There’s no accounting

…for taste, I suppose. There are certain videos that I never tire of, no matter how many times I watch them. This is one:

On the other hand, at any given point in my life, there’s always been a pop star or musician who becomes the object of irrational, intense, dislike. For the moment, it’s [...]

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Shima-uta, times four

Thinking about the forms of musical genre led me, once again, to YouTube, where I ended up spending an unhealthy chunk of my day watching videos of Okinawan music - especially the contemporary stuff, which provides a case study, I think, in the importance of hybrid form and spiraling trajectories rather than clear progression. Even [...]

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The 80s were it

I hadn’t heard before reading this post about Rickrolling, an internet meme that’s become popular in recent months. According to the Wikipedia entry on Rickrolling:
Rickrolling is an Internet meme involving Rick Astley’s music video for his song “Never Gonna Give You Up”. In a Rickroll, a person provides a link they claim is relevant to [...]

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Saturday night study break

Or, a break from whatever it is I think I’m doing…
I never much took to Keane, though I have to admit ‘Is it any wonder?’ is pretty darn catchy (note that if the handheld camera in ‘Cloverfield’ made you feel vertiginous, this video will have the same effect):

I guess my rap against Keane is that [...]

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Saturday night music nostalgia

I had a minor madeleine moment last night, when I noticed while waiting for a friend at a bank that ‘Gimme Some Lovin’ ‘ by the Spencer Davis Group was being piped into the room. This set off a paroxysm of nostalgia for Steve Winwood’s early music, even though I must have heard Gimme Some [...]

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