7th
Ben Harper - Burn One Down (iamxl remix)
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I’ll say this right now: when I started this blog, I in no way thought I would ever post any Ben Harper. In fact, quite the opposite.
A friend of mine (Elliott) introduced me to Burn One Down wayyyyyy back when, before I started cutting the chaff of my music collection. And, as a kid in the middle of high school just starting to delve into the lighter regions of rock (I was previously all about punk), I’m not gonna lie: this song definitely helped me in my movement to what I like to pretentiously think of as a superior music taste.
It by no means exemplified it, though. And a year or two later, I saw myself cutting all the Harper from my collection.
And yet, when Dani Deahl posted this remix earlier on her blog, it took me back to that summer ages ago, when acoustic guitar, some hippy-strange lyrics, and maybe some bongos meant greatness. And yet, it’s been updated with this disco beat and more of an African dance-y drumline.
Funny that that’s all my old tastes need to be relevant again.
This song’s definitely gonna burn one down for me this summer. And there’s only a month left.
And now I’m just sitting here as the guitars fade away…
