New Music: Sean Lennon

I can't believe I haven't written anything about the magnificent Sean Lennon here yet! I discovered him for real in around 2006, but I post it now as new music, because I believe too few people have heard this.

I have always thought that Mr.Lennon was the exciting Beatle, so I thought to myself... "Wait a minute, that Sean Lennon, he must be one talented guy with those parents, what kind of things have he done." So I searched him up on the internet, and there it was: Such great music. The scariest thing, that should not scare me, but still did, was the fact that his voice and way of writing music sounds so so much like his father. The melodies are just delightful, springy and catchy and the voice, yes, we have heard that voice before. I was awestruck and still is.

Young Mr. Lennon is not surprisingly involved in all kinds of musical and artistic past-times in New York, and I must take my time some day to sit down and read up on it all, and I will tell you more then. For now, let the great music speak.

Ah! And I of course was reminded that his whole name is of course Sean Ono Lennon, thanks to his brilliant website..

Sean Lennon on Spotify.

And here are some videos:


This one can't be built in, but is equally great:
Parachutes

Great songs & great lyrics: God - John Lennon

As most other people in the world, I am also a fan of The Beatles, but I have always liked John Lennon more than Paul for some reason. I always like his songs more. I have been listening a lot to different LastFm radio stations lately and suddenly this song came quite randomly that made me really listen to the lyrics. I rarely do that, so it was quite exceptional. It turned out that it was "God" by John Lennon. I love how intense his voice is in this one and how he screams the lyrics from his soul. They are so raw and straight forward and for the most part I agree with him. I love how they describe the state of mind he was in and how there was really no sense in most things.. Hearing him: "I don't believe in The Beatles" and how the dream is over is quite overpowering... :) I also love "I was the walrus, but now I am John".

More about the song on Wikipedia.

Apperantly this is an alternate version, but this is the one I first heard, so it's my favorite.



This the official version with some quite sad but good footage connected to the death of John Lennon:

God is a concept,
By which we can measure,
Our pain,
I'll say it again,
God is a concept,
By which we can measure,
Our pain,
I don't believe in magic,
I don't believe in I-ching,
I don't believe in bible,
I don't believe in tarot,
I don't believe in Hitler,
I don't believe in Jesus,
I don't believe in Kennedy,
I don't believe in Buddha,
I don't believe in mantra,
I don't believe in Gita,
I don't believe in yoga,
I don't believe in kings,
I don't believe in Elvis,
I don't believe in Zimmerman,
I don't believe in Beatles,
I just believe in me,
Yoko and me,
And that's reality.
The dream is over,
What can I say?
The dream is over,
Yesterday,
I was dreamweaver,
But now I'm reborn,
I was the walrus,
But now I'm John,
And so dear friends,
You just have to carry on,
The dream is over.

Great covers: Travis - Lovely Rita

I am not only a huge Radiohead fan, I also really really love Travis, though not quite to that extreem as Radiohead (This kind of sounds like a 12 year old deciding which boy she is more in love with, right?). A friend once came into my room while I was watching some clips of Travis from the studio, and he says it was like seeing someone watch their old friends from high school. I was talking very load and very enthusiastically about things like some funny new joke they did probably.

Anyways, this is not the time to describe my feelings for Travis. That calls for a separate post later ;) This one though is for Travis' lovely cover of Beatles' Lovely Rita. It is exceptionally good. Travis are really really good at doing covers that sound so similar to the original that it's scary. That is of course somewhat boring, but still very very beautiful. This was made when Sgt. Pepper had it's 40th anniversary and there are a lot of good covers to, that I am sure I will return to later.

There are two clips available. The first one is of the whole process of the recording, and the second one is just the song, so you can adjust your choice to your need of Travis triviata and enjoyment, or like seeing songs get produced. Crazy people like me, like to watch both ;) Oh it's recorded by the man that recorded the original and resulted in Travis new album also being recorded on an 4 track, like the original. (Supposedly in 3 weeks! The Travis album that is.. ) Will be very exciting.


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