Miscellaneous youtube videos for songs I've been listening to lately below the cut. I expect some of these to appall various family members, but to them I have only one thing to say: Ed McCurdy.
( Six videos )

I just learned that one of my coworkers was once in a band (Annwn) that toured with one of Emma Bull's bands (Flash Girls).

Funky.

Another short dip into the theme meme: name the artist and title, given these snippets of lyrics. Only one correct guess per person, please, to give everybody a chance. Some of these are fairly obscure, but not all. (And remember, kids; using Google is cheating even if you work there!)
Final update: unguessed lyrics bolded and the citation ( Read more... )

Following nothings's lead, paulobrian gave me the letter V and memed me to name my favorite ten songs beginning with that letter. And, uh, well, here are my current favorite ten songs that start with V. Well, four, actually - that is all that I could think of that I know and like. (Curse you, Paul!) [* More! storme reminded me of some; thanks!] [* and edited because ( Read more... )

Google Translate: English -> German -> French -> English

I am a poor boy and my history which I am seldom declared have to want to say to resistance wasted for Pocketful Mumbles, thus satisfy promises all the lies and joke, still the man hears, which he would like to hear and neglects the remainder, mmmm.

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Here are the first non-refrain lines of the next ten songs I'm listening to. Can you guess the songs and groups? [edit: added some more of the lyrics; some of these are vague or hard to make out in the original. also corrected "leery" -> "lairy"]
Final update: it looks like nobody knows the rest of these, so I've given the answers.
( Lyrics snippets )

There's a concerts-you-have-attended meme floating around, asking that you name twenty musicians/musical acts that you've seen & heard. 20? Hm.

I've seen ...thirteen? that I can remember. In only roughly chronological order:

( musicians i've heard live )

In honor of the new year, a themed song lyrics meme ( Read more... )

This one isn't random: it's a loosely themed playlist, drawn from tracks I have available on this machine. Speculation as to the theme is welcome; it was hard to come up with many really good exemplars ( Read more... )

Everyone else is doing it, so why can't I? This should be pretty easy, my current playlist is terribly mainstream. Mostly.

Step 1: Get your playlist together, put it on random, and play ( Read more... )