So... here's the fifth week. To be honest, I hadn't thought things out this far so I'm writing this intro I'm also trying to think of a song to write about.
Meanwhile, in other news, since this is the only feature I'm actively doing on this blog and because I want to keep doing this, I'm working on constructing a new blog site specifically for Revolt Against Radio. It'll be awhile before I know what all I want to do with it but I figured I should start this now so there's less to transfer over to it when all is said and done. More news on that once there's more news to report.
Well, I was listening to The Classic Crime earlier so I'll just go with that I guess.
Now, The Classic Crime being one of my top 3 favorite bands of all time, having three albums worth of material, and only recently starting to get a little radio exposure, as far as I'm concerned I have a lot of songs to choose from. Not to mention they have a wide variety of beautiful songs as well as awesome alternative rock songs. They pretty much don't have a song I don't like. Ah, choices...
10 minutes later... I have decided on the song "Who Needs Air" which should be no surprise to you since it's in the title of this post. This is one of the first few songs from their debut album "Albatross" and may be one of the band's most well written songs of all.
I spent some time researching opinions on the meaning of this song of which there is no real agreement and I too have my own thoughts on this song so I'm not going to really expound on that this time. One of the beauties of this song is that it can be seen many different ways and mean different things to different people. So I'm not going to try and tear the curtain down but rather leave it up and leave up to you what to make of the song.
The next beauty of this song is the music itself. I can only speak for myself, but there's a number of emotions this song touches on. The lyrics mesh perfectly with the instrumentation as everything builds to an amazing bridge that paints the most beautiful picture of something simple and familiar yet strangely out of reach.
It drives me up the wall that The Classic Crime hasn't hit the mainstream yet. I've been following them from practically the day "Albatross" was released (without even knowing it was brand new at the time) and I've only heard their single "Salt In The Snow" from their second album on the Christian station Air1 and the first single, "Solar Powered Life," from their third album on a station out of Seattle (which is no surprise considering the band originated in Seattle and have a certain fondness for it.) Their songs could easily fit on Rock, Pop, Alternative, Christian... and maybe even Country radio and I truly believe any number of their songs could be huge mainstream hits. So many emotional strings are tugged on when listening through any of their albums. Everything from sadness to nostalgia, and desperation to happiness all on the same album. Can you tell they're one of my favorite bands?
I'll wrap up my ramblings here and just let you listen to the song at this point. I've realized that I've written about a lot of "beautiful" songs lately. (Well, since I've started actually.) This is mostly because of my real hate for Pop radio and all the gold they exclude from their playlists. I mean, how many times in one day can we play through the entire Top 40 countdown? But this isn't to say that I don't have problems with Rock radio either. To clarify this next statement, I don't just listen to local Sacramento stations. I stream a few different stations out of Seattle, Texas, Nevada, and even Alaska as well as a couple Sirius/XM stations I get to hear occasionally. So, having said that, Rock radio is not as bad. The stations I listen to seem more willing to play a wider variety of songs but that's not to say they're perfect either. So next week I'm going to take things up a notch and write about a total rocker song from my number one favorite band of all time. Until then...
Originally posted on Thoughts From an Internal Monologue on 11/13/2010
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