Category: Music

Somebody took Billy Joel’s history lesson, “We Didn’t Start the Fire”, and made an annotated version of the lyrics. Now if only I could find somebody to do the same thing with the theme song from “Cheers”. Seriously though, I’d never heard of George Santayana before reading this annotation, and I’m genuinely amazed that I…

There was a time when I absolutely loved Jonatha Brooke’s music. I listen to those songs now, and I just don’t hear them the same anymore for some reason. And the new album, Back in the Circus ….. Well, yeah. That’s too bad. Although “Better After All” does kind of grab me. I think it’s…

Muted Tones is cool in concept and in execution (at least based on the first song I’ve heard so far): Seven curators, seven months, seventy minutes of music. Each month is assigned to a curator, whose job it is to fill ten minutes with the sounds of their choosing. They are invited to keep a…

You know, This Video (Quicktime 9 MB) of the Peanuts Gang lip synching the Outcast song “Hey Yeah” is the best thing that has happened to me in the entire month of January. Whether that says more about the video or this crappy month is left as an exercise for the reader.

Now that is truly disturbing. (Quicktime – Herve Villechaize singing “Why Do People Fight”)

The food network has a new show called Dweezil and Lisa. Dweezil Zappa and Lisa Loeb are married or dating or something like that, and I guess they’re trying to cash in on the whole celebrity relationship reality TV craze by doing a show where they cook and go to restaurants. As you might expect,…

I seem to be running out of morning. Staying up super late will do that to you I suppose. Anyway, I don’t have time to listen to these Dakota Smith MP3s right now. Maybe later. via

I want to like Radiohead. I really do. I want to like them in much the same way I want to NOT like Avril Lavigne. Most of the time, objectively, I can even manage it (or manage to NOT do it as the case may be). It isn’t all that hard really. It’s just that…

I shouldn’t enjoy these songs as much as I do.

I’m not generally one to rail against musicians selling out to advertisers. I have to say though, there is just something so wrong about hearing a Cure song in a TV ad. I’m not even an exceptionally huge cure fan. It took “Friday I’m in Love” to even be able to develop an appreciation for…