Mayan Medley!
I’m going to schedule this for after the end of the world. If you’re reading it, something went wrong.
music
Jimi
Oh, so… Jimi. Context first. I inherited a good chunk of my music taste from my parents and my elder sister, and from a friend of the family named Doug Wedge. Mom listened to The Beatles and The Rolling Stones… Continue Reading
Again?
Jaybird mentioned the “that song” phenomenon recently. He was talking about a very particular “that song”. Now, I don’t listen to pop radio the way I used to, so I wasn’t sure which “that song” he was talking about, but… Continue Reading
Perfection!
Jaybird gave me the idea for this post, yesterday. (Edit from Jaybird: I’ve modified the post time for this in order to make it Monday’s Essay because it’s *JUST* *THAT* *GOOD*. So this isn’t referring to “yesterday” yesterday.) Lots of… Continue Reading
Wednesday!
While scrounging for songs that have as many descendants as “S/He Called Me Baby“, I keep stumbling across songs that have many, many covers but it seems that each of the covers is covering the original rather than covering covers… Continue Reading
Wednesday!
The Crash Test Dummies ought to be remembered for more than just that danged “Mmm mmm mmm mmm” song. The album Give Yourself a Hand was excellent and Songs of the Unforgiven was downright amazing… but everybody only remembers Mmm… Continue Reading
Wednesday!
So… what are you listening to? Here’s a song that is vaguely related to the book (it’s good, by the way).
Wednesday!
Was going to call this one “Glossolalia!” but, yeah, It’s Wednesday. Like everybody else on the planet, I bought Blue Bell Knoll off of the strength of the song Carolyn’s Fingers (I don’t know why I bothered linking it as I’m… Continue Reading
Wednesday!
In the comments to last Wednesday’s post, RTod mentioned Leonard Cohen’s song Hallelujah as another song that has a double boatload of folks covering it… but, he pointed out, they pretty much all sound the same. I agree with him. My… Continue Reading
Wednesday!
(I admit. I almost called this essay “Darwin!” and then I remembered that, no, it’s Wednesday.) I love remix culture, sometimes. The idea of taking a long-finished, long-forgotten piece of art and tweaking it, bending it, folding it, and spindling… Continue Reading