That was my assignment for my music history class.
Bring in the best piece of music known to you
emphasis on the instrumental was implied...
and.. I sat there.. in my make shift seat-desk thing... in front of this little Scottish man with a thing for opera - staring at him.
The best piece of music ever written..
Is that even possible to determine?
so.. first thing that popped in my head: Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
but then.. I said wait no...
there were others
and so I went home
and searched and search my music library
and came up with a few
but me being me, I had to stick with the bay bands.
slowly I developed a list
and about half the list had songs from bay bands..
and I chuckled to myself..
so.. since that day..
people have brought in the Ave Maria sung by Josh Grobin and then some other religious song that was a duet ... and then someone brought in this other song that was jazzy and all instrumental and honestly sounded to me like really really bad hold music.. it was too terrible to even be elevator music.. but that was my opinion... so... yea..
and then I consider my list.. and I have Cohen on there and Queen and the
and I chuckled again..
silly me
how I refuse to completely conform or more just half ass assignments like this
I could bring in some grand instrumental by Mozart or something sung by Charlotte Church in her early days and be golden.
but no,
I must spend a good portion of my evenings, sitting and listening to music, all the possibilities.
entirely rejecting settling for a song that just seems to fit, but is by far not the best piece of music written
but being that my teacher is who he is.. i am going to stray away from many of the more rockish songs for his sake and the sake of my future in his class
and with that i am limited
so maybe the songs I have chosen to chose from (haha) aren't the BEST ever... but from what I could find and the mood I was in they are my selections
hallelujah - Leonard Cohen (covered by Dave Smallen)
Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen
... woulda also picked Chelsea Hotel No.2 if I didn't feel I might get bitched out for semi indecent content ... I was really in a Cohen mood
Dust and Bones - Audrye Sessions
Air Raid - Judgment Day (one of the few judgment day songs I have.. what a tragedy)
Mary Lee - Poor Bailey
Truce - The Dresden Dolls
Somebody To Love - Queen ('cause Queen is just awesome like that.. and Bohemian Rhapsody is just so overdone).. and I was listening to queen while writing this.. and I have now just taken the song off the list.. and then I thought Bicycle Race.. and then I went ADFHGDFSHFSHFDGFHDFHTRGEWFWEFSADKJNKJ I CANT CHOOOOOOSE!
I also thought Beatles but there were too many songs to sort through
I'm also kinda in a Billy Joel mood... best music ever written? not so much
maybe I should just bring in Galvanize by the Chemical Brothers and ruin my teacher's life..
or Britney Spears.. hmmm... that would generate some interesting results..
my selections are biased
i would think.
maybe its some inner satisfaction I'll get from playing those songs in class
thinking yea, I chose something a bit off the beaten path
or mhmmm, and I know the artists too
music makes people cool.
also the song choice could be influenced by the fact that out of the bands I like theirs had the most classical backing instrumental or opera like tendencies that I think my teacher might like 'cause deep down I'm a suck up or some shit
maybe I just wanna be edgy.
or maybe not.
maybe its cause even though there may be better written music out there,
these songs deserve recognition. or at least the artists in general
maybe I'll play a Cohen song and then ask people to raise their hands if they know who it was that wrote the song they just heard..
i bet anyone 10 bucks that no one does
double or nothing that not even my teacher does
...the best piece of music ever written...
I give up.
oh oh or maybe I'll choose....
