Posted in Music Post-off on Jul 8th, 2008
The winner of last week’s Music Post-off is. . .
Waffles!
He wins, with four positive responses to his music posts. David comes in second, with two comments. (All comments from the three of us were excluded for fairness.) To be sure, David’s claim that he is “years ahead” of Waffles in musical tastes still holds up: [...]
Posted in Music Post-off on Jul 5th, 2008
Friends, this is my last post in the music feud. if I had better timing, I would have posted this on Friday, but I didn’t, so there you go. (-:<
This is my favorite song from my favorite musical, 1776. I love it because it is not only historical, but it is fun, too. If only [...]
Posted in Doctor Who, Music Post-off, Sci-Fi on Jul 5th, 2008
Since the BBC airs the Series 4 finale of Doctor Who today, this is the perfect opportunity to watch this live performance by Orbital of their version of the Doctor Who theme (pay special attention to who goes crowd-surfing at the end):
Orbital was a British electronica band, and this was their final live show. It [...]
Posted in Music Post-off on Jul 4th, 2008
It’s Independence Day, and I miss winter, so how about some sentimental Christmas music? Here’s a selection from a British TV special that Channel 4 shows every holiday season. The song is “Walking in the Air”, from The Snowman:
This half-hour special, first aired in 1982, has apparently become, in Britain, iconic of holiday TV in [...]
Posted in Music Post-off on Jul 3rd, 2008
I love Lily Allen. She’s so… so… so BRITISH. Not the old stodgy British like the first Doctor and Jo and Ian and Barbara (Barbara? Barbara! Barbara… Barbara?), but new-wave British, like Rose and the tenth Doctor and all of their lot.
Lily Allen comes from this new line of Brit pop singers — bad girls [...]
Posted in Music Post-off on Jul 2nd, 2008
Among the best video games ever created is a lovely hybrid from Quintet and Enix called ActRaiser. Released for the SNES in 1990, it’s half side-scrolling platformer and half a Sim City-style menu-based simulation of world construction. The austere concept has you playing as a god, and your job is to descend to the [...]
Posted in Music Post-off on Jul 2nd, 2008
I am a fan of instrumental music. For as much as I like words, literature and poetry, there is something about the purity of a piece of instrumental music. It goes beyond other kinds of music, into the most undiluted form of abstraction. My favorite instrumental music is classical. When I listen, there is something [...]
Posted in Birds, Music Post-off on Jul 1st, 2008
For today’s music, let’s have something that’s pure sprightly fun, and has birds. This is Papageno’s first aria, “Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja”, from W.A. Mozart’s 1791 opera Die Zauberflöte (Eng.: “The Birdcatcher am I”, from The Magic Flute):
(You’ll want to watch it full-screen, since the capture quality isn’t terribly great.) Papageno is here played [...]
Posted in Music Post-off on Jul 1st, 2008
I don’t care what anyone says, the Barenakes Ladies are great. Canadian Rock is awesome.
Glad I got that out of the way. Never you mind that large chip on my shoulder.
I like most of the music that comes from those crazy Torontarian guys. For a long time my favorite of their songs was “If I [...]
Posted in Music Post-off on Jun 30th, 2008
Today’s musical piece will be a bit briefer. Here’s German Europop band X-Perience with “A Neverending Dream”:
Released in 1996, when the band was a year old, it reached number four in Germany and remains the band’s most successful hit. That’s probably because it’s damn near the perfect pop dance song. It has a [...]
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