Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Twisted MixTape 19
Back to the Present!! damn! For the last, what …6 or 9 weeks, we’ve all been wandering through time, sort of a combination musico-archeological expedition/pub-crawl/Thursday night in the dormitory (after exams!)/blind-first-date/meeting friends for breakfast… event.
“… oh! hi, good morning. er…the bathroom is over there, I think. yeah, was fun. no, I had a great time! not certain, I thought I saw her go off with them after the second break, no I don’t mind… try the nightstand I think I saw a pack in there. lol really I was amazed at her too…no she warned us about the late 80s… Jen? yeah totally owned the 90s… huh? yeah thanks, should have seen me then …the 60s were amazing even in retrospect… I don’t know, just started looking for my shirt…try over by the balcony… no, doesn’t seem like 5 decades! yeah those kids made it look easy, I don’t really know…probably still out there… yeah, I’ll split a cab. …I agree, what happens on a TMT really would be best remembered strictly between the ‘participants’ yeah…it’s a personality type blog don’t worry no one is gonna see it lol”
I would like to thank Jen (and Kristi) for creating this…this opportunity to re-experience the music over that years, that while always a major part of my life, has been stuffed away in some metaphorical attic..
I will say, however, that I really like the present music ‘Decade’ (->2013). While I don’t have the depth of involvement (in the music scene) that I had during previous Decades, what I do have is much better (as the ‘not young’ everywhere must always say lol) I have the luxury of being in a position to enjoy a wider range of music/musical styles than ever before. My selections today, while not totally definitive, reflect that: (from) The All American Rejects to Avenged Sevenfold to Fred Hammond, each is guaranteed to: bring a smile to my face/a tap to my foot/an increase in speed in my car.
Gives You Hell – The All-American Rejects
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Nightmare – Avenged Sevenfold
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Love Bites (So Do I) – Halestorm
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Banjo – Rascal Flatts
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That Ain’t Nothin’ – Fred Hammond
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Tonight Tonight – Hot Chelle Rae
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Clark, nah, some music if the present’s pretty cool! These are quite alright.
@Michelle
thank you! (I really liked the Fred Hammond and the Halestorm)
hey if you have any thoughts on the ‘List experiment’ from yesterday…I am going to revisit the topic tomorrow. Lizzi has some insights and impressions from the clarklike perspective
Kind of scary how you kind of went all dark and then added Rascal Flatts :)
@Kerri
thank you! I get that a lot, it is not so much a deliberate attempt, but with only 5 slots (6 in this case) and trying to select what I feel is the best of a time frame, it gets a little….jarring at times (a little??! lol)
I really had a problem when I knew that I wanted to include Fred in the mix… talk about something-dissonance! but some very good music (imo)… especially the Rascal Flatts
Okay, my first ever Rascal Flatts and I’m TOTALLY HOOKED! Thank you for this :D
yeah… I really like them, but there is something to the evolution/development to the whole country music genre that makes a lot of music really more accessible (some of the nest ‘near-rock’ music is getting played on the country music radio stations)
OMG I am addicted to Rascal Flats. They play them a lot on our NPR station here. lol
have a great Tuesday!
Ok what’s wrong with me that I’ve never heard most of these? I think the only two that I can say for sure that I know are Gives You Hell and Tonight. I can’t decide whether I like “that bitch can eat her heart out” song (Love Bites) or not. I like the beat but it’s not my favorite – not sure why. Perhaps I need to listen again. I’m kindof digging the Rascal Flatts song although I don’t usually go for the more country-sounding music (although, this decade is one in which I’ve definitely been more open to it than in years past). Awesome list, dude. Ok so I have to ask. Sounds like you and Jen may have gotten drunk in one of the past decades, listening to music together and then you needed whatever was in the nightstand? My oh my. It’s steamy over here!
@Kristi
…this is the magic of fiction, non? far be it from me to spoil the ‘scene’ but you might want to give it another reading…. lol think about who is being referred to and who is not… that’s all I’m gonna say. (damn! when the hell does that deVries “Learn to Write Good” home-course gonna show up?)
I knew it! I knew I’d get drunk and naked again, damnit! I was just hoping it was that skank Jen instead of skanky me. Oh well. Did I have fun?
