Category: Music
My Musical Conversation
Willy, dude, you can’t crash on my couch again tonight. I know I can’t push you around, and we’re tight and all, but I’m not beyond knocking you out with a ball peen hammer and pushing you out my car onto your front lawn, dig? (apologies to Jeff Goldstein)
A Music Lyric Bleg
I need some help from my bilingual readers out there. Does anyone have the original German lyrics to the Christmas Carol “As With Gladness, Men of Old”? The German version of the tune is “Treuer Heiland”. I’d greatly appreciate anyone who can help me out with this. You’ll get the credit and my eternal thanks [...]
Worst. Song. Ever.
I need all of you Led Zeppelin fans out there to sit down. Please. “The Battle of Evermore” is easily the worst song I have ever heard. Ever. [Ever, ever?? - ed Ever, ever.] It has lyrics that make “Macarthur Park” read like Shakespeake. What’s that? You don’t believe me? The apples of the valley [...]
More Blender Mayhem
Disk Four: Tall, Tall Trees – Alan Jackson Lonely Boy – Blackhawk Make Me Smile – Chicago Freddy’s Dead (Theme from “Superfly”) – Curtis Mayfield Life is a Highway – Tom Cochrane Viva Las Vegas – Elvis Presley Abacab (Extended Version) – Genesis I Wanna Be Sedated – The Ramones Day-O (Banana Boat Song) – [...]
The Shack’s Musical Blender
Every once in a while, I get the urge to go through my CDs and mp3s and put together a couple good compilations. This goes back to when I was a teenager and used to make them on my dual tape deck and it’s pretty much carried through to today when I can do the [...]
One of the Great Composers has Died.
Elmer Bernstein, composer who was nominated for 14 Oscars in his career has passed away. I referred to him as one of the great composers, and I believe that is true. His movie soundtrack work stands with anything done by modern classical composers. His works included such unforgettable movies as “The Magnificent Seven” (the finest [...]
Prince is Still the Man
I’ve been a big-time fan of Prince since well back into the 1980s. It’s been a while since we’ve seen someone of his immense musical talent and attitude at the same time. I was sorry to see his music decline a good bit in the last couple or three years. But he’s definitely back with [...]
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