“That shit almost caught on!” — Spider Robinson
The Kingston Trio was largely responsible for that. My parents, bless them, had at least one Kingston Trio album, which I listened to obsessively, and with great pleasure.
I regret to read, therefore, that Nick Reynolds, a founding member, has died.
As Jed says over at Freedom Sight, “I feel so break up, I wanna go home.”
That’s what I’d sound like if I tried something like this. Fortunately, this guy is a real musician.
I seriously doubt you have ever heard guitar like this.
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Via Little Green Footballs.
Well, no, actually, not quite yet.
But I can’t get this random, irrelevant song lyric out of my head.
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And I hope that tomorrow I won’t be “Walking on Broken Glass“. I love the intro and hook for that song. It is the perfect musical metaphor for the title.
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Danger! Extreme Earworm Warning!
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The animation and beat here are great, but the lyrics are mildly toxic. If a rash develops, discontinue use and consult a physician.
The tune in the chorus reminds me of something which I can’t quite pull up — I think a hymn. Slower, of course, and very different lyrics, but either a hymn or at least something classical.
I’ll update if I can identify it.
[update, but not for the chorus]
There’s a line at about 0:50 that sounds to me like “I went walking in my momma one day”, but the lyric sites report this as “I want walking in with my momma”. I can’t hear the “with”, and it doesn’t make any sense to me. The animation shows a huge goddess-momma, a Mother Earth, and no matter what the official lyrics say, I’m going to interpret that line as “I was walking in the World….”
Via Ambient Irony’s trip along the path to ostinato.
The tune is not exact, I think, but close enough to nag.
No, I suspect no plagiarism here; something more along the lines of Spider Robinson’s Melancholy Elephants.
I grew up listening to the version by the De Paur Chorus on their album Calypso Christmas, but regrettably I can’t find it on Youtube. I ripped my own digital copy from the horribly worn family vinyl, then hamfistedly scoured it of snaps, crackles, and pops. It’s a great album, great good fun, and I’m thrilled to find it on Amazon. I plan to post this, and another track or two, as soon as the nice clean new copy arrives.
[Welcome, Anchoress readers! And, uh, yes, I wish I understood how Wordpress decides which text to push out with the trackback links; of course this one would emphasize the "porn" reference.]
Via The Anchoress, a TED presentation on, among other things, how music works. We all know the Internet is for porn, but after that, it’s for TED.
As The Anchoress, says, “I know, I know, some of you say music is nothing to you…but - go watch it - this isn’t really about music….Really, go. You’ll like. Trust me.”
She’s right. You will.
After glancing over the Youtube comments, it turns out that Jason Mraz’s “I’m Yours”, the first song in this mash-up, has been speeded up a bit from the original, I think to match the tempo of the other songs used. Apparently, a lot of folks like the speedier version.
My comments over at Pixy’s:
I have read that this collision works because the source songs are all essentially riffs on Pachelbel’s “Canon in D-Major”.
For whatever reason, it does work, beautifully, and I’m bookmarking it so I can’t lose it again.
And yes, I know about the cellist’s rant against the “Canon”. Don’t care, I still love it. Would that all cliches were this beautiful.
I first heard the Canon while visiting a friend in her co-ed dorm. We were talking (no, talking, really, honest), and I slowly became aware of this gorgeous music seeping in from the hall. I had to stop the conversation and find the guy who was playing it and ask him what it was….
And I’ll note that the “Collision” has canon-like aspects to it, where the different songs overlap each other.
I first heard a bit of the Irish traditional “Molly Malone” as a bit of parody by comedian Alan Sherman. Now comes Sinead O’Connor to sing it as it should be sung.
Fair warning: have the tissues ready, or a hand to hold, or a child to hug.
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Tip o’ the hat to Breda.
I poked around on Youtube after that, and found…lots more, after the jump:
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The steps going down to the sea in Zadar, Croatia play music.
Wave action pushes air through organ pipes built into the steps; the pipes are tuned so that wherever you stand, the pipes within your hearing sound good together.
Listen to the Sea Organ Music.
Via Userfriendly’s Link of the Day.
BTW, today’s cartoon is pretty good, too:
One of my two favorite Savoy Brown songs. The other one is “Jack the Toad”, which doesn’t seem to be on Youtube.
But “Just ‘Cos You Got the Blues Don’t Mean You Gotta Sing” is. The video is a slideshow of the poster’s friends, and doesn’t strike me as being relevant. But by golly, they got the song posted, and for that, I’m grateful.
Provoked by Billy Beck’s posting of “Hoochie Koochie Lady“, of which he says, rightfully, “If that ain’t rock music, then there never was any such thing.”
[Beck himself can be seen here, stage right, playing the guitar in his band, the Coots. Warning: the music's good, wish I'd been there, but the video and audio quality is, as Beck calls it, "forensic", recorded for self-evaluation by the band.]
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