My today's #ttt blog will be about a little transition in my iPhone4 audio player that happened last week. Actually, I think I havent been adjusting my playlist of recordings I put to my iphone for more than 12 years... not a thing I feel proud of, haha. I wish it had more memory, 16 Gb is not that much to fit all that I would want to. maybe that is the reason why I filled it once with my fave music and dont get back to it. Sometimes I push the 'random' button and enjoy the surprising and refreshing feelings that come from different transitions between the songs iphone chose at random. This time it built a funny but curious selection that I was inspired to talk about. So: Janis Joplin, Radiohead, Tame Impala.
Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee
Janis Joplin was a shiny icon of hippy generation, one of the most significant artists of 1960-es and greatest female vocalists ever. And this doubtlessly is her most acclaimed song, a hymn of Freedom, quintessence of the whole generation's dream of a new, happier life / society basics, etc. When one's trying to build a snapshot of 60-es music, this song comes indispensable. (Janis died of alcoholism in 1970,-- no happy end followed in real life). I wish I had more room to add 2-3 LPs to my playlist, but there was enough room for two songs only. The second, which is even more important for me personally, is 'Mercedes-benz'; a mockery of the traditional values of consumer society. It easily could come up instead of 'McGee', and its playback would not change anything, would not make any difference to the mood.
Radiohead - The Tourist
And suddenly - after this bittersweet hippy hymn of 60-es came up a gloomy coda of the vip alternative rock album of 90-es, a representative of a completely different generation, which absorbed all the disappointments and losses of the 70s, 80s, 90s. Radiohead was my favorite band for more than 2 decades, and still occupies a lot of place in my heart (but shares it with a lot of other great bands). Still I will underline: this song is not my cup of tea; ofc it does play its conceptual role in the album, but it never matches my mood. 'Slow down, dude' is for those who rush at a speed of 100+ ... and I already slow down at every turn and even on level ground, for no apparent reason. Thats why most often I fast-forward this song. This time I listened it to the end - waiting patiently what track the iPhone will throw at me next, what the transition will be?
Tame Impala - Feels like we only go backwards
...and it did surprise me, picking the psychedelic track from Tame Impala that colored for me the entire summer of 2022. In my opinion, this is a brilliant representative of modern rock (call it alternative, classical - whatever you like), of course, it is not at the level of Led Zeppelin... not that scale; but in any case, these are the associations that come to my mind when listening to their music. And most importantly, this is again another young generation that throws away synthesizers with samples and takes up guitars again. Their melodies again make you dream of the 60s and the hippie era. I really hope that you will appreciate the video clip for this song.
I hope you enjoyed today's music selection, and travelling around the globe without leaving the Hive. 😎 The post goes for Three Tune Tuesday challenge run by @ablaze. Previous issues: 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 118 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 131 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 151 | 152 | 154 | 156 | 157 | 165 | 167 | 168 | 170 | 171 | 172 |
