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FULL-OBAMA TEMPO COMPARISON – "A CHRISTMAS SONG" – Dave Matthews with his band and with Tim – Merry Christmas from the Meanspeed Music Company!

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As the group over at Wikipedia is always telling me: “[We] know more about everything than you do.” And, well, I guess they know more about the public record of how the recording of “A Christmas Song” by Dave Matthews came to be popular enough that: above you will see a meanspeed speed graph of two live versions of this song. I classify this slow speed as “surreal.” In meanspeed music theory, everything 54 beats per minute and below is surreal. As in: dreamy, awesome, a time-out-of-mind experience. Below is Wiki’s take on how this song came to be. Thank you people at Wiki. Ian Schneider 1 November 2006 NY, NY

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Remember Two Things
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Remember Two Things
Remember Two Things cover
Live album by Dave Matthews Band
Released 1993
Recorded Trax, Charlottesville, Virginia; Flood Zone, Richmond, Virginia; The Muse, Nantucket, Massachusetts; Flat Five Studios, Salem, Virginia
Genre Rock
Length 55:12
Label Bama Rags Records
Producer(s) John Alagia
Professional reviews

* All Music Guide 3 out of 5 stars link

Dave Matthews Band chronology
Remember Two Things
(1993) Recently
(1994)

Remember Two Things is an album by the Dave Matthews Band, released independently in 1993. It was reissued by RCA on June 24, 1997. The album is known on the Internet by the acronym R2T. The album cover art is an autostereogram which, when focused on correctly, shows a person’s hand giving the peace sign.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by David J. Matthews except where noted.

1. “Ants Marching” – 6:08
2. “Tripping Billies” – 4:49
3. “Recently” – 8:41
4. “Satellite” – 5:01
5. “One Sweet World” – 5:18
6. “The Song That Jane Likes” (Matthews, Mark Roebuck) – 3:33
7. “Minarets” – 4:22
8. “Seek Up” – 7:20
9. “I’ll Back You Up” – 4:26
10. “Christmas Song” – 5:34

Following “Christmas Song” on track 10 is an outro to “Seek Up” followed by the ambient sounds of a thunderstorm and crickets.

Song Notes

“I’ll Back You Up” is the first song Dave Matthews ever completed.

Jane is Dave Matthews‘ little sister, and “The Song That Jane Likes” is thus named after her.

The first six songs are full-band live recordings. “Minarets” and “Seek Up” are full-band studio recordings and “I’ll Back You Up” and “Christmas Song” are Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds live recordings.

Personnel

The Dave Matthews Band

* David Matthews – guitar, vocals
* Carter Beauford – percussion, vocals
* Stefan Lessard – bass
* Leroi Moore – woodwinds, vocals
* Boyd Tinsley – violin, vocals

Additional musicians

* Greg Howard – Chapman Stick, synthesizer and percussion samples on “Minarets”
* Tim Reynolds – guitars on “Minarets”, “Seek Up”, “I’ll Back You Up”, and “Christmas Song”

/Ian Andrew Schneider/
Meanspeed® Music Company

Deterministic Speed of Haunted Suicidal Ideations – Did you let this tempo control you, or did you control this tempo? Sharon Case and 117 2/5 BPM

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I’m not going to show off my cut & paste ability. Trust me on this: as many 100s, which seems as thousands of times I have heard during this NFL season “the team must control the tempo of the game,” the only analyst that actually tried to define what same meant was Sterling Sharpe of the NFL channel. He called “controlling the tempo” as ‘Being in synch with your teammates.’

I am saying that I am an NFL addict, but I do not listen to every game, therefore I am sure more have tried to do it – the best out there, that of a Dan Dierdorf, a Phil Simms, Bria n Billick, Brian Baldinger all have taken shots at what controlling the tempo of the game actually means. Anyone out there may feel free to email me at the address listed in my profile, meanspeed@gmail.com, with other examples you may have heard.

Today I walked through the rain to my law office. Everyone was talking about either being unemployed, how to avoid getting fired and how to interview for a job for which you have no background either in the abstract (school) or real (the Federal Withholding tax for the Impoverished, the most shameful tax in the history of the country). Mass confusion. The song that came to mind and that which I spent some time on last night, feeling this panic of a city coming on: Smells Like Teen Spirit by Kurt Cobain and handed to his band Nirvana.

One could easily ask: why isn’t Kurt Tangled Up In Blue? Why? The lyrics, should you visit one of the millions of lyrics site, are actually happier in the song at the speed of panic and foreboding, 117 2/5 beats per minute, according to the meanspeed music conjecture. If you look at the lists on the above screen, you will find that the chance of a song at 117 2/5 bpm being haunted are high: Every Breath You Take, Billie Jean, Land Of Confusion – once you *feel* it you may use it to control your tempo. You may use your knowledge of what happens at that speed to *not* let the tempo control *you.* For example, if you are the kicker for the New York Jets, and before a kick, Buffalo calls a a cheap ‘ice you, little boy’ Time Out, and the crowd is blasted with this song: FEAR NOT. It’s only an attempt to control the tempo, literally and figuratively, using the crowd.

Meanspeed-Carlton Summary
song title=SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT
performer=Nivana
mean speed/median velocity/average standard tempo=117 2/5 beats per minute
emotional concept as predicted by the meanspeed music conjecture=foreboding
emotional concept as actually heard=suicidally haunted

/Ian Andrew Schneider/
December 11, 2008