Free Music!
Posted: May 24, 2012 Filed under: Listening Leave a comment »I’ve just downloaded Phish’s Live Bait, Volume Seven.
The Staying Power of Music
Posted: May 16, 2012 Filed under: Deep, Listening Leave a comment »I’m not sure what inspired me to do this, but I downloaded Men at Work’s “Cargo” off of Google Play last night. I’m a little hazy here, but I am pretty sure I first bought this record on vinyl close to when it was released (in 1983). It was definitely in very heavy rotation on my record player for a while back then.
Prior to this morning, I don’t remember the last time I listened to “Cargo,” but I imagine it was sometime in the 1980s. Yet there was I was on the bus this afternoon, listening to “It’s a Mistake” for the first time in decades and easily humming along to every single note in the guitar solo of that song. I was astonished, not by my own memory but by music. What other art form has that kind of staying power?
Rock and Roll at the Caps
Posted: May 7, 2012 Filed under: Listening, Sport, Videos Leave a comment »At the Caps game on Saturday, the video below flashed up on the Jumbotron for a few moments during an interlude. In another. they played a Beasties snippet. and the announcer gave it up to MCA. Very nice touches. Now, I’d like to see them bust out “Baba O’Reilly” and “Two Minutes to Midnight,” like they do during B’s games up at the TD Garden.
Unexpected Wye Oak
Posted: April 30, 2012 Filed under: Listening Leave a comment »
The song shuffle function on my new Galaxy Nexus (a whole other story) coughed up “Warning” by Baltimore’s Wye Oak. I had no idea what the tune was – it got onto my phone via a “song of the day” podcast that I signed up for years ago. Fantastic. I’m going to check out their other stuff.
The Power of a Jingle
Posted: April 5, 2012 Filed under: Consumer products, Listening Leave a comment »I woke up yesterday, and one of the first things that popped into my head, inexplicably, was this jingle:
Life should be one part Seagram’s
Two parts fun
You can hear the tune here. According to this website, the jingle dates back to 1984. I was 12 then.
Downloaded: Flying Colors
Posted: March 29, 2012 Filed under: Listening Leave a comment »I’m looking forward to giving this band a listen.
Vultures: From Demo to 2011
Posted: March 22, 2012 Filed under: Listening Leave a comment »H/T to YEMblog for flagging this Tom Marshall post on the “Vultures” demo:
Here’s the song as performed at Merriweather last summer:
Downloaded: Wasting Light
Posted: March 18, 2012 Filed under: Listening Leave a comment »I downloaded the Foo Fighters’ new one last night, and it is hooking me. The great thing is that there are four of the band’s records that I don’t own and haven’t listened to yet.
