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  • What is Your Favorite Song by LaMonte

    by LaMonte on August 9th, 2009

    It was 5:00am in the morning and my eyes could barely focus on the screen. I had just finished feeding my 10 month old daughter, Tyne, and laid her back down to sleep. But, I decided to break my routine and not go back to bed. I instead, decided to work on a few things while I had some quite time - other than the sporadic flow of cars zooming bye. Before I get in my zone, I must hit up my music library. So, at random, I selected an album. As luck would have it, I selected my favorite band, Radiohead. I feel in love with this group with the release of their album, OK Computer, which I believe is one of the best albums of ALL time.

    My media player kicks in and blasting in my ear is 15 Step, from their latest album release, In Rainbows. I immediately start to sing, unknowingly, too loud. My wife comes down stairs to see what’s going on. She begins to laugh. It must have been my outfit – a green one piece pajama outfit – and the off key pitch in my voice as I attempt to sound like Thom York. As if that were even a possibility, but I try nevertheless. Kuri reminds me to lower my voice so I don’t wake the baby. Good call on her part. I wasn’t aware of how loud I was due to the headphones. We’ve all been there before, belting out tunes, oblivious of our surroundings and volume of singing.

    She returns to bed and I continue to sing along with every song, in a much softer voice. I’m in a zone now baby, as Weird Fishes gets my head to bouncing as if I were in a bumpy car ride. I zoom through my action items list, loving the moment I am in.

    Back to the purpose of this blog entry; the team and I are suppose to journal our favorite current song. Well, I don’t have a favorite current song, but I do have a favorite current band, Radiohead. They are simply amazing and with every album release, they seem to blow me totally away.

    I have a question(s) for all of you who are reading this blog: What is your favorite Radiohead song? Where were you when you first heard it and why is that particular song your favorite? If you are not a fan of Radiohead, I strongly recommend you hop on the bandwagon. All pun intended. Should you know of someone who is a fan, please send them this blog entry, as I’d love to hear what they think.

    Rock On…

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      • Behind the Scenes

        by Jennifer on May 16th, 2009

        Take a peek at the making of our new company… stay tuned for more video blogs as we move forward with our social media site, “Curtain Call”…


        Behind the Scenes EagleEar Entertainment

        from Eagle Ear Entertainment on Vimeo .



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      • What's Your Favorite Song by Jennifer

        by Jennifer on January 15th, 2009

        It is impossible pick one song that is meaningful to me. So I won’t! Through the course of my life there have been so many songs both poetic and just plain fun that have made an impact on me. Don’t you agree that certain songs take you back to moments in time that were significant and sweet—or perhaps painful and strained? I am going to focus on the high points today.

        My earliest musical moment I can remember came with the purchase of our family “singing machine”—the first Karaoke machine invented I assure you. In fact, I have that machine in my attic to this day that plays 8 tracks tapes signifying the influence that little sound maker played in my life. Stephanie and I would sing on opposite ends of a single jump-rope wailing complicated tunes from Barbara Streisand (Duet with Neil Daimond, You Don’t Bring Me Flowers, Memory from Cats, and The Way We Were). While I don’t sit in my car these days blurting these tunes out…they shaped me and remind me of my younger days of musically connecting with my sister!

        During my 4th grade year at Bright Elementary (brightschool.com), I debuted as the starring role in the Chattanooga Little Theater’s play, Annie. The song, Tomorrow, will be forever etched in my soul to remind me that when hard times comes, there is hope in each God given day.

        I think back to my days of 8th grade at Baylor High School (baylorschool.org) during our crazy co-ed dances where I found so much joy twirling in the dark, strobe lights of our gym to The Bangles song Walk Like an Egyptian. Every time I hear that song I am freed by the reflection of the innocence of my youth. In my later years, I think on the song from one of my favorite movies Pretty In Pink, If You Leave, by OMD. I call those my technotronic days. Please forgive me.

        College years included a love for songs by Depeche Mode (Personal Jesus and People are People) The Cure and a longing to be musically cool and “in the know” by my peers.

        Of course the last decade of my life is really summed up as a musical smorgasbord. If you saw my IPod you would think I was totally schizophrenic, but I like it that way. I am most intrigued by artists who are selling lots of product, and I am trying to identify why the industry thinks they are endearing. For instance, what up with all this “throw back” music (with the likes of Duffy and Amy Whinehouse)? Is it really that good musically or just fulfilling a niche that hasn’t been occupied in a while? What artists do you listen to and are they selling? Why or Why not?

         



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