Sunday, April 19, 2009

''In Too Deep'' : Genesis

Even though i only want to record dance tracks i find the enjoyment of listening to classic soft rock or any nostalgic genre of music for the matter. Just when i thought Phil Collins had enough string of hits like the Beatles, i find out that he was with a band prior to his solo career called Genesis was just astonished as to how successfully Phil Collins was as artist cause not only did i think Phil Collins had an amazing collection of songs, but i thought the Genesis songs sounded even better. Because of the fact that i didn't know Phil Collins was in a band, it took me a very long time to find the artist of this song after hearing on the radio in high school, titled ''In Too Deep''. You can say this is my number one Genesis song cause i catch myself in the mirror at home singing to it all the time while pretending to be Phil Collins.I might not look like the person who does impersonations but we all have our guilty pleasures. I'm just a sucker for the classics. I can't help it.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Underrated Music.

Are you one of those music listeners who would listen to a whole album by an artist and come across some great tracks that you thought should've been promoted as singles? it doesn't necessarily have to be random tracks from an album. it could be songs that made it to the radio top 40 but to you, they deserved to be #1 because of the creativity of the song or it could be songs made by an independent artist cause music isn't always enjoyable just because it comes from a major record label. That just means more money from tons of promotion and a lot of media exposure. I feel as though there are so many songs that exist that should've been exposed for the hard work put into them without the cost of promotion and the image of the artist overshadowing the genuine reason why that artist exist in the first place. Would you agree? As a heavy music listener, i love underrated records so much better than your everyday top 5 tracks cause you have the power to hear what you want on your MP3 player, instead of hearing what the common mainstream artist wants you to hear through radio promotion. To show how great underrated songs are, i posted one of my favorite one-hit wonder classics released in 1994, which is the reggae inspired ''Lucas With the Lid off'' by the artist Lucas. The video was also aired on MTV when the network was actually a music network. What's your favorite underrated song?