Monday Movie Music #2: TV Is The New Radio

Ok, these aren't exactly 'movies', but hey, these two shows are actually better than MOST movies, and they have way better music too.

Heck, a lot of the TV shows I watched these days have pretty good music, and a lot of it are from indie artistes.

Anyway, there's nothing more cool than hearing a song you really like come on during a movie or a TV show. And since I had two of those moments in quick succession recently, I decided to share those two songs with you today.

As you all might know already, the theme music for House is Massive Attack's Teardrop. And when José González's acoustic guitar version of that song came on during the Season 4 finale, I was practically whooping for joy. Er. as joyful as I could have got after watching what was one of the show's saddest episodes ever, that is.

Also, right now I'm watching Chuck, and the third episode featured what is one of the most fascinating bands ever, or at least the band with the most unique baritone lead vocals ever - The National. The song featured was also one of my favorites off their Boxer album - Slow Show. Get the damn album, it's awesome.


Downloads:

National, The - Slow Show (from Boxer, 2007)
José González - Teardrop (from In Our Nature, 2007)


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Monday Movie Music #1: Falling Once, Slowly

I like watching movies. And I like it when a movie has a great song in exactly the right place. And because people don't usually watch movies on Mondays (and for want of a better reason other than the fact that 'Monday' starts with 'M' just like 'Movie' and 'Music'), I hereby dedicate every Monday to songs in movies I like.

First up, Once. Yes, the movie that won that Oscar for Best Song. I Not-Reviewed the movie on EoE before, so I won't talk about the movie. But its a nice little movie. Go watch it.

Anyway, it says a lot about the music in the movie that I actually went out and bought the soundtrack album IMMEDIATELY after watching the movie. It's mostly guitar driven singer-songwriter stuff by Glen Hansard, and my favorites has to be Lies, When Your Mind's Made Up and of course, Falling Slowly. I especially like it when Markéta Irglová is singing along as well.

I'm not going to post Falling Slowly here. Instead, I'll post my actual favorite from the whole album: Lies. It's a little slow at first, but the pay-off is the bridge and the chorus, which I just could not get out of my head after watching the movie.

Go watch the movie! It's on GSC International Screens for now, but donno how long its gonna be on! And after that, go get the soundtrack, it's awesome!

Downloads

Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová - Lies (from the Once OST, 2007)


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Musiclarity, Explained.

So what exactly is this "Musiclarity" thing?

Well, it's a word I made up to describe that moment in each song in which I forget about everything I’m doing, I drop everything else, and just wait for that moment.

It’s just that moment in the song that connects with me, that makes me want to listen to that song over and over again just to catch that one moment, long or short, and which makes listening to the song so worth while.

Songs without that moment are not listened to more than once in a long while. Songs with it are always on my five-star must-play list and listened to over and over again, no matter whether its a mainstream or an indie song.

Good or bad, my personal tastes in songs are all based on that one, single moment. I call it my own personal moment of musical clarity, my personal musical supernova.

I wrote about this on Eye on Everything long time ago, with a LOOOONG list of songs and their moments of musiclarity.

Here are four of those songs (for the original list, WITHOUT the mp3s, go HERE).

• It’s Liam's rasping vocals on the verses of Rockin’ Chair
• It's the improvision on the live acoustic version of She Will Be Loved
• It's the sudden switch to that rocking beat halfway through Like A Friend
• The almost plaintively wailed, musicless, drawn-out "IS THIIIIIINKING" bit in Nude

Downloads:

Oasis - Rockin' Chair (from The Masterplan, 1998)
Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved (acoustic, live)
Pulp - Like a Friend (from the Great Expectations OST, 1998)
Radiohead - Nude (from In Rainbows, 2007)

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