Holiday Music

This is one of my favorite times of the year regarding weather and music.  The cold weather makes me want to sit inside and listen to frosty the snowman all day long.  Another perk of holiday music that it is nearly impossible to be in a bad mood while listening to it which makes me listen to it more because it is a very stressful time of year with finals and shopping for presents.  I really like how the sound of music this time of year is a universal sound of happiness and joy.  

White Album

The white album was extremely random; that is just about the only way I can describe it.  I think that the randomness could have been more effective in a shorter album of 10-15 songs rather than 30 songs for over 90 minutes.  Some of the songs like one about Bungalow Bill are not only random within the album but just weird songs in general, no matter the setting.  Another problem that I have is the length of many of many of the songs ranging for less than one minute to more than right minutes.

Jimi Hendrix

I think that Jimi Hendrix may have been the most talented musician that we have listened to so far in class this year.  The part of the movie where he played his guitar with his teeth was just amazing.  I also am still wondering as to why he lit his guitar on fire and then smashed it into pieces. The only logical reason I have thought of is that is was some sort of "sacrifice" toward a greater musical power but that that doesn't make too much sense.  Regarding his musical talent I was very impressed and enjoyed it a lot but his personality seemed rather odd.

Zeppelin

My biggest critique for Zeppelin so far is that there are too many guitar solos.  I mean they are very well done but I am just not a fan of instrumentals.  I enjoy a song the most when I can sing along as loud as I can and as bad as I can.  I also think that some of the songs were unnecessarily long which bored me at times.  Other than that I do not have a very serious opinion of his music and/or style of performance. 

Movie

I think it was really cool how a bunch of random parts and gizmos can make a "guitar".  Although the sound is not exactly the same it is still a really awesome thing to do.  The sound of guitar is the key to rock and roll in my opinion and it doesn't matter how you make it as long as it gets the job done.  I also thought it was really cool how the guitar riff could be made so much better with that one device (I can't remember the name of it) but I know it is used for many songs and by many people.