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three music-related things
Aug. 12th, 2025 09:12 am+ My girl Lissie (who I've been following since her song "Everywhere I Go" was used on an episode of Dollhouse) just released a cover of "America" by my boys Simon and Garfunkel. The video is made of home videos from the 40s-70s and I love it so so much. The cover is good but the video really elevates it.
Anyway, watching it made me think of how much I love Lissie's covers. She's actually known for her covers as much as all the songs she's written herself, and for good reason. She has SO many good covers and I like how she'll often go for something really unexpected and outside her genre (folk-rock singer-songwriter, basically).
+ I've been listening to a lot of The Strike lately and I've realized they've written my two favorite songs about being a struggling working band.
+ I Do Not Do video games, but apparently really great music is getting written for video games? Someone posted a clip of a symphony playing a beautiful piece of music, so I went to find it on YouTube, only to find that there's two hours worth of additional music, equally beautiful! Apparently Undertale is a video game that was created by one genius dude and he also wrote all the music for it??? Even though he had no background in music???
Anyway, I've been listening to this a lot and loving it:
Anyway, watching it made me think of how much I love Lissie's covers. She's actually known for her covers as much as all the songs she's written herself, and for good reason. She has SO many good covers and I like how she'll often go for something really unexpected and outside her genre (folk-rock singer-songwriter, basically).
Here's "Pursuit of Happiness" by Kid Cudi:
"And Nothing Else Matters" by Nirvana:
"Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga:
"Go Your Own Way" by Fleetwood Mac:
"2000 Miles" by the Pretenders:
"Wrecking Ball" which is apparently by Miley Cyrus:
"And Nothing Else Matters" by Nirvana:
"Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga:
"Go Your Own Way" by Fleetwood Mac:
"2000 Miles" by the Pretenders:
"Wrecking Ball" which is apparently by Miley Cyrus:
+ I've been listening to a lot of The Strike lately and I've realized they've written my two favorite songs about being a struggling working band.
"Painkillers" is IMO the very best song ever written about being a wedding band. It may not have a lot of competition lol! But I just think it's so clever and moving (and has a great hook)--the singer is reminding themself of why they have to play the same songs over and over at every wedding--because they're painkillers for the people listening and give them a way to escape reality for a hours and go back to when they were young. The bridge is "tonight we're going to dance our pain away," which should give you some idea of the song.
The other one is, imo, an even stronger song. "Down" is just about the struggle to make it. The singer is asking themself, "Why are we still doing this? Why have we invested so many years into this even though we've never struck big?"
"Another night sleeping in the car
Wondering what we’re even looking for
Burning the gas that we can’t afford
To heal the broken hearts
"And they still call up the radio stations
And ask us how we’re not so frustrated
Because they saw us way back in 15
And I say I’m not sure where the time goes."
The answer is the magic of live music, tbh.
Anyway, I love both of these songs madly.The other one is, imo, an even stronger song. "Down" is just about the struggle to make it. The singer is asking themself, "Why are we still doing this? Why have we invested so many years into this even though we've never struck big?"
"Another night sleeping in the car
Wondering what we’re even looking for
Burning the gas that we can’t afford
To heal the broken hearts
"And they still call up the radio stations
And ask us how we’re not so frustrated
Because they saw us way back in 15
And I say I’m not sure where the time goes."
The answer is the magic of live music, tbh.
+ I Do Not Do video games, but apparently really great music is getting written for video games? Someone posted a clip of a symphony playing a beautiful piece of music, so I went to find it on YouTube, only to find that there's two hours worth of additional music, equally beautiful! Apparently Undertale is a video game that was created by one genius dude and he also wrote all the music for it??? Even though he had no background in music???
Anyway, I've been listening to this a lot and loving it:
