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Category Archives: Music
Mr Bad Example
Isn’t there an energy crisis or something that we all have to worry about? Guess, we can just call him “Mr Bad Example,” and be done with it. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/us/politics/29whitehouse.html?_r=2&ref=politics?xid=rss-page The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, energy, Environment, Keith's Page, Music
Tagged energy crisis, Mr Bad Example, Obama, Warren Zevon
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Misfits Halloween Consumerism
I was in the supermarket earlier tonight buying candy and they had a rack of Halloween themed t-shirts. I didn’t notice it at first, but the slogan on each shirt was an old Misfits song. “Ghoul’s Night Out”, “Astro Zombies”, … Continue reading
Warehouse
I’ve mentioned before that I lived (in the fullest sense of the word) in Charlottesville, VA for many years in the 90′s. During that time I got to know a great many talented musicians including Dave Matthews. We weren’t buddies … Continue reading
Posted in MichaelW's Page, Music
Tagged Charlottesville, Dave Matthews, LeRoi Moore, Music, Virginia
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All Tomorrows Parties
A treat for Velvet Underground fans, Bud Benderbe reinterprets the seminal alternative band: More over at Airforce Amazon.
Surreal Video of the Day
Feist, the glorious female vocalist from Broken Social Scene who went solo and got her song in an iPod commercial, recently made an appearance on Sesame Street: I don’t know if it’s creepy or not, but it is most definitely … Continue reading
Did We Ever Escape the Nineties?
Yo Yo, a flash in the pan empowered-but-sexless female rapper (try selling that today), got her big break by teaming up with Ice Cube on her 1991 debut Make Way for the Motherlode. Why, here she is, being so early-90′s … Continue reading
Ellas Otha Bates, R.I.P.
Rock & Roll lost one of it’s brightest and most penetrating stars yesterday, even if one of the least well known. The founder of the jungle beat heard in too many songs to count over the last 50 years succumbed … Continue reading
Posted in History, MichaelW's Page, Music
Tagged Bo Diddley, death, Ellas Otha Bates, guitar, Music, pioneer, rock & roll
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Synergy at ASHC
This post + this post = This.
Posted in Art, Chris' Page, Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Humor, Music
Tagged Obama, zz top
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Cheap Sunglasses: ZZ Top and the Price of Fame
Previously posted on last.fm, now with political addendum at the end. The concept of the price of fame is usually applied in the sense of the personal cost to the famous, from the relatively mild annoyance of not being able … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Music, Robby's Page
Tagged Bush, Music, velvet underground, zz top
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Pressing the Flesh
Robby and I got back to our roots a few weeks ago, garage band roots that is. We went to see the Fleshtones. Robby shared his thoughts over at Last Fm. I figure they belong here as well. First, my … Continue reading
Beware the Believers
Heh, a response to Richard Dawkins and the unbelievers amongst us. Right or wrong, arrogant condescension does not go unpunished. Hat tip: D.A. Ridgely
Posted in Humor, Lance's Page, Music, Religion and theology
Tagged Christopher Hitchens, creationism, Daniel Dennett, Eugenie Scott, evolution, Humor, PZ Myers, rap, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, science music
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Yuri’s Night
A worldwide celebration is happening tonight. Yuri’s Night! The local arts organization I am a member of, Art Mob, is supporting our local version. Unfortunately Art Mob’s sight is having trouble, but the temporary site can be found here. I … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Baton Rouge, Culture, Lance's Page, Music, Photography, Technology
Tagged art, Art Mob, Stooges, Yuri's Night
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American Idol Inspired-UPDATE
I actually enjoyed American Idol tonight, in past years I couldn’t say that (though Carrie Underwood was hot.) One of them performed this song, and did a pretty good job. No graphics, but the best sound quality of the video’s … Continue reading
Posted in Lance's Page, Music
Tagged American Idol, Carpenters, Music, Papa Was A Rolling Stone, Sonic Youth, Temptations
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Imagine
Two things you probably don’t know about me and one you probably do: (1) I’m a pretty decent musician and singer. (2) I love American Idol. (3) I hate John Lennon’s “Imagine” because of the message, even though I’ve always … Continue reading
Posted in MichaelW's Page, Music
Tagged American Idol, David Archuleta, Imagine, John Lennon, Music, original arrangement
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Historical Revisionism
Did you ever wonder what it would be like if The Beatles had written Stairway to Heaven instead of Led Zeppelin? Yeah, me neither. But the Australian tribute band, the Beatnix, give us some insight anyway [via: Marginal Revolution, and … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, MichaelW's Page, Music
Tagged Led Zeppelin, Stairway to Heaven, The Beatles, The Beatnix
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Whaaa? When did this happen?
Last week? …but I can no longer stand idly by and watch the media and independent voters continue to throw themselves at the feet of John McCain. Because I’m trying to remember anyone swooning over McCain and I’m not having … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Humor, Music, Uncategorized
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Lance and the R.E.M. Tickets
Love letter, 1982-1985. In between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, a section of I-10 stretches out as a low, dead straight bridge across 25 miles of swamp. This is the story of how I came to be hauling ass across … Continue reading
REM’s New Single
Can be found here. For those who missed the tale of REM, Robby and I, I am promoting it to the front page. Hat tip: Instapundit
Posted in Culture, Lance's Page, Music
Tagged accelerate, Music, R.E.M., supernatural, superserious
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If The Beatles Had Been Irish
My first thought was something along the lines of that soliloquy from The Commitments where Jimmy Rabbitte encourages his erstwhile band to internalize the thought “I’m black, and I’m proud.” Do you not get it, lads? The Irish are the … Continue reading
Tired of the Primaries Yet??
This BLAST from the PAST comes to you from the glam pop rock band SWEET! Dude… Sweet…
Sarkozy’s New Wife
Carla Bruni. Quelqu’un m’a dit [youtube fMUedRUJ_HA] Ten things to know about Sarkozy’s bride: 5. Criticise her intellect at your peril: her last album, released in 2007, was based on poems by W.B. Yeats, Emily Dickinson and Dorothy Parker. She … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lance's Page, Music
Tagged Carla Bruni, France, Nicolas Sarkozy, Quelqu’un m’a dit
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Ain’t No Sunshine
And now for an unscheduled musical interlude: Bill Withers wrote and recorded that song while he had a job installing toilet seats on 747′s. Apparently, he had intended to write more lyrics to replace the 26 consecutive “I know’s” but … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, MichaelW's Page, Music
Tagged 1972, Ain't No Sunshine, BBC, Bill Withers
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Unfortunate cultural dominance
[youtube zYwlRH7R6DE&feature] 18 years ago when I was in the Philippines a somewhat similar song was popular. The song advised, “Not all the World is America.” Well, I figured then that the point made was a good one. It’s a … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Foreign affairs, Music
Tagged , America, Culture, foreign relations, Music, Rammstein
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Walking Spanish
[audio:Walking_Spanish.mp3] To love a song, it’s not important that you understand the words. And I say that as a onetime lyricist and singer. As one of my guitarists often reminded me, “the words don’t matter.” Well, yeah they do, but … Continue reading
Posted in Great Lyrics Series, Music, Robby's Page
Tagged death songs, Music, Tom Waits, Walking Spanish
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So happy that I’m blue …
I’m probably the last one to see this, but this song/commercial is really well done. I especially like the homage to the Beatles. And I think this comment sums it all up: why cant real apples sing like that?!?!?!?!?!, Heh. … Continue reading
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Pot Meet Kettle…
This is highly amusing… http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=paLydon_Thurs_14_Lydon_carcass&show_article=1 Punk legend John Lydon has lashed out at Sting – calling The Police frontman a “soggy old dead carcass”. The Sex Pistol, also known as Johnny Rotten, poured scorn on the Eighties band’s recent comeback. … Continue reading
Posted in Keith's Page, Music
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Is It Plagiarism?
Lance was teasing me for not posting this here. I may be mistaken, but my review of Laurence Jarvik’s article on NGOs in Central Asia, which I had posted at The Registan, is re-posted without attribution on the subscription section … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Music, Technology
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Prodigies
Einstein may have had an inauspicious start as prodigies go, but this four year old has gotten a bit of notice. [youtube fE_PFpWPQ5Y nolink] [tags] drummer, drums, prodigy [/tags]
Posted in Lance's Page, Music
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Listening Notes: A Project for Punkologists
I am loving my new discovery Jason Forrest (his myspace here and his main site here[some pages NSFW]). Well, I didn’t really discover him. I mean, other people were already there, and since I do not have a technological advantage … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Robby's Page
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How to Piss Off a Hippie
People who love music sometimes identify a little too closely with the musicians/songs they love, to the point that any criticism of those musicians/songs becomes, in the music lover’s mind, a personal attack. That’s true even if the music lover … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Humor, Music, Robby's Page
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Great Lyrics Series: Sunday Morning Coming Down-Updated with audio and Video
(Lance’s listening notes: I just spent the evening with my wife and a friend at a little bar, in a very little town, Fordoche Louisiana, called the Red Monkey. I loaded up the Juke box with what interested me (no … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Great Lyrics Series, Music, Robby's Page
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Listening Notes: Comfortably Numb
Note: Google, and thus YouTube, is down. So the video is unavailable at the moment. Please check back later. The entire online world seems to be suffering from rolling outages right now. I don’t know why. *********************************************************************** I love good … Continue reading
Posted in Lance's Page, Music, Robby's Page, Uncategorized
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Dollar Bill And the CBC (Updated)
