their from Texas. It just makes sense. They sure as hell beat our state administration's attitude toward the public school system's history books. History is history, people. You can't change. Well, I  guess you could. After all, what is it Napoleon once said?

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."

Nice. Although, Napoleon said it. And, this is a blog about music, so what the hell am I doing?

This group's last album, The Valley, is such a great listen. Today, I put is on as I surfed the net a bit. The opening track "Smarter" is just good music. Good music to me anyways.

I saw Hanna, and I loved it. It's as close to an X-23 movie as I'll get. And, so I checked out the soundtrack once again today.

I also found myself listening to a bit from R.E.M.'s Eponymous. What a greatest hits collection, huh? "Driver 8" is still the pooh after all these years.

And, so is Sigur Ros's (is that how you pluralize that?) "Njosnavelin," otherwise known as "The Nothing Song," otherwise known as that awesome song that plays at the end of Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky. Actually, that version isn't the version that's on (). If you care to hear the version from the film, here it

Sigur Rós - 01 - Njósnavélin [Live at Roskilde 2000]

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The Music Diary Project: Day 4

After reading - or just seeing - a lot about Kurt Cobain this week, I woke wanting to listen to some Nirvana. And, on the way to work, I did. The only two things of Nirvana I own on CD are the greatest hits that came out in 2002 and their seminal Unplugged performance.

 

I took a drive with their "greatest hits." And, something occurred to me as I heard oh-so many songs whose lyrics I know by heart: their songs are short. Seriously. I never thought of their length until today. This isn't a criticism. This is merely an odd observation. Their songs are the length they need to be. And, after listening to these songs for over half my life, I gotta say, they still work for me.

Cover Continuance of the Day: "The Man Who Sold The World" - originally by David Bowie

Gearing up for Joe Wright's Hanna tomorrow, I listened to that awesome Chemical Brothers score. Her theme is fantastic.