by Frank J. Oteri | Aug 27, 2020 | Song of the Day
Song Form Unformed and Reformed I pondered yesterday that the blame for the current use of the word “song” to describe every kind of musical composition, which I think trivializes the art of songwriting, is possibly traceable to some jazz musicians who...
by Frank J. Oteri | Aug 26, 2020 | Song of the Day
Who is the auteur, the composer, the lyricist, the singer, or the arranger? For the first installment of this series, I wrote primarily about songs by all kinds of singer-songwriters who not only created both the words and the music but were also the songs’...
by Frank J. Oteri | Aug 25, 2020 | Song of the Day
Marrying Words to Music I began this series for the No Song is Safe From Us blog with an attempt to define what a song is at a time when the word is widely used in everyday speech to connote all music and also to attempt to try to understand...
by Frank J. Oteri | Aug 24, 2020 | Song of the Day
Can Song Be Explained in a World Where Everything’s a Song? Having become a huge fan of NYFOS only somewhat recently (within the last four seasons), I was thrilled to be asked to contribute a week of posts to No Song is Safe from Us. But I must confess to feeling...
by Jamie Bernstein | Aug 21, 2020 | Song of the Day
Our final Fagen song this week is from his astonishing solo album Kamakiriad. It’s a concept album: a long, shaggy, sci-fi romp in a futuristic car. The songs have a loose, funky, jiggly joy that make this album perfect on a long car trip, or when you’re cleaning...
by Jamie Bernstein | Aug 20, 2020 | Song of the Day
This wasn’t the first cut on the Gaucho album to speak to me; it took me a while to warm up to it. It is, in fact, not exactly a warm song. But suddenly I couldn’t get enough of it. It’s understated, boppy, and subtle as hell. The lyrics, like so many of...
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