Music
As I stood in the Seattle Center stadium on the last night of the Bumbershoot festival, listening to the crowd sing along as Death Cab For Cutie played “I Will Follow You Into the Dark,” the smell of the ocean filled the air and the seagulls that flew overhead gleamed white against the darkening sky. People in the stands sported twinkling, blue, glow-in-the-dark pins that looked like thousands of open cell phones and I found myself thinking about how completely invigorating it is to see a band play live.
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It’s certainly tough to put a new spin on much beloved original such as the Eurythmics’ "Sweet Dreams" and have most people love it, but some musicians can take anything from a huge hit to songs that are just OK and turn them into masterpieces.
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I was cruisin’ in my ride and singing along to the Guns ‘n’ Roses “Greatest Hits” CD the other day when I thought, “Hmm…G’n’R rocks, but they sure did do a lot of covers.”
Fortunately, most of them are good, but I was suddenly reminded of one god-awful (in my opinion, anyway) cover: Sheryl Crow’s 1999 take on the classic “Sweet Child o’ Mine.”
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Since attending my first concert at age 12, I’ve been hooked on seeing musicians live. Sure, their records sound flawless and uninterrupted at home, but a concert can provide a glimpse of the person behind the tunes, reinterpretations of favorite songs, the opportunity to enjoy it in with a room (or stadium) full of others who also dig the artist, and more.
But there are always a few folks who put a damper on the shows and my mood.
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The club is packed, the music’s rockin’ and the stage lights are perfectly illuminating the hot frontman of the band you’re seeing. You gaze up adoringly at him, silently gloating to yourself that he’s your man and no one else’s.
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Even at the ripe old age of 29, I feel like I'm closer to 18 than 30. And judging from the tunes on my iPod, I may as well be, because my taste in music is firmly stuck in the past.
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See a certain celebrity’s name pop up in the news and you just know it’s for nothing good. Courtney Love used to be the perfect example. Then it was Pete Doherty. For a long period of time it was Britney Spears. Now it’s Amy Winehouse. There’s no question the woman is talented, but will she ever get to share any more of her talents, or will she self-destruct first?
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Remember back before my leave when we were discussing misheard song lyrics? And some people would comment and insist that people were just gleefully making up their "wrong" lyrics, that no one could be so dumb as to get that confused?
Readers, I am here to assure you: I am that dumb.
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It seems that it's easy to mishear a lyric in almost any song out there. But some songs, and some singers, show up much more than others. Here are some of the songs that just come out as one big mumble. Call them songs in the key of slur, or maybe the misheard lyrics hall of fame.
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The misheard lyrics comments have been hilarious. Two songs especially have started debates -- Keith Urban's "You'll Think of Me" and Toto's "Africa." In Urban's song, he does indeed sing, "Take your CAT and leave my sweater," but a reader comment saying that he hears "take your CAP" has started a bunch of readers buzzing, thinking they've been hearing it wrong all this time. Now I'm no Keith Urban expert, but the "CAT' version is indeed given on his Web site as the correct lyrics for the song. Meow!
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