Category: Music

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 – The Soundtrack

This has got to be my favourite soundtrack. (At least at the moment anyway)

  1. Mr Blue Sky – ELO
  2. Fox on the Run – Sweet
  3. Lake Shore Drive – Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah
  4. The Chain – Fleetwood Mac
  5. Bring it on Home to Me – Sam Cooke
  6. Southern Nights – Glen Campbell
  7. My Sweet Lord – George Harrison
  8. Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl) – Looking Glass
  9. Come a Little Bit Closer – Jay and the Americans
  10. Wham Ban Shang-A-Lang – Silver
  11. Surrender – Cheap Trick
  12. Father and Son – Cat Stevens
  13. Flash Light Parliament

I can’t stop listening to it on Spotify. I don’t know whether it’s the great ness of the movie that resonates when you play it or whether it’s just simply a clever collection of songs.

So two pieces of advice, 1. If you haven’t seen the film, what are you doing? Get it watched! 2. (Once you have seen the film or even before) get listening to the soundtrack however you can, Spotify, YouTube…. No excuses when the links are there. Go on! I think you’ll enjoy

Love Emily

 

Obsession by Ok Go – My New Favourite Music Video

I’m going to keep this one short and sweet.

My friend at work showed me a video today. Frankly I’m in awe.

I’ve always loved music videos. I used to spend hours flicking through the music channels on sky annoying the hell out of my mum. I know this isn’t abnormal or certainly wasn’t in the late 90s early 00s but it started my fascination with music videos. Music has always been a major part of my life but having something visual to represent music can be spectacular.

How does someone come up with the concept?

I had a project to make a music video when I was at College studying media. We chose an unreleased Busted song and created a very basic, but realistic video that showed the relationship between a boy and a girl.

At University I had to create a video of around 5 minutes and me and my housemates decided to do a music video to the longest song we could think of at the time, which turned out to be One More Time by Daft Punk. We were incredibly lazy. Filmed and edited the whole thing over a number of days in our student house and that was it. Done!

Looking through the repertoire of videos that have been done by OK Go, you can appreciate their creativity. Single shots, use of colour, innovativeness, they do set the bar quite high. You can appreciate the amount of time and planning that goes in to creating these videos and for what purpose? Pure entertainment (and to advertise paper).

I just thought I’d share this with you all.

xoxoxox