Music
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Weekend Music I usually do this post on Friday evening, but my attention was occupied by a problem I was having at work until pretty late, and I completely forgot about it until just now when I read this post at All Manner of Thing. So I'll suggest you go over there and have a listen: it's…
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Weekend Music A few days ago I wanted to hear something different on my way to work, so I picked up a CD more or less at random from a group that I was using several years ago, before I got an external hard drive, to back up my mp3 files. Each CD contains a…
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Weekend Music Dylan has a new album, Tempest, coming out in a week or so, and this video for one of the songs was released a few days ago. I really hadn't planned on buying the album, but I like this song. Be warned that the video takes a rather violent turn somewhere past the…
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Q: What vice-president of the United States wrote the melody of a song that you probably know, and really should like if you do know it? A: [Click here.] And click here to hear the song.
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Weekend Music I've heard Dar Williams's name here and there, but don't know much about her. This song was a free download at eMusic sometime in the past few months. At one time I had many, many of these that I'd never really listened to, because I always downloaded them without listening to the samples…
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Weekend Music I probably should have waited for the weekend to write the Krautrock post. So here’s a sort of footnote to it, a Krautrock Klassik. This tune is often compared to Kraftwerk’s “Autobahn,” and one can see why, though in my opinion not as good. I reviewed the album on which it appears back…
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I sort of want to post something serious, but I had a bad day at work, and the serious stuff going on here in the U.S., mainly the presidential campaign, is profoundly disheartening. It's not just the campaign itself, but the people baying from the sidelines. So I'd rather think about something else. It's a…
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Weekend Music A couple of Saturday nights ago my wife and I watched a movie–actually we watch a movie almost every Saturday night–and after it was over I switched to Turner Classic Movies, which is a sort of idle habit of mine. There was a 1940 musical called Too Many Girls playing. It featured Lucille Ball,…
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Which countries lead the world in heavy metal bands per capita? Not surprisingly–well, not surprising if you know anything about metal–the Nordic countries lead the way, with Finland way out in front at 54.3 metal bands per 100,000 people, Sweden next at 37.3. I was just a bit surprised by the details. I would have…
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Weekend Music Released in late 1955, on the charts in 1956. I remember this quite distinctly, but I was only seven years old in early 1956, and I think my memory is from when I was older, maybe twelve or thirteen. That puzzled me until I remembered that on the radio–which was the only way…
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