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In the beginning there were gig reviews - from the (mosh) pit - but as time went on I expanded into other things.
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Music and entertainment reviews. Separate from my main blog at http://atwas.net
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"pop"/"mainstream" music is all the same?
This is actually really going to be about awesome comedy rock band Axis of Awesome (one to watch, imo) but first, a quick (closely related) tangent: Rob Paravonian's Pachelbel Rant
And now more recently, Axis of Awesome (Jordan Raskopoulos, Benny Davis and Lee Naimo) has come up with their 4 Chord Song:
I'm in no way any kind of expert on music theory so won't comment on the technical aspects here but more on the overall performance, which both acts have delivered brilliantly. I really like what these two acts have done, and the resulting medleys. Obviously both sketches are based on a similar idea and indeed, both routines do feature several songs in common:
- U2 - With Or Without You
- The Beatles - Let it Be
- Bob Marley - No Woman No Cry
- Natalie Imbruglia - Torn
RobP deserves the credit for being the first, to my knowledge, to make use of the idea in this way but let me know of anything else similar I've missed via comments because they probably exist!
However, Axis of Awesome has surpassed RobP, perhaps simply because as a trio interacting with each other they've been able to achieve more than Rob was able to achieve alone- that, and the fact that theirs is longer and incorporates so many more songs which increases the "I-know-that-one!" factor.
I'm mostly disappointed that I've never had the chance to see either of these shows, in particular Axis of Awesome because while they've both been in the country before, Axis of Awesome were here as recently as November - if only I'd heard of them before then!
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