BEDA #14

Hey guys.

I think today's going to be a short one. You can't take my word for it though, because yesterday I said "short" and it turned out to be long-ish. I have to sleep early today, though. And early for me means before 3am. xD

Today I went to the esplanade library, and got most of my math done :D granted it was relatively easy math, but I haven't done it in 4 months, and I still remember it. Now I still have to plow through a whole bunch of Hardy poems, and it doesn't help that he's often vague. While doing math, I listened to Whatever and Ever Amen, which is a 1997 Ben Folds Five album. The only other Ben Folds album I've listened to is Lonely Avenue, and it was really interesting to listen to this because you can see how he has progressed; his style is largely the same, but Lonely Avenue is less of a composite of other styles and is more distinct than Whatever and Ever Amen, obviously.

A fun song!

"She don't use butter, she don't use cheese,

She don't use jelly, or any of these

She uses VAAAAASALINE"

Wiki says this is a Billboard top 100 song by The Flaming Lips, but I haven't heard of it before. Can't believe I missed it, but this is probably because it was released in 1993. xD

I was thinking of doing an album review because I like this album so much, but I did one for The White Stripes, and all my paragraphs sound the same. -_-" largely because I lack ... musical vocabulary? Technical terms to describe the features in music. For example in Lit you have, say, enjambment, rhythm, iambic tetrameter etc-- terms to describe the characteristics of a text, but I don't know anything for music.

I'll just write it anyway, look over it, and see how it goes. And maybe find out more about music critique. I've read entire album reviews where you don't necessarily have to understand musical terms in order to get what the journalist has to say. Maybe reading album reviews would help. Although. Sometimes they're terribly scathing, and dismissive of the music they hear. As if successfully putting down someone means that you have distinguished taste. I suppose that's what you have to do to get taken seriously in that industry.

If you don't have time to listen to the entire album, also look out for

Song for the Dumped (So. Funny.)

Brick (it hits home, strangely. in a scary way.)

Video Killed the Radio Star (a staple for Ben Folds' live shows)

Cigarette (haunting. awesome.)

I've just realised that some of the tracks in Whatever and Ever Amen sound like they come straight off broadway. Which is a good thing!

Tell me a song that's been a earworm for you lately. :D