What are the non-musical ideas, subjects and images that guide my creative journey? What do I want my music to say, what picture do I want it to paint? Do I want to change the world (universe) or just record it?
Here is a list of inspiration and influence. Some of these are sources of potential [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Influences’
The Leader For Tomorrow Is Your’s Today
Posted in Other's Music, tagged Dead Kennedys, Influences, Lyrics, Politics In Music, Punk on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Leader For Tomorrow Is Your’s Today
Finally Gotcha Psyched for a police state
- Full Metal Jackoff by Jello Biafra with D.O.A.
Jello Biafra is another who has written many unbelievably good lyrics through the years, although again most would require more than two lines to demonstrate (and there was a max two lines constraint in compiling [...]
Our progeny will raise a can
Posted in Other's Music, tagged Arab Strap, Influences, Lyrics on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our progeny will raise a can,
Here’s to where it all began
- There Is No Ending by Arab Strap
Arab Strap wrote a lot of great lyrics, most require more than two lines to capture though … and the two lines max constraint was important to the ten favourite lyrics challenge all those many moons ago that [...]
Eat a cow, eat a cow, cos it’s good for you
Posted in Other's Music, tagged Influences, Lyrics, Rockabilly on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Eat a cow, eat a cow, cos it’s good for you
Eat a cow, eat a cow, it’s a thing that goes moo
- Eat Steak by The Reverand Horton Heat
Again. as I’ve said many times before, I’m easily amused. Bad jokes, puns and noveltyish records will always win a place in my heart.
This lyric is great [...]
Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman
Posted in Other's Music, tagged Billy Bragg, Influences, Lyrics, Politics In Music on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If noone out there understands
Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman
- The Great Leap Forward by Billy Bragg
I like Billy Bragg.
It did take a while to get past the accent which lets face it is, unlike many other regional accents, not exactly tuneful … it does however fit the nature of his [...]
Cos I’d rather have you than sing these shit songs
Posted in Other's Music, tagged Arab Strap, Influences, Lyrics on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cos I’d rather have you than sing these shit songs
- Break My Heart by Malcolm Middleton
Of all the music I’ve heard in my life so far Malcolm Middleton comes closest to writing the songs I’ve tried and failed to write. Self-deprecating, romantic, human, somehow managing to be down and upbeat simultaneously … above all, smile [...]
I left my home and the Northern winter cold
Posted in Other's Music, tagged Influences, Lyrics on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I left my home and the Northern winter cold
Headed For the big city, Stockholm
- What I Came Here For by Kristopher Åström and Hidden Truck
A personal one this. This song captures, almost exactly, how I felt (and still occasionally feel) about relocating ten years ago to the other end of the country, away from my [...]
The moonshiner’s daughter puts the corn in the water
Posted in Other's Music, tagged Bluegrass, Hayseed Dixie, Influences, Lyrics on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The moonshiner’s daughter puts the corn in the water
And makes me liquor all night long
- Moonshiner’s Daughter by Hayseed Dixie
Makes me laugh. I may be easily amused (in fact I know I am) but puns, double entendres and slightly naughty jokes will always work for me. A line like this is guaranteed to put a [...]
Military Intellegence, Two Words Combined That Can’t Make Sense
Posted in Other's Music, tagged Influences, Inspiration, Lyrics, Megadeth, Politics In Music on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Military Intellegence, Two Words Combined That Can’t Make Sense
- Hanger 18 by Megadeth
Genius.
Witty, cynical, clever … everything I would want any lyrics I write to be. This lyric also transcends the music, I suspect there are many out there who have never listened to Megadeth but are aware of this rhyme.
On a personal note this [...]
Inconsequential Blatherings On The State Of “Popular” Music
Posted in Other's Music, tagged Influences, Inspiration on September 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It has the potential to become quite exciting.
Music will never die. It is too powerful and emotionally moving a medium to disappear. People will always create music even if the days of the “rock star” are numbered. People have always and will always create music for itself.
The “Music Industry” may very well die. … but [...]
