Most of you have only known me as a Writers' Comm alum. While it's true that it's my main creative outlet, I also have reasonably extensive training as a musician, to the point where I was a Voice major my Freshman year after abandoning Comp Sci (while I still like, but found our program useless). One of my major beefs with the program (and among ( Read more... )

The meme is to list and/or upload five songs beginning with a specific letter; I was assigned "N" by _coherent.

( Cut to protect your sanity )

My meme wasn't entirely sensical, so I did a similar thing by taking the first lines from a giant book of madrigals ("The A Cappella Singer ( Read more... )

Have you ever seen a show (I think it's on Nick Jr) called Lazy Town? Basically, it's a kid's show that encourages (among the usual "be kind to others," "share," "listen to your superiors" fare) physical exercise in kids.

It is also, for reasons I have yet to determine, full of charming European House music for children.

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Isn't that catchy? And ( Read more... )

So The Smiths released a Greatest-est Hits album called "The Sounds of The Smiths."

Finally, I am free to like them. It's not that I didn't like them before, per se- the music is good, the lyrics are clever, it gives me serious indie cred- but there was one huge barrier to my enjoyment: the recordings. The band broke up before I was born, ( Read more... )

This song, Raua Needmine ("Curse Upon Iron" in Estonian) will make you shit bricks. Srsly.

http://4.71.164.231/48/1e/eb4/ad8/ca3/7ae/ea4/ded/668/db2/07d/36a/e09/5c1.mp3

Lyrics:
Ohoi sinda, rauda raiska ( Read more... )

Having recently finished HP7 (at between 1:00 and 1:01 this morning), I will now revise my spoiler policy. You still may not post spoilers in my comments, with the exception of this post, which we can use to discuss. It'll be fun. But for the others, I won't post anything substantial about it here, other than this post ( Read more... )

This is one of my favourite songs ever, hands down. And now Chanticleer has recorded it, and my life is complete ( Read more... )