Snow Patrol

Snow Patrol is one of my favorite bands. I don't know why, but it's taken me a while to listen to all their albums.  The first time I heard one of their older albums, A Hundred Million Suns, I didn't like it that much only a couple songs off of it. But when I listen to it now, I really like it. It seems like it takes a while for some of their work to grow on me, but overall I love them.  Gary Lightbody has probably one of my favorite voices ever, besides Ed Sheeran which is another reason why I like them so much.  My favorite album would have to be Fallen Empires or Final Straw. I was going to go to a Snow Patrol concert but I couldn't get the tickets in time which is a real bummer. They're definitely a band that I'm going to go see in concert some day.

One of my favorite songs by them, "Run"

 

This is probably their most popular recent song now, "Called Out In The Dark"



Zep 1

My mom has been asking me ever since the first day of school when we were going to listen to Led Zepplin. She was a huge Zepplin fan in high school and went to one of his concerts.  I had heard of Zepplin in the movie School of Rock and always pictured them as a hard rock band so it was hard for me to beleive that my mom used to listen to them. When we listened to them in class, I did not like them that much. I'm not a big hard rock person so that's probably why.  I mean I think electric guitars and drums are cool but the crazy rockstars aren't really my thing.  I feel like Zepplin really sparked hard rock and heavy metal because other than Jimi Hendrix, no one really rocked out that hard with the electric guitars and had that angry screaming sound to them.

Zola Jesus

Earlier this week, my friend introduced me to the artist Zola Jesus. She said that she heard at at ACL  and she was really good so I checked her out. When I was looking at her albums, the cover art for her album Stridulum really stood out to me. It is freaking creepy. So when I was listening to her songs from the album I just kept looking at the album cover and it was scaring me so I had trouble listening to her.  But then a couple days ago I listened to her again and she sounded a lot like Flourence from Flourence and the Machine. I thought this was interesting because Flourence, I thought, had a very unique voice and I had never heard anything like her.
Zola Jesus, the more I listened to her, the more I liked her. One thing that I don't really like is that on her album Stridulum majority of her songs start out with a really long intrumental intro. My favorite songs by her are "In Your Nature", "Skin", and "Night". "Night" is pretty scary at the beginning but it's still a good song. If you like Florence and the Machine then I definitely think you will enjoy Zola.

This is her song "Night" which has the picture of her freaky album on it.

 

My favorite song by her, "In Your Nature" David Lynch remix.

Abbey Road

Abbey Road was by far my favorite Beatles album. It sounded a lot more modern than their older albums. The White Album and and Sargent Peppers had kind of a retro sound to them and they were a little weird for me.  I still liked them, but literally every song on Abbey Road I liked.  There were some songs on it that I didn't know was written by the Beatles. For example, "Come Together",
"Here Comes The Sun" and "Something". For some reason I thought they were written by the Stones or something. 
One thing that I especially enjoy about this album is that the last songs (not including "Majesty") are all synced together to form one song. It actually blew my mind when we listened to it because I had never heard anything like that before.  I don't know how the Beatles did it, but it sounds so cool it's insane. It legit sounds like one song and how they bring the melody from the first song back into one of the songs at the end is genius.

"You Never Give Me Your Money" was the first song in the medley and I absolutely loved it. I wish they had just continued the song and have it be slow rather than speed up but it was a great way to start out the super long song.

 

 

"Maxwell's Silver Hammer" was hilarious but freaky creepy. It had a really catchy tune to it but I have no idea how you would come up with the idea to write a song like this.

 

 

I wish the Beatles were young and how they were back then today because I would definitely listen to them a ton and love them much more. It would be pretty cool to be alive while the Beatles were extremely popular and not just some old rockers like they are now.