The musicians I get to work with make me laugh, make me think, and truly delight me with their talent and thoughtful approach to the music we do. This week, all three happened during an incredibly productive rehearsal. I. Love that.
It’s crazy how we all have certain eras of songs burned into our brains. Throughout rehearsal, our B3 player kept being reminded of songs & artists that he used to cover ‘back in the day’ when he played bars every night in the 70′s. Most of his references were lost on me, but I’m sure if I heard the songs I’d get it.
However. The winning song reference of the night….. we were practicing a new song, ‘Glorified’ by Jared Anderson. My good friend who’s a great keyboard player, not even playing this week, walked in the auditorium and said, “Fast Car !!!”
Yeah.
Fast Car (Tracy Chapman) [iTunes link]
Glorified (Jared Anderson) [iTunes link]
What era of songs are part of your ongoing soundtrack?
Wow, it’s even in the same key!
i’m sayin’… you’re a genius.
thats funny!
theres a matt redman song we do “amazing” – that always gets me dancing like Carlton from the fresh prince of bel air.
oh yah. im down.
tam… tell mr. tam he needs to get some video of that. :)
glorified is one of my favorite songs… right up there with the theme from fresh prince.
I’ve been having that “eras of music” run-in a lot lately (although not with worship songs, unfortunately), especially at work. My facility manager defines “good music” as mostly 70′s songs; the operations manager knows late-80′s and early 90′s; and I fall somewhere after both of them (with a liberal smattering of Jars of Clay, Steven Curtis Chapman and Switchfoot thrown in). I’ve come to the conclusion that the term “good music” is generally applied to whatever we listened to in our late teens and early 20′s or whatever era of music had the most impact on our formative years.
Not to derail the former conversation, of course, just to share a thought.
matt… what else is on that list?
shara… awesome to hear from you! I think you’re right. Neil calls it the ‘life soundtrack’. What’s a little disturbing is that lately we’ve noticed our ‘life soundtrack’ is what’s playing at the grocery store….