Music Review

Oooh music reviews, what to pick, what to pick? Honestly, right at this moment, I still have no clue what song I’m going to pick. There are so many good songs, that the field is much too wide. I’m not one of those people that only listen to one type of music, on my Top 25 most played in iTunes; I have Kanye West, Taylor Swift, The Script, some random DJ, A Day to Remember, Four Year Strong, Brand New, Death Cab for Cutie and Miley Cyrus’s (ew. p.s. her bong video? hilarious!) Party in the U.S.A. I like so-called “undiscovered” stuff just as much as I like mainstream stuff. Whether the song is decades old by artists such as Cat Stevens or Frank Sinatra or released a few months ago, like Ke$ha's "We R Who We R" or Sugarland's "Stuck Like Glue". And the whole time I’m writing this I have been YouTube-ing songs that I don’t have in my iTunes, like the cover of “Creep” from The Social Network, my song is still undecided.

I think part of my indecision is that when I don’t have a specific taste that the song won’t be reflective of all of it, just a small piece. But if you read the first paragraph then you’d get it.

"Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature."
- Ravi Shankar

So I’m going to pick an old but classic, ”Cat’s in the Cradle” written and sung by Harry Chapin from the album Verities & Balderdash. It’s the essence of folk music, it tells a story, granted not a happy one. It is about a son who wants to grow up to be just like his dad, but his dad blows him off so many times that the roles switch, and it’s the dad who is asking to spend time with the son who has grown used to not having his dad around. It often gets stuck in my head, and my brother sings it all the time, which is okay because it’s a great song.

So technically reviewing this song, I don’t find anything wrong with it. I don’t expect everyone to love it, but I do, and really that’s all that counts.

This review has gotten me YouTube-ing not only Harry Chapin, but Cat Stevens and Frank Sinatra, all great artists. YouTube them.

Harry Chapin - Cats in the Cradle
Cat Stevens - Wild World
Frank Sinatra - That's Life
Antoine Dodson - Bed Intruder
Kanye West - Power


^On repeat while writing this blog. The two groups combined is interesting... but good... but very interesting together.