Tag: Music

Blow Up the Outside World – Soundgarden

When asked if he really wanted to “blow up the outside world”, Cornell said, “All the time, so it doesn’t encroach on me—you can hibernate and not have to worry about it.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blow_Up_the_Outside_World

Nothing seems to kill me no matter how hard I try
Nothing is closing my eyes
Nothing can beat me down for your pain or delight
And nothing seems to break me
No matter how hard I fall
Nothing can break me at all
Not one for giving up though not invincible I know

I’ve givin’ everything I need
I’d give you everything I own
I’d give in if it could at least be ours alone
I’ve given everything I could
To blow it to hell and gone
Burrow down in and blow up the outside
Blow up the outside
Blow up the outside world

Someone tried to tell me something
Don’t let the world bring you down?
Nothing will do me in before I do myself
So save it for your own and the ones you can help

I’ve givin’ everything I need
I’d give you everything I own
I’d give in if it could at least be ours alone
I’ve given everything I could
To blow it to hell and gone
Burrow down in and blow up the outside
Blow up the outside
Blow up the outside world

Want to make it understood
Wanting though I never would
Trying though I know it’s wrong
Blowing it to hell and gone
Wishing though I never could

Calling Dr. Love – Kiss – RIP Ace Frehley

RIP Ace Frehley

Ace Frehley, the original lead guitarist and founding member of the glam rock band Kiss, who captivated audiences with his elaborate galactic makeup and smoking guitar, died Thursday. He was 74.

Frehley died peacefully surrounded by family in Morristown, New Jersey, following a recent fall, according to his agent.

Ace Frehley, Kiss’ original lead guitarist and founding member, dies at 74

Ha!
They call me (Dr. Love)
They call me Dr. Love (Calling Dr. Love)
I’ve got the cure you’re thinking of (Calling Dr. Love)

Ooh, they call me (Dr. Love)
I am the doctor of love (Calling Dr. Love)
I’ve got the cure you’re thinking of (Calling Dr. Love)

What Makes This Song Great? “Everlong” Foo Fighters – Rick Beato

@M2Mil7er
When a drum fill is so righteous, it makes a guitar instantly materialise in Rick’s hands.

@adamlewis5073
the female backing vocals – they were actually recorded over the phone, that’s why they sound lo-fi.

Sus (suspended) chords are chords where the third note is replaced by either a second or a fourth, creating a feeling of tension or unresolved sound that often leads back to a standard major or minor chord. The two main types are sus2 chords, which substitute the second note of the scale, and sus4 chords, which substitute the fourth note. They are used to add emotional tension and momentum to music, particularly in jazz, pop, and rock.

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Dance as Form of Communication – Rolling Stones, Sonny Rollins anecdote

The song is noted for its dreamy qualities brought on by the soft guitars, smooth rhythm, and Jagger’s lilting refrain of “doo-doo-doo”. Veteran Stones collaborator Nicky Hopkins performs the track’s running piano.[1] The Stones hired jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins to perform the solo on this song, as well as two other songs on the album. On his contribution to the track, Jagger said in 1985:

“I had a lot of trepidation about working with Sonny Rollins. This guy’s a giant of the saxophone. Charlie said, ‘He’s never going to want to play on a Rolling Stones record!’ I said, ‘Yes he is going to want to.’ And he did and he was wonderful. I said, ‘Would you like me to stay out there in the studio?’ He said, ‘Yeah, you tell me where you want me to play and DANCE the part out.’ So I did that. And that’s very important: communication in hand, dance, whatever. You don’t have to do a whole ballet, but sometimes that movement of the shoulder tells the guy to kick in on the beat.”[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_on_a_Friend

Inside Out – Eve 6

The band’s final name is a reference to The X-Files. Fagenson, a fan of the show, suggested the name after seeing an episode titled “Eve,” which included a character who went by the name of “Eve 6.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_6
see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_Modern_Rock_Tracks_number_ones_of_the_1990s#1998

I would swallow my pride, I would choke on the rinds
But the lack thereof would leave me empty inside
Swallow my doubt, turn it inside out
Find nothin’ but faith in nothin’
Wanna put my tender heart in a blender
Watch it spin ’round to a beautiful oblivion
Rendezvous, then I’m through with you

I burn, burn like a wicker cabinet
Chalk white and oh-so-frail
I see our time has gotten stale
The tick-tock of the clock is painful
All sane and logical
I wanna tear it off the wall
I hear words in clips and phrases
I think sick like ginger ale
My stomach turns and I exhale

