Three songs that go well together:
“Vienna” by Billy Joel
“Vienna” by Ultravox
“Leipzig” by Thomas Dolby
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Central European melancholy
Posted in Music on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Favorite songs of 2007, #1-25
Posted in Music on December 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To continue listing my favorite songs added to my iTunes in 2007…
25. “Kick Out the Jams” by The MC5
24. “Time and Tide” by Basia
23. “Green Tambourine” by The Lemon Pipers
22. “Draggin’ the Line” by Tommy James
21. “East Bound and Down” by Jerry Reed
20. “Dizzy” by Tommy Roe
19. “1st Things 1st” by Phantom Planet
18. “Condoleezza, Check [...]
Favorite songs of 2007, #26-50
Posted in Music on December 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Because I was on a blogging hiatus a year ago, I never posted my year-end favorite songs from 2007 (these are songs that I added to iTunes in 2007, most of which were not actually released that year). Here are #50 through #26:
50. “The Vex” by Black Tie Dynasty
49. “Forecast Fascist Future” by Of Montreal
48. [...]
Favorite songs of 2008
Posted in Music on December 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
These are my 25 favorite songs that I added to my iTunes collection in 2008 (almost all of the songs were released before 2008), limited to one song per artist:
25. “Angela” by Bob James
24. “Gold Dust” by The Hochimen
23. “They Can’t Take That Away from Me” by Sarah Vaughan
22. “Ace in the Hole” by [...]
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Posted in Humor, Music on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Cute.
And funny.
The Barber of Seville
Posted in Music on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My knowledge of classical music is slight, but I will still venture the opinion that whatever you would call the effect Rossini creates at the end of the overture of The Barber of Seville, no one could surpass his version of that effect. It is at the same time both worthy of awe and a [...]
Shazam!
Posted in Apple, Music on December 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
An iPhone ad touts an app called “Shazam” that allows the iPhone to identify a song that is playing loud enough for the iPhone to detect.
Does it work?
Yes it does, and I now have a copy of “Silly Boy” by The Blue Van.
My new favorite Christmas carol
Posted in Music on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Christmas carol from Stephen Colbert and Elvis Costello that sounds…exactly the way you would expect a Christmas carol from Stephen Colbert and Elvis Costello to sound.
“Moonlight in Vermont”
Posted in Music on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been listening to a lot of ’50s recordings of standards lately, and I enjoy listening to how various vocalists handle these lines from “Moonlight in Vermont”:
People who meet in this romantic setting
Are so hypnotized by the lovely
Evening summer breeze
The phrasing is awkward, which I think is exactly why the lines can be so touching [...]
At Waterloo / Ol’ Blue Eyes did surrender…
Posted in Music on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
February 17, 1955. Frank Sinatra is in one of his final recording sessions for a new album, a concept album. An album for the weary, the sad, the broken. “In the Wee Small Hours”, he was going to call it. In the last two days, he had cut eight songs that would end up on [...]
Norman Whitfield, 1940-2008
Posted in Music, Obituaries on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Norman Whitfield, the leading songwriter and producer of Motown’s psychedelic years, died Tuesday of complications from diabetes.
He was the producer for The Temptations from 1966 to 1973. “Ball of Confusion”? That was his. “I Wish It Would Rain”? Him, too. “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg”? “Papa Was a Rolling Stone”? Do you need to ask [...]
Ain’t got the Mojo
Posted in Music on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I love Mojo magazine, but I do not subscribe to it and I never read it.
Why?
Because I lack the time to listen to the music I already know to buy. Why pay $150/year to be frustrated?
Chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Posted in Music, Video on September 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Temptations work out on “I Can’t Get Next to You”.
This one also impresses.
Recent iTunes purchases
Posted in Music on September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“All Alone” by Julie London
“Brimful of Asha” by Cornershop
“You, Me and the Bourgeoisie” by The Submarines
“Dry the Rain” by The Beta Band
“Hi Hi Hi” by Paul McCartney & Wings
Jerry Reed, 1937-2008
Posted in Music, Obituaries, Video on September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jerry Reed, best known for his role as Snowman in “Smokey and the Bandit,” died yesterday.
“Smokey and the Bandit” is a great and timeless comedy. It’s still hilarious after 30 years, in large part because of Reed’s good ol’ boy character.
The theme song from that movie, Reed’s “East Bound and Down”, is available on iTunes, [...]
