Gourmet Dining as Meaning: An essential ingredient for a full-flavored song.There's a difference between eating because you haven't in 5 hours, and eating intentionally. The difference between good food and merely filling your gut.I know a lot people listen to music and don't pay any attention to the lyrics. I...
MSG as the Hook: An essential ingredient for a full-flavored song.There's a reason you like Chinese take-out so much. After all, you've made meat and vegetable stir fy on your own plenty of times, but never crave that nearly as much. Why? MSG. It's an addictive chemical additive. And it...
Umami as Ethereral: An essential ingredient for a full-flavored song.The flavor "Umami" is a recent creation in the world of food. It seems like 4 tastes weren't enough. Because there was this "other" that didn't fit anywhere. How do you define "brothy", "savory", "meaty"? Ok. Umami.It's a new sound in...
Sweet as Sweetness: An essential ingredient for a full-flavored song.Boyz II Men is saccharine. The ultimate example of a one-note flavor. And it's a great one. It's arguably the most important. Beauty. It's important enough to carry a lot of bands. And it's also the big reason why some people say...
Potato Chip Crunch as Beats: An essential ingredient for a full-flavored song. I guess I should have mentioned at the beginning of the week my original theory that "we are simply too satisfied by OK music. And that's why we never get to the good stuff." Hip hop is a...
Salt as Syncopation: An essential ingredient for a full-flavored song. Thanks for your comments yesterday. We will definitely get to several of those bands/songs this week based on their respective flavors. Today, an analysis of U2, along with the video above of "Where the Streets Have No Name". U2 is...
Music is awesome. And I'm still convinced that music is what i'm supposed to be doing with my life. Whether that's simply a delusion of grandeur or not, we'll see. But at this point, I'm convinced. The problem is, I don't know exactly what that's supposed to look like.That's why...
After yet another guffaw from a family member around the Christmas table this year, my wife leaned over to me and whispered, "Well, on the plus side, you always get great blog material here."She's right.Specifically, what I got with that exchange was wonderful insight into what the average apathetic churchgoer...
