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Music Meme, Day 16
Day 16's prompt is "one of your favourite classical songs". I'm probably not really able to be particularly picky about this, since if we define "classical" to mean "before the Romantic era and after the Baroque one" and song to mean "a piece of music with a vocal component" then I don't think I have any favourite classical songs (there are ( Read more... ) -
Music Meme, Day 15
Day 15's prompt is "a song that is a cover by another artist". I've already done two of these, and in general I don't feel that the original author of a song has any particular claim on producing the definitive performance of it (though any performance of it remains a performance of their song; you don't get to claim authorship by making a ( Read more... ) -
Music Meme, Day 14
Today's prompt is "a song that you would love played at your wedding." This makes me sad, because it feels like the odds of me ever having a wedding to play music at are diminishing rapidly as the years go by. Particularly so this year perhaps since this year's failed relationship had much more potential than the previous ones. Ah well ( Read more... ) -
Music Meme, day 13
Today's prompt is "one of your favourite 70s songs". The 1970s is somewhat the decade that music forgot; countercultural movements became mainstream and didn't know what to do next and so we largely end up with a lot of pointless excess and not much in the way of actually interesting music, and things pick up again in the 80s as people start ( Read more... ) -
Music Meme, day 12
Today's prompt is "a song from your pre-teen years". I turned 13 in 1997, so I assume I've got any time between my birth and then to go for, which was a particularly good era in British popular music and in fact I've already picked three songs (Waterfall, Champagne Supernova and Six Underground) from it. But there's a few songs I particularly ( Read more... ) -
Music Meme, day 11 (and some other stuff)
This is somewhat late, which was caused by me spending the week on a family holiday/get-together in a rather large holiday house near Lyme Regis. It was quite good fun and I got to see some things that I'd last been to when I was one (and unsurprisingly don't remember), including a violently pink tram and the Fleet Air Arm museum (with bonus ( Read more... ) -
Music Meme, Day 10
Today's prompt is "a song that makes you sad". Resisting the temptation to go for Tall Ships due to how long it is (it does make me sad though - it's a 15-minute-ish medley of songs telling the story of a village clinging to a precarious existence that doesn't have any good choices left), I'll instead pick a fake transportation ballad (it was ( Read more... ) -
Music Meme, Day 9
Today's prompt is "A song that makes you happy". There's quite a lot of these across several different genres, either because they remind me of happy memories or because they have an intrinsic uplifting bounce to them. This one does both of those, and it has a contrabass balalaika:
Katzenjammer played in Cambridge twice in 2015 and both of ( Read more... ) -
Music Meme, Day 8
Today's prompt is "A song about drugs or alcohol". I actually found this quite difficult, particularly if the interpretation of "about" is fairly strict (The Drugs Don't Work, for example, is about terminal illness). I ended up here in the end, which is much more clearly a song about, well, both really:
It took me about fifteen seconds from "I'm ( Read more... ) -
Music Meme, Day 7
Today's prompt is "A song to drive to". Most music that I think of as driving music is rock of one kind or another, with the slight exception of Seth Lakeman, whose scrambling fiddle melodies (Kitty Jay, Lady of the Sea, Race to be King, Last Rider etc) always seemed like a perfect fit for the insanity of places like Coventry's inner ring road. ( Read more... )
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