FIND SOME SICK MUSIC

RAM 1971

Hey ya'll my names Bri and in the midst of this literal pandemic and everyone being stuck at home (for the better by the way, wash your hands and stay at home), I thought to myself currently now at 1:05 in the morning, why not spend some of this time expanding our love for music and discovering more. You all know how good it feels to have the aux and play a song no one else has heard and they love it, or just the feeling of being alone with your music and generally enjoying the feeling it brings you. In a time like this, finding things that bring you joy and fill you with happiness is eccessial, so when you find it, cling to it and run with it. For me, this is music, over these past weeks I've been really diving into different albums and music, and want to learn more on the history and stories of these artists and want to provide some type of crash course on the topics, and of course find out, is 'the album good?" Not that I'm saying my taste in music has any validation to being good in anyone's eyes, but this will be a learning experience for all and personally I think my suggestions are tasteful enough, but I love what others have to say as well.

1-10 scale: 1 being dont waste your time, to 10 being you need to listen and add to all playlist available right now.

* Means I liked the song enough to add it to one of my million playlists.

******RAM*******

To start it off, the first album I actually dove into this week was "Ram" by Paul and Lina McCartney, 1971. And is arguably one of his best albums to date, and just overall this is a good ass album. The range in this album for the time it was made I think it really rad, with soft rock feels, blues tunes, hawaiann vibes, chill folk sounds, and of course rock, this albums hits a ton of different notes. Although this would be considered in the rock genre, so if it isn't really your thing, I still suggest just giving it a listen and maybe expanding your horizons and it really is a great album. Personally I love 'old'  music simply for how timeless it is, and it's hard to find current artists really doing it how they did back then, I'm not saying there aren't any, but if you see one please point me in that direction, cause I can only name a few. When RAM was released in the early 70s there was obviously that looming idealism hanging over Paul's head, due to the sky high expectations from releasing a solo album after the Beatles (this was his second solo album released after the Beatles spilt about one year prior). This was one of his first album without all the influencing from prior band mates (cough, cough John) basically this album is a messy divorce album, metaphorically from the Beatles and especially from his old writing partner John Lennon.The title of the album "RAM", which is the animal that was chosen to metaphorically represent Paul ramming against things that made him depressed during the breakup of the beatles. Another interesting thing is that, this is Paul AND Linda McCartney's album. She was a photographer, animal rights activist, a musician, and Paul's first wife. So lets dive in shall we...

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    Track 1 "Too Many People" 7.5/10 *

If you are thinking, rock as in heavy metal this is not it. This has a very groovy vibe, it has me going with a nice head bob. Turns out this song was suspected to be a tad but of a attack on John Lennon, and actually years later in 1984 in playboy, Paul did say it was a hit at John and Yoko (John Lennon's 2nd, and last wife) saying that "(John) he'd been doing a lot of preaching and it got up my nose a little bit", meaning that he felt they were telling everyone what to do, and he felt that they didn't need to be told. This was towards the end of the Beatles and he mentioned that it wasn't till towards the end that he felt they were being bossy, cause before they all had freedom within the band.  Which of course leads to the line in the song 'too many people preaching practices' because John and Yoko wouldn't mind their own..

Overall thoughts

So there's just a little somethin somethin on this song, overall I think it's pretty layback softrock, and I do suggest you give it a listen, the courus does have a good ring and gets stuck in my head, also some good riffs throughout. I think it would be a good song to just have playing in a chill situation, but who knows it could be the best song in the world to you, and overall it's actually really good song to listen too on a day to day bases, and is one of my favorite songs from the album. Go listen to it....