I have been sitting here...
Christ my webcam sucks...
SO yeah anyway, I'm sitting here listening to a a bunch of new music, well new to me. I downloaded something called BREAKONOMICS. I now have sixty albums (yes I said SIXTY) of some of the most amazing "back beat" orientated songs I have ever heard.
*clears throat*, uhhum.
In music, a "back beat" is a term applied to a specific style of rhythmic accentuation with accent on even beats. The term can also apply to those even beats themselves.
How about some examples:
Sharon Jones & Dap Kings @ Amoeba: How Do I Let A Good Man Down?
(Please excuse the Muppet dancing around the restaurant.)
Donny Hathaway - Jealous Guy
(who would have thought that someone could sing a john Lennon song better then Paul McCartney, Ouch!)
Placebo - Humpty Dumpty
(it was either the album cover or someone calling the intro gay, the latter made me chuckle.)
Keith Mansfield - Funky Fanfare
(made famous by people sampling the shit out of it.)
That ends the music lesson.
I'm blown away about the sheer number of songs that I have NEVER heard before, as eclectic of a music fan as I am, and I am just scratching the surface of this genre. I'm so excited it's kind of ridiculous. So I guess what I'm trying to get across is this.
Marching to the beat of a different drummer is only worth it IF said drummer can keep time.
What have you been playing game-wise these days?
-TM