x-posted from Natter:
Is this what happens when you do too much Ecstasy? You start to believe stuff like this?:
Stonehenge was 'giant concert venue'
A university professor who is an expert in sound and a part-time DJ believes Stonehenge was created as a dance arena for listening to "trance-style" music.
The monument has baffled archaeologists who have argued for decades over the stone circle's 5,000-year history but academic Rupert Till believes he has solved the riddle by suggesting it may have been used for ancient raves.
Mr Till, an expert in acoustics and music technology at Huddersfield University, West Yorks., believes the standing stones had the ideal acoustics to amplify a "repetitive trance rhythm".
The original Stonehenge probably had a "very pleasant, almost concert-like acoustic" that our ancestors slowly perfected over many generations
Okaaaay.....
Of course, other experts have stated:
In ancient times...
Hundreds of years before the dawn of history
Lived a strange race of people... the Druids
No one knows who they were or what they were doing
But their legacy remains
Hewn into the living rock... Of Stonehenge
For sap --
"Angel Eyes" by Jeff Healy
"The First Time" by Surface
"All the Man That I Need" by Whitney Houston
"Honey Come Back" by Glen Campbell
Just about anything by Bobby Vinton
Just about anything by Connie Francis
And I'd add, "Groovy Kind of Love" by Phil Collins, though whether that's from the song or memories I associate with it is another question.
Sappy songs:
"Two Little Feet" by Greg Brown
"Ice Cream" by Sarah McLaughlin
"Take Me In Your Arms And Love Me" by Gladys Knight and the Pips
"Arrow" by Cheryl Wheeler (not a happy sappy song, but a post-heartbreak song--so wretchedly, sorrowfully great)
and for non-romantic-love sap, I love Judy Garland's version of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" -- lovely and aching and so deeply felt.
Oh, I thought of a sappy song that i like!
"All I Want" by Joni Mitchell
Gladys Knight and the Pips also did a sapful medley of "Try to Remember" (the kind of September...) and "The Way We Were."
How about "Kissing a Fool?"
"More Than Words" Extreme
"More Than Words" Extreme
Ha! I remember having a big debate about whether this was a sappy, romantic song or a cheesy come-on song.
Goodness- I LOVE "More Than Words"!!
I remember having a big debate about whether this was a sappy, romantic song or a cheesy come-on song.
I'm going to go with cheesy on that one.
Finally got my royal collection together. Lots of good stuff, but here are some favorite discoveries courtesy of the Buffistas:
Oldies but goodies:
"I'm a King Bee" by The Rolling Stones
"It's Good to be King" by Tom Petty
People I like more and more the more I hear:
"A King and a Queen" by Okkervil River
"Queen of the Savages" by The Magnetic Fields
"Cooksferry Queen" by Richard Thompson
Totally new to me:
"Prince Nez" by Squirrel Nut Zippers
"The King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. 1" by Neutral Milk Hotel
"Princess Of The Universe" by Utopia
ETA: Thanks for your contributions to my continuing musical education!
