Showing posts with label bach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bach. Show all posts

Friday, February 25, 2011

Rock Me Mama and Classical

The first blog post containing music is here [five minutes after the first post on the blog. Haha!] Anyway, I thought I would start with good old 'classical' music but there has been a certain song stuck in my head all day. And that would be:

Old Crow Medicine Show- Wagon Wheel


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This song is very, very catchy. I didn't put the actual music video because I'm afraid it contains a few poorly dressed girls that I didn't really wish to share. This song brings back some pretty good memories of my stepping out of my comfort zone and trying, although I failed, sort of, to excel. Good time, good time.

Lyrics:
Headed down south to the land of the pinesI'm thumbin' my way into North Caroline
Starin’ up the road
And pray to God I see headlights
I made it down the coast in seventeen hours
Pickin’ me a bouquet of dogwood flowers
And I'm a hopin’ for Raleigh
I can see my baby tonight
Chorus:So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama anyway you feel
Hey mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a south-bound train
Hey mama rock me
Runnin' from the cold up in New EnglandI was born to be a fiddler in an old-time string band
My baby plays the guitar
I pick a banjo now
Oh, the North country winters keep a gettin’ me now
Lost my money playin’ poker so I had to up and leave
But I ain’t a turnin’ back
To livin’ that old life no more
(Chorus)Walkin' to the south out of RoanokeI caught a trucker out of Philly
Had a nice long toke
But he's a headed west from the Cumberland Gap
To Johnson City, Tennessee
And I gotta get a move on fit for the sun
I hear my baby callin’ my name
And I know that she's the only one
And if I die in Raleigh
At least I will die free
(Chorus)









Now to the 'classical' music, in a sense. I'll start with one song that makes me want to smile every time I hear it.

Mischa Maisky- Bach's Prelude Suite No. 1


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Next, an eerie song that expires me to write! I usually come up with something totally creepy--but at least I'm writing, right?


Ludwig Beethoven- Moonlight Sonata 


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And the final one for this post: 


Pachelbel's Canon
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I hope you enjoy the classical and the non-classical. :]


I'm also sorry if any of the videos didn't turn out right--my computer was causing me so problems.


Lia