Daguerretype GTI
That is a photo of the GTI parked while I squeezed in a couple-mile walk before the day devolved into the random chaos of brief moments of sunshine surrounded and outnumbered by rain, sometimes quite heavy. While killing time until the Red Sox game at 4pm, I caught up on my car-related channels on YouTube. From there I wandered, looking for music to listen to at night to sleep by. I tried white noise and rainfall stuff, but couldn’t adjust to it, so I’ve a playlist of quiet ambient stuff that works.
This led to me finding a segment that I didn’t know existed: “First Reaction to Insert Song” by individual rappers, music teachers, or opera singers. Sometimes there’ll be a couple people doing it together. The first one I listened to was a woman’s reaction to Phil Collins’s “In The Air Tonight.” It was a live version of the song that is 7-1/2 minutes long with that famous drum bit at about 5-1/2 minutes in. She did a little research on the backstory of the song (he was going through a divorce); she would also explain the technical musicy stuff, and seemed to really enjoy what she was listening to. And not gonna lie, she was also attractive to look at.
This led me to her channel, The Charismatic Voice, where I found the one that is the title of this post, “More Than Words” by Extreme. I know this song because I bought their CD just based on hearing this song. I wouldn’t say it was the only song out of the thirteen that is good; there are a couple more worth the listen, but the band really were more hard rock than I liked at that time.