I'm curious about Sting's too. I've listened to the samples, and I can't decide if it's weird or just cool. I do like a lot of his choices, like "The Cherry Tree Carol".
Lorne: Snakes? Uh-huh. And they came out of your what? Okay. Okay, well, did they get up there themselves or is this part of a, you know, a thing? No, I'm not judging...Do we fight snakes? Angel: Only if they're giant. Or demons. Or giant demons. Are they giant demon snakes? Lorne: Well, unless this guy's 30 feet tall, I'm thinking they're of the garden variety.
'Lineage'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Dana - Dec 11, 2009 7:34:28 am PST #2110 of 6436
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Tom Scola - Dec 11, 2009 9:05:55 am PST #2111 of 6436
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Shir - Dec 11, 2009 12:10:16 pm PST #2112 of 6436
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I gave up on Tori Amos since The Beekeeper, but From the Choirgirl Hotel is maybe one of the best albums I ever had the chance of listen to ("pleasure" is inapplicable in this case). "Playboy Mommy" still hurts me like nothing else can. And of course I bought tickets to her show in Israel, even when it was after my big crush on her (musically), 3 seconds after they were available. Such is the nature of love.
Sometime, about 4 computer formatting ago, I had every last song of hers.
Then I got distracted by Greg Dulli. Still there, AIFG.
Jon B. - Dec 13, 2009 2:09:52 pm PST #2113 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
The Beatles: 1000 Years Later [link]
DavidS - Dec 13, 2009 7:48:43 pm PST #2114 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Sweet! I have scored "I Hate Christmas" by Oscar the Grouch, "Santafly" by Martin Mull (think "Superfly"), and "Kung Fu Christmas" by National Lampoon (spot on 70s soul parody).
Thank you WFMU!
Jon B. - Dec 14, 2009 2:50:55 am PST #2115 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Sweet! Here's the link: [link]
tommyrot - Dec 14, 2009 7:14:56 am PST #2116 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Some music theory / science stuff for your Monday: The Biology of Music: Why we like what we like
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A tone is a sound, like a note before it gets a specific name, and a scale is a collection of tones grouped in ascending or descending order. We are able to hear a huge number of tones and, theoretically, there's billions of ways to group them, but humans tend to focus on a very small number of scales, usually made up of either five or seven tones. The same scales are used over and over, throughout most of Western music and much of human music as a whole, said Dale Purves, Ph.D., professor of neurobiology at Duke University and director of the Duke-NUS Neuroscience Program in Singapore. In fact, even styles of music that sound completely different--say classical Chinese music vs. Western folk music--use the same scale, he said. They just use it differently.
So why are we so drawn to certain tones and certain groups of tones? Purves' team thinks they have an answer--an explanation that links what humans like with who they are, biologically.
The key, Purves said, lies in our evolutionary history.
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Frankenbuddha - Dec 14, 2009 3:01:03 pm PST #2117 of 6436
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Major cognitive dissonance 2009: Amanda Palmer is playing a New Year's Eve show.
At Boston Symphony Hall.
With The Boston Pops conducted by Keith Lockhart.
Head 'splodey now!
Sophia Brooks - Dec 14, 2009 3:12:50 pm PST #2118 of 6436
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
At first I thought she was going to be on Dick Clark's (Carson Daly's) Rockin New Years Eve. Which I think would be more cognitive dissonance.
Tom Scola - Dec 14, 2009 3:21:50 pm PST #2119 of 6436
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Blondie's new single, We Three Kings.