In the months leading up the 2006 mid-term elections, Republicans were repeatedly hammered by ethics scandals, so much so that the Democrats promised that, if elected, they would be the corruption-free party. As you may recall, the Democrats had a … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Media, MichaelW's Page, Music
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Listening Notes: Golden Years
How deeply, unfathomably weird the 70s were. Roughly contemporaneously at mid-decade, top 40 radio hitspace included an existential dirge, a sea chantey, a heavy metal love song about death, and a chorusless rock opera. I’m not even mentioning any novelty … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Lance's Page, Music, Robby's Page, Uncategorized
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The Greatest Unknown Guitarist
First off, Happy New Year to everyone. I hope that all your dreams and visions come to some fruition this year, as they seem to have already for some ;^) Secondly, in order to give your new year a good … Continue reading
Posted in MichaelW's Page, Music
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Listening Notes: Capital Keeps Raining On My Head
Yields are low throughout the world, and despite the rising equity markets low yields on equities mean low long run returns on them as well as bonds. So we may actually be facing an end to the decade characterized by … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Humor, Investing, Lance's Page, Music
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Listening Notes: Walk on Gilded Splinters
Dr. John’s “Walk on Gilded Splinters” has been covered by a slew of artists from Humble Pie to Paul Weller, but the Dirty Dozen Brass Band’s version is the spiciest. The tight horn arrangement, underpinned by a rumbling tuba, is … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Lance's Page, Music, Robby's Page
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Listening Notes: The Replacements and MTV
My relationship with the Replacements is inextricably tied to a bar, The Bayou. A magnificent, loud, smoke filled bar packed with regular patrons from all walks of life. Old men, aging hippies, bikers, college students, punk rockers, everybody under the … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Lance's Page, Music, Uncategorized
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Blues Power
If you’re in the mood for a little Chicago and Delta blues done the way it was meant to be done, head on over to Random Acts of Insensitivity where Blewsdog has conjured up an impressive array of clips featuring … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, MichaelW's Page, Music
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Send Music To Our Troops
If you are in the giving mood this holiday season (and why wouldn’t you be?), then why not send our troops some free music: Music for Troopsâ„¢ Inc. is a nonprofit, charitable organization founded by performer / songwriter, Cat Hughes. … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, MichaelW's Page, Music, Uncategorized
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Founder of Atlantic Records Dies
One of the greatest pioneers in music has died: Ahmet Ertegun, who helped define American music as the founder of Atlantic Records, a label that popularized the gritty R&B of Ray Charles, the classic soul of Aretha Franklin and the … Continue reading
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Listening Notes: Black Foliage
Black Foliage, by Olivia Tremor Control, is Sergeant Pepper’s as a cheap but astonishingly well-crafted home recording, proving the concept that such multilayered sonic frippery can be accomplished by virtually anyone now that recording equipment and professional editing software are … Continue reading
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Music Blogging- Listening Notes
When I first started this little project, before I even knew Omar, Michael and Keith as anything but annoying commenters at QandO (okay, that is a cheap shot at my co-bloggers, but I have it on good authority that I … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Lance's Page, Music, Robby's Page, Uncategorized
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George Bush swallows Max Headroom and throws up U2
Video after the break.
Posted in Culture, Domestic Politics, Foreign affairs, Humor, Lance's Page, Media, Music
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Songs and Celebrities
When I decided to start writing about rock lyrics, I promised myself I wasn’t going to talk about the Beatles or Bob Dylan, because forests have already been harvested to provide the paper for musings on their lyrics, and I … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Great Lyrics Series, Humor, Media, Music, Robby's Page
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The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul
Theology and moral codes tell us to be good, in conflict with our natural desires and appetites, which tell us the opposite: be bad! Take what you want! Look out for #1! Socializing ourselves to develop a sense of empathy–that … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Great Lyrics Series, Music, Robby's Page, Uncategorized
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Póg mo thóin
It may be well known to you, dear reader, or it may not (it makes no difference), that Pogue Mahone is one of my favorite commenters, bloggers and writers. In fact, he’s been somewhat of a celebrity amongst my partners … Continue reading
Posted in Great Lyrics Series, Humor, MichaelW's Page
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The limits to tolerance
Norm Geras has reached his, and his reasoning certainly resonates with me. On the other hand, I am trying to overcome my feelings about fans of Phish. Luckily my new brother-in-law, who is a musician, hates Phish, loves the Stooges. … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Humor, Lance's Page, Music
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The Star Spangled Banner
Appreciating what happened in the past is a difficult thing. It takes a conscious effort to understand the artistry behind the creating of things and experiences that now are done so easily with technology. The artistry can still be appreciated, … Continue reading
Posted in Lance's Page, Music
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