18 June 2009

A good song when you wake up means it will be a good day

Secret Songs:


what the hell.
you know how great bands decide that after a rather long song on track 13 that goes on forever and ever then finally ends, yet doesn't skip to the next track, but keeps on going in silence...
until finally.... the secret song starts playing?

Here's my question: What are we supposed to do with the time between the secret song and the end of the eleven minute track before it? Five, even sometimes up to ten minutes of waiting in silence and anticipation. Are you supposed to talk? Or is that rude...like talking RIGHT in the middle of a great chord in a perfect song. This tactic of the secret song is not good for impatient people.

Here are your options: you could press forward. But then you risk accidentally pressing too hard and then the whole album starts again from the beginning and then you could try again but you risk it yet another time. And you don't want to just fast forward through the song before the secret song because somehow they are connected, like high heals, a cigarette and Frank Sinatra.
Everyone knows what I’m talking about. It's a trap I tell you.

And the craziest thing about the secret song is that it's usually always SO good. The whole album could potentially suck, but that one random track tucked in between silence and distant harmonies can make you download the whole virus filled track before it, just to get a listen to them jamming in the back of a studio pretending like the mics aren't on.
So you are forced to wait or take crazy risks in hopes to put just the right touch on the seek button.

The greatest though is if you are casually listening to the whole album and without realizing it you are listening to silence as you continue your business and then ALL OF A SUDDEN, without any warning, there it is.

The first few beats start and you look up from your work and start smiling hysterically because YOU DID IT. and you can listen to it with no stress about button pushing or impatience sitting in dreadful silence. you can enjoy the song as it is supposed to be enjoyed. with your whole, open heart.

and there goes the secret.