I would swallow my pride, I would choke on the rinds
But the lack thereof would leave me empty inside
I would swallow my doubt, turn it inside out
Find nothin’ but faith in nothin’
Wanna put my tender heart in a blender
Watch it spin ’round to a beautiful oblivion
Rendezvous, then I’m through with you

So-Cal is where my mind states
But it’s not my state of mind
I’m not as ugly, sad as you
Or am I origami
Folded up and just pretend
Demented as the motives in your head

I would swallow my pride, I would choke on the rinds
But the lack thereof would leave me empty inside
I would swallow my doubt, turn it inside out
Find nothin’ but faith in nothin’
Wanna put my tender heart in a blender
Watch it spin ’round to a beautiful oblivion
Rendezvous, then I’m through with you
(Rendezvous)

I alone am the one you don’t know you need
Take heed, feed your ego
Make me blind when your eyes close
Sink when you get close, tie me to the bedpost
I alone am the one you don’t know you need
You don’t know you need me
Make me blind when your eyes close
Tie me to the bedpost

I would swallow my pride, I would choke on the rinds
The lack thereof would leave me empty inside
Swallow my doubt, turn it inside out
Find nothing but faith in nothing
Wanna put my tender heart in a blender
Watch it spin ’round to a beautiful oblivion
Rendezvous, then I’m through, now I’m through with you

Through with you
Rendezvous, then I’m through with you

Supermarket Music Sounding Good These Days

Meirl
byu/Contemporary_Scribe inmeirl

cutedorkycoco
I heard Fall Out Boy on a classics station once and wanted to cry. Spotify made me a playlist called divorced dad rock alternatives and I don’t understand the need to be so violent. I’m not even a guy or divorced!

INeedReasons
Omg this made me snort laugh so loud. The divorced part is so unnecessary yet perfect

cutedorkycoco
Yeah I was so mad because I knew what it meant, but I didn’t like it. Like, just let me listen to The Killers in peace.

lordretro71
Jammed out to Sk8tr Boy at Walmart this morning…

Particular_Ticket_20
The oldies station in my area that played doo-wop and motown and 60s pop now plays the music I listened to in college and high school.

My local grocery store just plays cheesy over the top patriotic music now.

i_should_be_coding
I got out of the car once just as Everlong finished playing. Went inside the store and Everlong started playing. Took me a second to recompose myself.

alphi10
I remember this change literally happened the day I graduated high school. I worked in a grocery store the last three years of HS and had to listen to Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand all day. The day I graduated and quit they started playing TLC, Destiny’s Child, Britney and Christina. I was like, I guess I’m an adult now

Nookie – Limp Bizkit

I did it all for the nookie
(Come on) the nookie
(Come on) so you can take that cookie
And stick it up your (yeah)
Stick it up your (yeah)
Stick it up your (yeah)
Stick it up your

Limp Bizkit is an American Nu Metal band from Jacksonville, Florida. Its lineup consists of lead vocalist Fred Durst, drummer John Otto, guitarist Wes Borland, turntablist DJ Lethal and bassist Sam Rivers. The band’s musical style is marked by Durst’s angry vocal delivery and Borland’s sonic experimentation. Borland’s elaborate visual appearance, which includes face and body paint, masks, and uniforms, also plays a large role in Limp Bizkit’s live shows. The band has been nominated for three Grammy Awards, sold 40 million records worldwide, and won several other awards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limp_Bizkit

Wu-Tang Clan – Denver* – July 4, 2025

Run the Jewels was the opening act.

Excellent show. 10/10

From a review of their Ft. Worth show:

24. Energy stew. All night RZA has been our master of ceremonies, conducting the crowd and getting us to participate in certain songs. After U-God and RZA called out different sections of the arena for their energy, RZA said, “Let’s take all that energy and put it together in one big energy stew. And we gonna take you back to that ‘90s hip-hop and make your energy just explode!” The beat for “4th Chamber” came in. It turned the place up.

25. Cappadonna is having the best night. In every verse Cappadonna did, he rapped with more intensity and heart. RZA has instructed us to ball our negative energy into a fist, open our hands to release it and make a chopping motion like an axe to chop up the bullshit. It set up Cappadonna’s “Run” nicely, which now instructed us to keep it moving when things get sticky.

Wu-Tang Clan Forever: 36 Moments From Their Final Show in Fort Worth
Wu-Tang Clan is currently on its last tour, a rare opportunity for the members to say goodbye and thank their fans.
By Eric Diep
June 15, 2025

* This was at Fiddler’s Green, which is technically Greenwood Village.