{"id":3267,"date":"2012-12-26T12:20:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T17:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2012-12-26T12:20:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T17:20:09","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-396-21st-century-worth-mentioning-about-the-aughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/12\/26\/my-musical-evolution-part-396-21st-century-worth-mentioning-about-the-aughts\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 396 21st Century Worth Mentioning About The Aughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Vashti<\/a>Vashti Bunyan , no relation to Paul apparently, was another of those songs that came via a commercial on the NFL Network. It might have been under armor or something. I’m having difficulty trying to explain what it was about the song that was so attractive. Vashti’s voice had this sort of soft purity about it.\u00a0 The guitar accompaniment continued that feeling. There is something sad and haunting about it.<\/p>\n

The Train Song<\/em> wasn’t the only song that came to me as part of an advertisement. Most people associate Mad World<\/em> with Donnie Darko<\/em> in my mind it belongs with a video game. Gears Of War <\/em>I Think.\u00a0 <\/em>Something about that song seemed familiar. I searched my media library and found that\u00a0I had the original version on a Tears For Fears CD that I had owned for decades.\u00a0Different but stii good.\u00a0It seems that most people saw Donnie Darko then looked for the song. I heard the song in a completely different context then watched Donnie Darko because of it.<\/p>\n

I bought Tomita’s Snowflakes Are Dancing<\/em> because it contained the song Arabesque <\/em> which was the theme for Star Hustler \/ Star Gazer<\/em> which I had been watching on PBS for decades. Yeah, I miss Jack Horkheimer. I wouldn’t have know what song it was had I not stopped by the Star Gazer website one day and stumbled upon What is that song<\/em> in the FAQ section. When I found out it was Tomita, it was a no brainer to add another Tomita CD to my Eclectic Collection.<\/em><\/p>\n

Of course, even through the Aughts<\/em> the traditional influences remained in play.<\/p>\n

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Vashti Bunyan – The Train Song<\/em>
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