Art is the music we make from the bewildered cry of being alive. ~Maria Popova
20 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in On a Lighter Note, Video of the Week Tags: nickelback, nickelblock
20 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in Video of the Week Tags: neil young, old man
Neil Young performs “Old Man” on February 23rd, 1971 at the BBC Television Theater on London, prior to its release on 1972’s Harvest album.
The song was written for the caretaker of Broken Arrow Ranch in northern California, which Young purchased in 1970.
19 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in Video of the Week Tags: uptown funk, uptown funk movie mashup
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Gene Kelly and the like are matched up perfectly with Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk” in a montage created by Nerdfest UK to promote film preservation charities.
The video was inspired by another which pairs the same song with 100 more contemporary movies:
18 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in General Posts Tags: artists who hated their biggest hit
(via Mental Floss)
by Eric van Rheenen
Sinead O’Connor announced earlier this year that she’ll no longer sing “Nothing Compares 2 U” because she doesn’t emotionally identify with the song. O’Connor was hardly the first artist to grow tired of a signature hit.
Read more: http://cms.mentalfloss.com/article/51906/10-artists-who-hated-their-biggest-hit
14 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: friends for life, julee cruise
Julee Cruise: “Friends For Life” (1993)
If Julee Cruise’s voices sounds, well, eerily familiar it’s because she sang on three songs that were featured in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks television series, as well as one from his 1985 film Blue Velvet.
13 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
(via purple clover)
by John Birmingham
The song came to him in the early ’70s. Paul Simon explains: “I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It’s chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.”
In 1967, John Lennon received a letter from a student at a high school near Liverpool whose professor had assigned his class to analyze Beatles lyrics. That prompted Lennon to write a song that defied analysis—filling it with lines like “crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess” and “elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna,” all summed up by the famous refrain: “goo goo goo joob.”
Every Moment Has A Song 