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I’m not a huge fan of Cohen’s music in particular but when it was recommended to me by a friend to check out his lyrics, I started listening to his music just to hear his lyrics. This song’s got some of my favorite.
“Everybody Knows”
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died
Everybody talking to their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long stem rose
Everybody knows
Everybody knows that you love me baby
Everybody knows that you really do
Everybody knows that you’ve been faithful
Ah give or take a night or two
Everybody knows you’ve been discreet
But there were so many people you just had to meet
Without your clothes
And everybody knows
Everybody knows, everybody knows
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows, everybody knows
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows
And everybody knows that it’s now or never
Everybody knows that it’s me or you
And everybody knows that you live forever
Ah when you’ve done a line or two
Everybody knows the deal is rotten
Old Black Joe’s still pickin’ cotton
For your ribbons and bows
And everybody knows
And everybody knows that the Plague is coming
Everybody knows that it’s moving fast
Everybody knows that the naked man and woman
Are just a shining artifact of the past
Everybody knows the scene is dead
But there’s gonna be a meter on your bed
That will disclose
What everybody knows
And everybody knows that you’re in trouble
Everybody knows what you’ve been through
From the bloody cross on top of Calvary
To the beach of Malibu
Everybody knows it’s coming apart
Take one last look at this Sacred Heart
Before it blows
And everybody knows
Everybody knows, everybody knows
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows
Oh everybody knows, everybody knows
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows
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How we should view music.
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. … No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others” — Martha Graham
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It’s a wrap!
As most of you know, I’ve been hard at work the past couple of months officially engineering my first major project here in Taipei. I had the unbelievable luck and honor of recording Lin Yu Chun as my first artist. For those of you who aren’t sure who he is, he’s the youtube sensation from Taiwan who covered Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” with frightening accuracy.
These last two months have been exhausting, high-pressure, and fascinating all at the same time. We basically recorded every single day for 8 weeks straight, and after spending so much time in a room together, through the highs and lows of a professional recording session, we have all emerged with invaluable experience and strong bonds of friendship. It also helps that Yu Chun is one of the nicest and most humble people I’ve ever met. This is how all artists should be, it makes you sincerely wish for their success in ways that merely appreciating their music doesn’t.
His album comes out in October internationally, everyone go out and support him!
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So after almost a year, I was reunited with my beautiful Taylor acoustic guitar. The ungodly humidity in Taiwan had caused the wood of my guitar to become extremely warped effectively destroying my action and intonation. I had to spend around $200 dollars to get it repaired but it was worth it.
As pathetic as it sounds, it was like a dog I hadn’t seen in a year or a childhood friend…You see, I’ve never owned any sort of pet, not even a fish, so this feeling was probably the closest I’ll ever get to that.
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The past 10 months of my life, musically, has revolved around nothing but ballads and popular chord progressions. In an attempt to absorb the Taiwanese music culture, I slowly stopped listening to some of my favorite bands from my life prior to professional audio and started listening exclusively to Taiwanese popular music. Sadly, this has really caused me to forget the reasons why I started loving and listening to music in the first place. The creativity and unpredictability of bands like Radiohead and The Mars Volta slowly started sounding foreign to my ears.
While my growth as a musician and my ear for music has definitely seen positive improvements, I often feel like these improvements are occurring within a confined box. Sure, a lot of the progressions, notes, and tempos of the bands I love are usually frowned upon in popular music and deemed nonsense but this morning I woke up and listened to the entirety of The Mars Volta’s Deloused in the Comatorium. This is something I had not done in almost a year and it reminded me of how amazing nonsense can sound.
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One of my favorites off Uffie’s new album, Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans. To be honest, a lot of the album disappointed me but there are definitely a few gems and this one is definitely one of them.
Also check out Ricky if you guys get the album.
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This has got to be one of my favorite performances in a long time. Gotta hand it to Cudi, he knows how to perform. This song could have been performed in a very dull manner but the way his hands move with his lyrics is quite hypnotizing. It probably helps that he’s blazed out of his mind.
Also loving Mike Stroud’s body-contorting guitar solo. Fantastic showmanship gentlemen.
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Finally recorded The Eraser with a real mic…the audio quality is still lacking…Need a better mic, oh well, here it is!
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