Sing Along With the Ogre

Hey, Readerland.  How we doin, my friends?  Well, I hope.  Thanks are going pretty well on this side.  Finals are done and I got my grades back and I did pretty awesome, I have to say.  Pulled my lecture grade up to a 96.5% from a 90.5% with one test and my lab grade was 100% all semester, so there you go.

Anyway, time to go a different blogging direction than wrestling for the first time in a while.  Today is going to be about music.

I have always enjoyed singing.  I haven't always been good at it, but I've always enjoyed it.  Way back when, when I was in college, I was in the college concert choir and I sang bass and it was a lot of fun.  I always sing along to the radio or my iPod or my show when I'm DJ'ing at PartyFM, which you can hear TODAY, Friday May 6th at 1 pm Eastern at listen.partyfmradio.net.  Okay, enough plugging.  But seriously, you should listen.  I do good work!

Here's the funny part:  whenever I'm in the car (especially in the car) and I'm listening to a song that has both male and female parts (hur hur...female parts) or when there is a deistinct set of backing vocals, I find myself switching into falsetto and singing along with the higher vocal parts or simply falling into the backing vocals.  Here are some examples:

"California Dreaming" by the Mamas and the Papas
"Treat Her Like a Lady" by Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose
"Respect" by Aretha Franklin
"Bring Me To Life" by Evanesence
"8 Days a Week," "Ticket to Ride,"and "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" by The Beatles.  Honestly, I'm sure there are more Beatles songs I do this to, but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

As a side note to the Beatles, I don't even remember how I came across this, but about a year ago I came across this blog that was about a guy who jumped dimensions (I think) and found one where the Beatles never broke up, John was never shot, and they made a album called Every Chemistry, which the blogger grabbed a copy of and brought back with him.  Now, whether you believe the story or not, it's pretty well written, and there's a link to download the album.  I did so and I have to say, it sounds like the Beatles style of music and maybe something they would have done had they continued to record with some of the technology that advanced in the early-to-mid 80's.  Here's a link to the blog:

http://thebeatlesneverbrokeup.com/

When it comes to rap, I tend to enjoy two categories:  rap that's fun, like "Flowin' On the D-Line" by Digital Underground (and honestly, most everything by DU falls into this category, I think) and rap that's inspirational, like Eminem's "Lose Yourself" and "8 Mile" from the 8 Mile soundtrack, as well as Eminem with Lil' Wayne on "No Love" from Recovery.  I enjoy learning an artist's flow and I'm still working on the flow and lyrics from "No Love."

I'm sure I've amused some other drivers since I like to sing when I'm in the car.  For an experiment for a Psychology class a couple of semesters ago, I had to break a social taboo, so I chose singing on the bus, since it was natural for me anyway.  I usually don't sing out loud on the bus, but it wasn't a stretch to do so.  I didn't sing overly loud and I didn't sing anything offensive, because I didn't want to get kicked off the bus for being an assclown.  Anyway, this one lady kept looking at me, but didn't ask me to stop.  I guess she was hoping I would just stop on my own.  I acknowledged her, but kept it up.  Finally, at her stop, he glared at me and got off the bus.  I hurried off after her and apologized and explained what I was doing and why I was doing it.  She wasn't amused and told me that I was annoying.  I kind of shrugged it off and put that in my paper on doing the project.

Anyway, I'll keep on singing and enjoying music while doing so.  Hopefully you'll keep doing something you enjoy as well.

Until next time, be awesome to each other.  WWWYKI.