“This song is rubbish”
…was the songwriting advice given by Jordan (aged 7) to Neil Young (aged 62).
I was listening to the new Neil Young album ‘Chrome Dreams II’ whilst Jordan played on the computer – when all of a sudden he piped up ” this song is rubbish, he just keeps saying ‘If heaven had a window where the sun came shinin’ through, like a beautiful bluebird, I’d come flyin’ back to you’ over and over again and that’s all!”.
At this point I tried to explain that maybe this didn’t make the song rubbish, but maybe he just didn’t like the repetition, to be interupted with “I know it’s probably the chorus and that’s why he says it lots, but I think it’s rubbish!”.
So there Neil Young! Consider yourself told! You do not appeal to 7 year olds.
Oh, and watch out anyone who swears in their songs, I’ve already been asked to “put a different song on that doesn’t have swearing in it” today.
Albums Of The Year: 2006
My top 5 albums of 2006 (in no particular order):
Pearl Jam – Pearl Jam
The Killers – Sam’s Town
Wilco – A Ghost Is Born
Neil Young – Living With War
Incubus – Light Grenades
Other albums that came close to the top 5….
Secret Machines – Ten Silver Drops
Head Automatica – Popaganda
The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers
Rocco DeLuca & The Burden – I Trust You To Kill Me
The Zutons – Tired Of Hanging Around
Ben Kweller – Ben Kweller
My top 5 songs/singles of 2006 (in no particular order):
Pearl Jam – World Wide Suicide
The Killers – When You Were Young
The Raconteurs – Steady, As She Goes
The Kooks – Naive (shame about the album!)
Muse – Starlight
Albums I’m looking forward to in 2007…
Chris Cornell (new solo album)
Biffy Clyro
Idlewild
Jimmy Eat World
Josh Doyle?
Foo Fighters
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