Archive for February 2012
my new favorite thing in the world
Hey, how are you doing? I kinda blog here from time to time, so feel free to check back in three or four months and if you’re lucky there may be some other trivial bullshit posted.
I was listening to Toucher and Rich on my drive to work the other day and they were playing clips of isolated vocal tracks from famous rock songs. I kinda dug hearing “Detroit Rock City” and you must listen to David Lee Roth’s vocal of “Running With The Devil.” When I got to work I searched around and found that there’s a small cottage industry devoted to posting videos of famous songs stripped of everything but the vocals. I don’t pretend to know the reason for this.
One song I noticed a video for was “Gimme Shelter,” and I resolved to listen to it as soon as I got home. Not only is it one of my favorite songs ever but I was dying to hear what Merry Clayton’s voice would sound like without a cloud of guitar and drums surrounding it. Safe to say, it’s almost unbearably awesome. I absolutely love it when her voice cracks during the “Rape, murder…” part and you can hear Mick holler “Whoo!” in appreciation.
