Music For The Soul

So I was rambling on and on about how music is being done injustice to these days...

I took the liberty of compiling a list of bands and songs that I personally feel are what music is all about.

If there was a God in the music world, he would've split Himself into the 5 members of Dream Theater. He would've pinched Jojo so hard in her rear end, she'd cry and promise never to wreck any old classic hit ever again. He'd smack P Diddy for his constant identity crisis and quite possibly just murder Jessica Simpson for doing raunchy remakes of old songs.
Just check out their most radio friendly song "Another Day"


Dream Theater - Another Day

Ooo... and that's only the tip of the iceberg. I'm not even beginning to talk about their absolutely progressive pieces with weird time signatures like 9/8, 15/6, 288/354..... or their mind blowing 20 minute songs. Check out this excerpt from ther song 'Lie' ... Go ahead ... I challenge you to find the time signature for that. Oh ... I do believe that John Petrucci just mIGht be God in disguise .... He's the type of guy who could play a bad note on the guitar and still make it sound good... all the time.


Dream Theater - Lie First Solo Break


If you want to listen to music that can bring tears to your eyes, take a listen to U2's "With Or Without You". Interesting to note that these guys can actually use only a simple 4 note progression throughout the entire song, yet tell a whole story with it.


U2 - With Or Without You

Then there's of course one of the most classic rock bands in history.. Metallica. That's until they got Trujillo the ape as a bassist and decided to tune their guitars so low, they now sound like they're all playing bass guitars. Whatever it is, throughout the earlier part of their careers, they've managed to come up with some of the best tunes in rock. This particular song was what made me start listening to rock in the first place. "The Unforgiven"


Metallica - The Unforgiven

Other than the fact that their drummer has only one arm (yes he does) the thing that intrigues me the most is how Def Leppard manages to get that whole opera-like chorusy effects in all their choruses. It sounds like there are a dozen people singing in a dozen harmonies. Take a listen to their classic hit "When Love and Hate Collide" Isn't that how all music should be written?


Def Leppard - When Love And Hate Collide

If you don't like Guns N Roses, you probably haven't heard "November Rain". Of course you'll know them from Sweet Child Of Mine but this one's just so classic in so many ways. How they managed to incorporate a piano, an orchestra, electric guitars and drums all into one song with such taste is really mind boggling. And when Slash comes out with his Les Paul blazing.... sheer music


Guns N Roses - November Rain

Okay .... Those were all classic rock bands. I'll be back with my list of songs and bands today that I find are worth keeping in my iPOD

.... Kanasai