@Kristi
as the not-old-humans might say, “…well, duh!”
And for the record to any internet pervo freaks, this IS FICTIONAL.
@Kristi
lol
yeah! what she said! (how depressed should I be that I am not overly concerned about anyone misinterpreting anything here, simply because I personally know everyone who reads the blog… yeah, that big a number!)
Well one day when you’re famous for the Doc’s personality theories, there will be kajillions so that’s for them then.
@Kristi
lol… but don’t forget the Wakefield Doctrine semi-long term plan of Self-Development Seminars… we’ll all be spending our time in Holiday Inn ballrooms telling the scottian wives (who drag along their rogerian husbands) and the rogers (who have convinced their clarklike spouses to come along, so ‘they can see what they find interesting’
…I take it this would be an inconvenient time to bring up your wonderings about the possibility of Wakefield Doctrine branded lingerie….?
*wicked giggles*
@Considerer
(let me put my scottian aspect on the line)… au contraire Ms. DownSpring!! this surely would be a great time to survey our Readers… see what would be tasteful in such a cool fashion line lol
After you just….with Kristi….you are BRAZEN!
You dog!
;)
@Considerer
lol… but, but… wait! I explain
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Is “fictional” subjective? O_o
@Jak
dude! reality is subjective
lol!!
man!! listen to the wise old sage fella!
Wow I guess I’m really out of touch (or stuck watching disney pop with the kids). I really enjoyed these, especially the first one.
@Amy
it’s been such an interesting series of ‘hops… I think the focus that Jen and Kristi put on this (by the decade) did something very interesting, not only did it let me focus on a time in my life, there has been a curious …I don’t enhancement, focus or something among the participants really kind of cool (I probably am the only one feeling that, cool nonetheless, ya know?)
If I had favorites (in this list) it would be Halestorm and Fred Hammond (have seen on but not the other live)
OK Tonight Tonight is going to be in my head forever! I love how versatile this post is! I did not expect it AT ALL. Especially because you put that DAMN SONG Nightmare on there again! I had to add it to the playlist super fast so I wouldn’t have to watch it again! Other than that. Perfection, a great mix of all genres, it would have made the perfect mixtape in real life.
@Jen
thank you… this was a challenging one ( I mean Nightmare and ‘That ain’t nothin’ in the same list… I am surely going to burn in hell for that little juxtaposition…lol)
Hey, I said it somewhere already, but you have done an amazing thing with this here bloghop here…and I know I will keep participating, but the decade thing v cool
I was just listening to that Halestorm album on the drive home today and that’s my favorite song off of it. Fantastic choices this week!
@Dream
I get a kick out of watching the drummer channel Keith Moon, especially in this video… I don’t think I have seen any songs that I haven’t liked from Lzzy and Friends
(holy smokes! I had no idea that they were brother and sister… white stripes in reverse! I went to wikipedia to check on the spelling and there it was, huh learn something new everyday)
Dude… Absolute Variety on this List. I got a kick out of it and can I get an Amen??? Ha…
Nice, Slu
@Slu
agree… that Fred, amazing (loved the horn section for that concert, the old r&b moves a lot of fun).
Eclectic, electric! Nice bag o’ music you have here Clark – mind if I dip in for seconds?
@Troy
dude! given the depth of your knowledge/appreciation of genres, sub-genres and genre-ettes of music, total compliment.
Awesome list. Except for I would be lying if I said I listened to the Rascal Flats tune. Because I didn’t. So I don’t know if that one is awesome or not. But I’m not clicking on it and you can’t make me. ;)
@Tracy
but…but you have to!!
(the secret, but hot banjo player is someone semi-famous and really nice person-ette…)
Not too bad of a line up, definitely a spread. I still think I can do without Rascal Flatts :-)
Sounds like the trek through generations was a blast! What happens now that you are back in the present exactly?
Jak at The Cryton Chronicles & Dreams in the Shade of Ink
@Jak
thats up to Jen and Kristi…everyone enjoyed the process (I believe) I surely did
I love the Rascal Flatts ’cause it (this song) is so much the mutation of country into semi-rock (listen to the guitar!) fun stuff/