The Music Court

Tomorrow the New York Jets will be in San Diego, not for a team golfing trip, but for playoff football against the 13-3 San Diego Chargers (who have won 11 straight games). I don’t exactly know how they got this far, but the perseverance by my lowly football team has proven that they are certainly on the right track and, for this season, they have as good of a chance as anybody to make the Superbowl and I am PSYCHED! The Jets are hot and playing with house money which makes them a true force to be reckoned with. So, from The Music Court a hearty J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS and what is better than a song set in New York City in the mid 1950’s to help you celebrate.

So I’m sitting down at my desk doing some work on some policies, and I was trying to think of something else to do. What do you do when there is nothing else to do? Yes, you go on youtube. Check out this video. It features Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton, who will be touring together soon. Imagine the possibilities.

You can now follow the Music Court on twitter (despite the consternation of my fellow writers). http://twitter.com/musiccourt Hope to see you on there and I promise I will still never use the word tweet or tweeting (Now poo-tee-weet is another story)

The Jets lost. Another season with an optimistic start has pretty much gone down the perennial tubes likes many seasons before.I’d like to say that this is a fluke but lacking late-season performances have plagued this franchise for so many lost years and I do not even know the half of it. While I stare in the face of another long winter waiting time until the optimism of spring brings back Spring Training and baseball, I certainly need a bit of a pick-me up to get me smiling again. Yes, I understand that me being down because of a sports team is incredibly superficial and rather dumb but, even in my knowledge that sports are simply a form of entertainment and the world is always experiencing crisis beyond the meaningless stranglehold of sports, I cannot shake the inevitable feeling of annoyance that my wonderful Jets and Mets always seem to bring me. So, let us turn to music and I will reveal to you all my perfect pick-me up song.

I could not resist

“Beautiful World” by Colin Hay (who was the lead vocalist of Men at Work in the 80’s) appeared on Company of Strangers, Hay’s 7th solo album which was released in 2002. The song’s lyrics are just uplifting and truthful. In perhaps one of my favorite verses in any song, Hay sings:

“And still this emptiness persists
Perhaps this is as good as it gets
When you’ve given up the drink and those nasty cigarettes
Now I leave the party early at least with no regrets
I watch the sun as it comes up I watch it as it sets
Yeah this is as good as it gets.”

In it, I just feel like he sums it up quite pleasantly and ingrained in this lyric and song is a message of accepted optimism. Perhaps, no matter what, this is as good as it gets. Do not have any regrets and live life with a smile. Accept the bad and try to make it good. My, my, my it’s a beautiful world (Just look at it that way).

Check out the song and don’t worry, be happy (Bobby McFerrin ain’t bad either):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS8g6UuPCnQ&feature=PlayList&p=A6F88D16B0CC2DEA&index=0&playnext=1

If I ever become a roadie for Adams I will be going on the PBA tour. That makes me laugh!

        A holiday gift from the good folks at Sarathan records. Enjoy this free, legal, EP of 3 great Peter Bradley Adams songs. I reviewed his music a little while ago and you can read it over at this link: https://musiccourt.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/the-bands-at-bauska-castle-peter-bradley-adams/

    Adams’ style of folk/rock is beautiful and this free EP is most definitely a treat. Download the three songs at this link: http://www.peterbradleyadams.com/free/ep/   Enjoy!