Metro Shuffle: Tragically Hip’s “Something On”
Posted: January 21, 2010 Filed under: Cinema, Listening | Tags: metro shuffle, The Fisher King, Tragically Hip Leave a comment »On my commute home, I dialed up The Tragically Hip’s “Something On.” Tune runs three minutes and 22 seconds and has some solid rock hooks. This evening, it also triggered for me that sensation where public transit becomes a bit of a music video.
Contemplating this phenomenon, I was reminded of a particularly jaw-dropping scene from “The Fisher King.” Here it is.
A Blurry Photo of Liz Phair at 930 in 2008
Posted: October 20, 2009 Filed under: Concerts, Deep, Listening | Tags: ColorSplash, Liz Phair, Matt Dellinger, metro shuffle 3 Comments »
Bits and pieces this evening.
- Metro shuffle. On the bus this morning, Liz Phair’s “Explain it to Me” popped up. It occurred to me that I’ve probably heard the song 5,328 times, but I’m not at all sick of it. In fact, it still hooks. Why? Why is that? I tire of some tunes after three listens.
- ColorSplash. That’s Liz Phair in the picture above, by the way. She’s the shiny, blurry one. I snapped the shot at a 2008 gig at 930 Club. The picture ain’t much. I tried to fancy it up a bit with ColorSpash, an iPhone app I downloaded last night.
- Life Blogging. MPomy will love this one: via Matt Dellinger, a story about a camera that “promises to capture your whole life.” What was that about the panopticon?
Let Down
Posted: October 15, 2009 Filed under: Listening | Tags: Let Down, metro shuffle, OK Computer, Radiohead, shazam 1 Comment »
Thom Yorke, originally uploaded by mehan.
All I’ve got this evening is a Metro shuffle reflection: “Let Down,” by Radiohead. I’m pretty sure I first heard the song on the radio back when “OK Computer” was released in the summer of 1997. DC 101 or something. It was one of those situations where you hear a song, and you go out and buy the record immediately. I suppose that’s the thinking behind Shazam, which I just downloaded today but haven’t really used yet.
Anyway, I love the way Thom Yorke brings the heat in the song.
Little Flashes that are Just Comfortable Visuals
Posted: October 14, 2009 Filed under: Artists, Listening, Technology | Tags: Bldgblog, I Heart Guitar, improvising, metro shuffle, Peter Hodgson, shazam, Steve Vai, XTC 2 Comments »A multitude of bits and pieces this evening.
- I’m not sure if this is a phenomenon, but I found myself checking out someone else’s iPod on the Metro the other day. You know, just to see what they were listening to. Call it “iPod snooping.” I got the song, “Contact,” but not the artist. Was it Phish? Was it the Police? I’ll never know. On a related note, I got my first good look at a Kindle this evening. The guy was reading the Washington Post on it.
- Hodgson has an interview up with Steve Vai. On improvisation:
Improvising, most of it is listening – responding to what’s coming into your ears and letting your fingers move in an unobstructed way. And there are all these little flashes that are just comfortable visuals, like you’re hearing something and you know that there’s a particular scale or note or atmosphere or chord that’s going to work.
- Metro shuffle: XTC, “The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead,” followed by “My Bird Performs.” Those tunes just bring me back to the 90s.
- FT’s Techblog on Shazam, a “mobile phone music discovery” service that apparently is attracting venture money. Can’t say I’m familiar at all with the company. Maybe I’ll check out their iPhone app. Don’t cost nuthin’.
- Bldgblog links to a blogger who captures “the internal sounds of WWII bunkers,” including some freaky pigeon noises.
