Music
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Weekend Music [Mac’s much-abused conscience: Yes, Pittsburgh, and what right does someone from Alabama have to snicker at the juxtaposition of Pittsburgh and first-class liturgical music?] [Mac’s excuse-making faculty, not as far as I know specifically identified by theologians: I know, it’s just…you know, the image is all…like, industrial and stuff…] My daughter Clare is…
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Gustave Mahler was born on July 7, 1860. If you don't know his music, you probably should. The 1st and 4th symphonies are good places to start. I'll say a bit more later if I have time, but in the fairly likely case that I don't, this post at Inside Catholic has a lot of…
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Weekend Music I was thinking about this song yesterday and complaining to myself that I couldn’t hear it, because I only have it on LP and I still haven’t replaced the needle that I stupidly broke a couple of months ago. Then I remembered YouTube. I think it’s best heard in the dark or at…
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Weekend Music How many times does it happen that you hear the chorus of a song coming from the radio through someone’s open car window as you’re walking through the parking lot at work, and it haunts you so that you have to find out what it is? Not very often for me. In fact…
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Weekend Music Pure pop candy. Don’t try to pretend you don’t like it. It will probably get stuck in your head if you listen to it more than once, so just accept it. The video is just the lyrics, which aren’t exactly difficult or obscure, so no need to watch.
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Weekend Music From his 3-disk collection of out-takes and other previously uncollected stuff, Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards (this is one of the bawlers): You’ll be lost and never foundYou can never turn around Happily, that’s never true in this life; you can choose to turn around right up until the very last breath, though you…
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Weekend Music I’ve been too busy for some weeks now to post one of these; this one has been on my mental list for a while. My friend Anja pointed me to this song by Pekka Streng, a Finnish musician who died in 1975 at the age of 26. The title is something like “I…
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I hadn’t heard this for years before this week, but I must have listened to it a lot at a more leisurely time in my life, because it was very familiar to me. I was about to say it was like meeting an old friend, but when one meets an old friend after twenty or…
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Women, Music, and Modernity “You’re into girls.” That was the startling but not inaccurate remark my wife made last Saturday when she walked by as I was browsing YouTube for Patty Griffin songs. Since 90% of my music listening is done when I’m alone in my car going to and from work, and she is…
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Yes: The Yes Album Here’s the latest stop on my continuing tour of ‘70s progressive rock. As I’ve mentioned before, I treated this music with disdain when it was current: I thought of it as a place where grooves went to die, an often empty display of technical brilliance by people with much more talent…
Light On Dark Water 