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Little Big Town
Dec. 30th, 2005 02:09 pmI've noticed that my friends list goes up every time I either do a long rant or post tons of stuff about feminism or misused religion. With that in mind, I'm going to...
...pimp a band right now.
There's a country station here that does what they call "The 4:30 Future File" where they play a new cut by an established artist or something by a new band, and then get the listeners to call in with ratings. I've learned about a fair number of now-famous bands before they hit because of that, or caught songs I would have otherwise missed.
A couple of times the DJ played a song called "Boondocks" by Little Big Town. I loved and jumped on Amazon to get the CD. Seeing only one LBT CD, I figured it had to be the right one and got it.
Uh, nope. Little Big Town by Little Big Town doesn't have "Boondocks" on it - but I loved the album so much I stopped caring by about the second chorus of "Pontiac," the first cut. (Tired of living a life like that/giving a love she don't get back/lies as big as a pontiac/rolling all over her.) Later cuts on the album are more soft rock ballad than country, particularly the soft, nice, and hypnotic "Never Felt Love" (Now I'm alright/I've got you in my life/and I've never felt love ever feel so right) and the even more lyrical "From This Dream," which almost has a classic Moody Blues sound.
I finally got The Road to Here. This one is much more rockabilly; "Stay" is the only soft ballad on it, and "Boondocks" (I feel no shame/I'm proud of where I come from/I was born and raised in the boondocks) is totally out-rednecked by "Welcome to the Family." (Here's some brotherly advice/If you know what's good for you you'll treat her right/'Cause Grandpa's the local sheriff/He's the judge and jury too) "Lookin' for a Reason" (Not to be Gone) is a personal favorite.
A lot of juicy love/breakup stuff to work with for the vidders, and one song that I'm already laying bets will show up shortly as the signature tune for some horror/crime show: "Bones." (You've got bones in your closet/You've got ghosts in your town/Ain't no doubt, yeah, they're gonna come out/They're waiting for the sun to go down)
Listen to the cuts on Amazon to see if LBT fits your taste; I'm putting their stuff on the auto-buy list as it comes out.
Oh, and to not disappoint the crowd, an Intelligent Design link - a Chicago Tribune article titled "It's No Fun to be a Biology Teacher in Kansas. Go to the second page to find the student who considered this an appropriate test answer:
"Although there is more than one viewpoint on the issue of how we all got here, Mr. Bingman is forcing [us into] believing his views by teaching us one-sided education. This is much as how the liberal media is forcing the public into disowning the war and Pres. Bush's policies. Despite my viewpoints I am forced to write about the theory of evolution."
And on the political side, Googlenews is now citing quite a few headlines that the Justice Dept. is pursuing the leak which publicized Bush's wiretapping of citizens without warrants. Not an investigation into the legality of that wiretapping, no, this is searching for the person who let the classified news out into the public.
May it be as fast and fruitful as the Plame investigation, which is also about leaking classified information to the press...
...pimp a band right now.
There's a country station here that does what they call "The 4:30 Future File" where they play a new cut by an established artist or something by a new band, and then get the listeners to call in with ratings. I've learned about a fair number of now-famous bands before they hit because of that, or caught songs I would have otherwise missed.
A couple of times the DJ played a song called "Boondocks" by Little Big Town. I loved and jumped on Amazon to get the CD. Seeing only one LBT CD, I figured it had to be the right one and got it.
Uh, nope. Little Big Town by Little Big Town doesn't have "Boondocks" on it - but I loved the album so much I stopped caring by about the second chorus of "Pontiac," the first cut. (Tired of living a life like that/giving a love she don't get back/lies as big as a pontiac/rolling all over her.) Later cuts on the album are more soft rock ballad than country, particularly the soft, nice, and hypnotic "Never Felt Love" (Now I'm alright/I've got you in my life/and I've never felt love ever feel so right) and the even more lyrical "From This Dream," which almost has a classic Moody Blues sound.
I finally got The Road to Here. This one is much more rockabilly; "Stay" is the only soft ballad on it, and "Boondocks" (I feel no shame/I'm proud of where I come from/I was born and raised in the boondocks) is totally out-rednecked by "Welcome to the Family." (Here's some brotherly advice/If you know what's good for you you'll treat her right/'Cause Grandpa's the local sheriff/He's the judge and jury too) "Lookin' for a Reason" (Not to be Gone) is a personal favorite.
A lot of juicy love/breakup stuff to work with for the vidders, and one song that I'm already laying bets will show up shortly as the signature tune for some horror/crime show: "Bones." (You've got bones in your closet/You've got ghosts in your town/Ain't no doubt, yeah, they're gonna come out/They're waiting for the sun to go down)
Listen to the cuts on Amazon to see if LBT fits your taste; I'm putting their stuff on the auto-buy list as it comes out.
Oh, and to not disappoint the crowd, an Intelligent Design link - a Chicago Tribune article titled "It's No Fun to be a Biology Teacher in Kansas. Go to the second page to find the student who considered this an appropriate test answer:
"Although there is more than one viewpoint on the issue of how we all got here, Mr. Bingman is forcing [us into] believing his views by teaching us one-sided education. This is much as how the liberal media is forcing the public into disowning the war and Pres. Bush's policies. Despite my viewpoints I am forced to write about the theory of evolution."
And on the political side, Googlenews is now citing quite a few headlines that the Justice Dept. is pursuing the leak which publicized Bush's wiretapping of citizens without warrants. Not an investigation into the legality of that wiretapping, no, this is searching for the person who let the classified news out into the public.
May it be as fast and fruitful as the Plame investigation, which is also about leaking classified information to the press...
