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Posts Tagged ‘music’
Taleman Tell me the tale of your life
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010Needs More ‘oke
Friday, August 13th, 2010Why don’t smaller artists release their stuff in Karaoke form?
It seems like a significant source of word-of-mouth advertising, if a fan of yours can take a karaoke disc of your songs with them to any karaoke night they perform at.
For that matter, why don’t big artists release more of their stuff in Karaoke form? Is it really that hard to make a second edit without the primary vocals?
Oh for the days when you could just turn your stereo all the way to one side and get a sing-a-long version that was built into the regular version.
UPDATE: Out of curiosity, I emailed Michelle Shocked’s contact page, to see what they had to say about the lack of Michelle-oke. She asked me for a top 10 list…that sounds hopeful =)
Funky Cold wait a minute
Thursday, August 5th, 2010I’m listening to a remix of the old school track, Funky Cold Medina, and thinking about the lyrics more than I really should. It’s always bugged me, the bit of the ‘story’ when he meets the transvestite, his line about “it’s the 80′s and I’m down with the ladies”….it suggests that there was a decade where he was down with the dudes. Add in the bit about how he gives his male dog some medina, and then lists the dogs coming over to get some from his dog, including Spuds McKenzie and Alex from Stroh’s, and yes, I know that Spuds was actually a girl dog, but as the lyrics read, he seems to be OK with his male dog fucking other male dogs.
Nothing wrong with personal preferences. I just found it amusing, in a bean-plate-y sort of way.
Science Humor
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010Who says hard science nerds can’t have a little fun, and like Beyonce.
That’s not a song, it’s a pickle
Monday, July 19th, 2010I spent a lot of my recent rail trip listening to Chumbawamba’s ABCDEFG, which contains the delightful track Pickle; unless I completely missed the point of the album, it’s about restrictive copyright.
preserved and safe on a high up shelf
where soiled little fingers can’t mess
cataloged labeled and rarely played
polished and pure and possessed
aaaahhh
that’s not music
that’s a pickle
Geyer Street Sheiks of mystery – Solved
Sunday, July 11th, 2010Ebay sent me word that a CD I had on permanent search had finally been offered up for sale, and at a starting price of only one penny no less. I put in my bid and end up getting the disc for $5 when all is said and done, woo hoo. It arrives, in original shrinkwrap it looks like, and plays perfectly. Thing is, I have no idea why I had been searching for the disc now. The band is from St Louis, so could be associated with some band I knew of back then, but it’s all neo-bluegrass from 2003, not industrial/alt/techno from ’95. Strange. Sounds nice enough so far.
UPDATE2: Figured it out. This is the singer from my favorite free CD ever, “Which Dreamed It” by Three Merry Widows.
PNB 2009 Season Encore
Monday, June 14th, 2010Went and saw the PNB‘s 2009 Season Encore performance yesterday. They skipped the Mopey, which I had been really looking forward to. They also hadn’t gotten enough people to fill the upper level economically vs the staff required, so they’d re-seated everyone in 2nd tier…except they forgot the box seats. So I ended up getting re-seated into the first tier box, for only half the price. I’ve always wondered how those high up on the side seats would work out. There was 1 scene where some non-dancing performers were standing so far to the close side of the stage, that I couldn’t really see them, but all the action was in perfect view, plus an extra view of the orchestra pit. When they were about to announce canceling the Mopey, I could see someone coming to tell the conductor, before the announcer had started her announcing.
All in all, an interesting experience. Those dancers sure have muscular legs and tight tights. Too bad I didn’t find my binocs before I went.
UPDATE: Looks like the ‘encore’ for the Encore was “Rug Dance” from “Ordinary Dances” by Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig. Unfortunately, that information isn’t sufficient to find me a recording of the music behind it =(
UPDATE2: The guy gave me the wrong name, it’s “Ordinary Festivals”, and he’s looking into what the music was that was played.
UPDATE3: I decided to make this show my box-seating-experience based on an email from a facebook group called “Seattle Comp Tickets”. I saw an email that started with “PNB presents…” and ended with “featuring sinners, demons and drag queens. The Devil (played by the fabulous Anita Goodman) will be your host, as audience members are encouraged to volunteer their “sins” for judgment.” What I didn’t notice was that the second paragraph was for a completely different show. It seemed like a significant disconnect between what I saw, and what the e-flyer had said I’d see. Silly me =p
Free Ike Reilly at Amazon
Friday, June 11th, 2010Amazon has a free album of Ike mp3′s, you should get on that.
Vegas, Baby!
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010Ran off to Vegas for a short portion of the holiday weekend, to go see Star Wars in Concert with my dad, for his birthday present. When we made the plans, I totally spaced on the significance of the weekend, and that it meant I’d be missing out of NW Folklife in Seattle. Luckily, my desire to get out of Vegas ASAP meant I was getting back here in time for at least one day of folk-lifing, and it turned out to be dry and sunny during the parts of the day I was out and about.
Before we went to see the Star Wars concert, we went to go see the Cirque de Soleil martial-arts show, Ka. Wow. Lots of people on flying ropes, a stage that splits into two independent planes, rotating into humongous walls for them to fall down…the sheer omg-they-are-risking-their-lives-for-my-entertainment-factor is beyond measure. Quite the experience. And that’s not including the 4-way wheel-o-death bit they do near the end. It’s a spectacle worth watching more than once. I will be trying to find some friends to go back with.
Star Wars in concert was just OK by comparison. The orchestra performed admirably, the light show was competently presented, and Anthony Daniels did a fine job narrating things along, though having him walk from one side of the stage to the other after every movement seemed silly and pointless. There were a lot of kids for a show that seemed mostly focused on the music, rather than the visuals, or Star Wars. Lots of people in costumes. I wore my @@ shirt. =p
Cool Iris Wall – Michelle Shocked
Friday, April 23rd, 2010Lets see if I know how to link stuff still =p