Look. I have another song to obsess
over!!
Those of you who read this on a regular
basis know that I often get a song stuck in my head, and then it
won't let go. Heck, it even happened just last month when C&C
Music Factory's “Here We Go” took up semi-permanent residence in
my brain. Well, it's happened again, and this time I have my
birthday to thank for it.
Technically, I have Loraine and the
gift she gave me for it. For my birthday, Loraine usually gives me
CDs she thinks I might like, and this year's was Lenny Kravitz's
“Raise Vibration”. She heard clips of it earlier this year, and
when she noticed that it's STRONGLY influenced by 70s R&B she
knew it's for me.
She was right.
It's a really good album, filled with
grooves that just stick in your head. But my favorite song on the
disc (or at least my favorite so far) is a song called “It's
Enough”, which is what a song would be like if Marvin Gaye's “Inner
City Blues” and the Temptations “Papa Was a Rolling Stone” had
a love child. It's eight minutes of musical perfection—a bass line
that propels a groove that just won't stop, socially conscious
lyrics, and, six minutes into the tune, a trumpet solo that you have
to hear to believe.
It's really, really good. And it's a
perfect example of why songs set up camp in my brain and won't let
go.
Since I have to go play TV host, I'll
just leave it at that. Or at this--
Listen to it at your own peril. And
have a great weekend while you're at it, as well!
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