From nutopianStep 1: Put your music player on shuffle ( Read more... )

Has anybody noticed the strong similarity between the Decemberists and Jethro Tull? The former do not have a flautist, but they've sure got the "long, convoluted narrative songs with flourishes" thing down.

( Buffy fannish aside that non-fen should probably skip )

Ganked from xmorningxrosex:

List 10 artists that you like. (Do this before reading the other questions.)

1. Magnetic Fields
2. Tori Amos
3. Iron & Wine
4. Garmarna
5. Liz Phair
6. Jim White
7. Metric
8. Boa
9. Poe
10. Massive Attack

( the answers )

Okay, so my latest favorite song is "The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure" by Magnetic Fields (it's on 69 Love Songs, disc 3--much love to ubilIronically, I discovered this song like the day after I had to read Saussure for my rhetoric and technology class. But anyway, I am now consumed with a burning curiosity: how DID Ferdinand de Saussure die? He ( Read more... )

You know about the Billy Joel song "Captain Jack," right?

But Captain Jack will get you high tonight
And take you to your special island
Captain Jack will get you by tonight
Just a little push 'n' you'll be smilin'

Yeah.

I need a Captain Jack icon.

...is my second favorite folk song lyric after anything about the bones of a murdered girl ratting out her killer.

I really need to do some reading now. Argh.

I just discovered that Bran Van 3000's track "More Shopping" contains the lines:

"East is East and West is West
New York City to Dunsinane"

This amuses me.

Ganked from mogigraphia by way of donnatron:

1. Put your playlist on shuffle.
2. Post the first lines to the first 25 songs to come up (along with these instructions).
3. Have people guess the songs and artists in comments to the post.
4. Post the answers to the ones people guessed correctly. A couple of days later, post the first two lines of the ones no one got and ( Read more... )

Ganked from mogigraphia by way of donnatron1. Put your playlist on shuffle ( Read more... )

So I got the greatest hits of Figgy Duff on CD, because I really like a good song about pirating and they didn't have anything at the public library, and now that I've got it I want to really LEARN the song about pirating, because I like to have pirate songs to sing while I shower or do the dishes or whatever. I've found some slight variations on ( Read more... )