Bradley Nelsen's very own music 1010 blog

Week Nine Bradley Nelsen          I shot the Sherrif          Eric Clapton         Reggae is one of the most unique song genres. Both in sound, with its odd twangy guitar riffs, and in origin, being songs from jamaica that casually found their way to the states due to accidental radio stations overlapping. This "trippy" sound that briefly followed psychedelic rock took America by storm. It was fresh and foreign, with its inspiration drawn from Africa, and gave Jamaican singers, like Bob Marley, a chance at the American dream. Reggae gained a huge following from young adults and college students (A.K.A Dope Smokers) and in turn, Reggae inspired select musicians as well.             Eric Clapton made a variation of I shot the sheriff by Bob Marley that took the classic rock and blues singer on a trip down Reggae avenue. Perhaps this was Eric Clapton's attempt at psychedelic ...

  Week Eight Bradley Nelsen          Hotel California       The Eagles               California is one of America's most popular and populated areas across the nation. Often California is seen as this flawless place with friendly locals, local shops, and crafts with endless beaches with parties on every block on every weekend. But The Eagle's song "Hotel California" gives kind of a different tone to this supposed lovely place. "Hotel California" sings about the "excess in America" and how the California that was sung about by the beach boys in the 1960s isn't what it used to be. As I previously mentioned, California has been portrayed as this wonderful region, but in all reality, it's pretty... overrated. In the song, Don Felder asks the captain 'please bring me my wine' but the captain turns him down saying 'we haven't had that spirit since nineteen sixty-nine' meaning that California ain't what ...

  Week Seven Bradley Nelsen         Rolling like a stone     Bob Dylan          One of Bob Dylan's most popular songs, Rolling Like a Stone, Is an excellent example of what his music is like and what things he tried to talk about in his music. Rolling Like a Stone is a good representative of Bob Dylan's Music. A balladic song that tells the story of how life has its ups and downs, how it feels to sometimes have someone you once trusted take from you. Albeit the words are a little confusing, and somewhat vague. But that is what makes Bob Dylan's music so unique. He tries to make his works universal, and applicable to any situation.  The folk music that is played on electronic guitars is a unique genre of music that was a pioneer for the 60's famous psychedelic rock.           Bob Dylan as we all know started out as a folk singer until at a music festival in the 60s he had a rock and roll b...

  Week Six Bradley Nelsen              Be My baby     Performed by the Ronnets     Composed by Phil Spector          Be my Baby is such a simple song, A cookie-cutter, Upbeat, love song that has shaped several future songs for years to come. But despite its simplicity, this song is great, Not to mention a great example of love songs in this era and a great example of Phil Spector's work. Phil Spector is one of the greatest composers and songwriters of his time, who got to work some of the best bands of the era, like the Ronnets and even The Temptations. Phil Spector's "wall of sound" trope that he is famous for is extremely evident in this song. There are always Drums in the background paired with some fast-paced maracas. Be my baby, being a passionate song about love and kisses, is definitely targeted towards a younger audience, another cornerstone for Phil Spector's songs being claimed as "Teenag...

  Week Five Bradley Nelsen             Sh-Boom         The Chords                         The Chord's version of Sh-Boom is probably one of the more popular tracks selected by students for their blog. I will be hoping onto this tradition as well, In an attempt to share some of the nostolgia behind this track for me, and possibly some of the nostolgia felt for the people listening to it for the first time in 1954. Sh-boom was a doo-wop, R&B song that was released right as that style of music was beggining to die down and right as Rock and Roll was beggining to rear its head for the first time. But for the dedicated listeners of R&B Sh-boom by the chords was an excellent call back to the genra at its finest. This song was later revived in 2006 by one of our favorite cartoon films Cars. Hearing this song in college after the movie being one of...

  Week Four Bradley Nelsen                    Nature Boy               Nat "King" Cole               Nature boy is an excellent example of what a ballad should be structured like in a song and what it should sound like. A ballad in the music world is a song that tells a story, this story in particular being about our very own "Nature Boy" an enchanted young individual who roams the rocky land and tretcherous waters to tell stories and spread love across the nation. This, being a mystical life with no stress and no worries, is nothing but a fantasy to most. A fantasy that is captured perfectly by the tone and instruments used in the music. The loud horns at the start of the song allow us to envison a decent uppon a lush, green and beautiful world that our beloved nature boy lives in. The woodwind instruments create a mild mannered tone to the image t...