Filed under: Music
I’m in love. In love, not with a pretty girl with a svelte figure and a cute face, but with half a dozen sweaty American blokes, including a rather “well-rounded” one.
Fruity eh?
But it’s not as queer as you might think. I’m in love with the Dave Matthews Band! I discovered them a few weeks ago, and I had no idea why I’d never really paid attention to their music before. It’s not just your run-of-the-mill 4 piece band. The Dave Matthews Band is a 5-person affair, involving a singer and guitarist, a bassist, a drummer, a violinist, and a saxophonist. Here’s the band performing “Two Step” and “Lie in Our Graves”.
Yes, that’s a violin he’s playing. Not a banjo, not a tuba, but a violin.
Everytime I hear the violins enter in “Lie in Our Graves” (it sounds a whole lot better in the studio recording), I get a mental orgasm. I know this sounds even more fruity, but there’s just no other way to describe it – both the feeling and the music. It’s sort of alternative rock, but it’s sounds so much more musical than most of what I’ve listened to. In fact, it’s more like some kind of weird fusion that actually works. It’s a bit of rock, a bit of funk, a bit of jazz, a bit of country, a bit of something else that I can’t quite figure out, and a lot of music. Wonderful to listen to.
And then there’s the drummer, Carter Beauford. That’s the fat dude sitting behind the drums, but you can’t see him very well, because he’s hiding behind that massive drumkit. And what a drumkit that is. It consists of a whole smorgasbord of toms and cymbals. And the best part is that he actually uses every single bit of the drumkit during his performances! It’s insane! It takes a certain kind of drummer to do that, and Carter Beauford is that kind of drummer, and I absolutely love that kind of drummers.
So if you’ve got the time, do check out the Dave Matthews Band, especially their first 3 studio albums, “Under The Table and Dreaming”, “Crash” and “Before These Crowded Streets”. If they don’t blow you away, you’re probably too fat.
The new semester is finally here, not that I’ve been looking forward to it. 6 modules again, but there’s physics this time, plus the MMC looks like it’s becoming a bit more demanding now, so this is going to be another hell of a semester. And I do mean “hell”. I shall finally understand the meaning of the term “Monday Blues” as I fast every other Monday. A full day from 9 to 5. No lunch breaks, no tea breaks, which means my face will turn blue with hunger. Or exhaustion, or both.
If there’s any consolation though, the “Chemistry of the Ocean” module seems rather interesting. The lecturer keeps pronouncing “salts are” as “salsa” (“The ’salsa’ very concentrated…”), and at one point, he was advising us that “if you’re late, please enter through the backside… door… Enter the LT through the backside door if you know you’re going to be late.”
It looks very promising indeed.
