The names I got were very helpful to sort out my library's contents, so I thank you all. I found out I had about 14 hours worth of "gothic" music and a sprinkling of darkwave to go with the industrial I also have. I will have lots of fun with this one ( Read more... )

So I managed to cajole my way into DJing a goth-themed dance in Second Life next Friday. This is the weekend I will devote to building the playlist for it. I have about two hours to cover and I have a rep for keeping to theme to maintain. The kicker? I really don't know the genre that well, or if I know the bands, I don't always know they're goth. ( Read more... )

The oddness of my childhood musical exposures isn't fully displayed by one song I still remember fondly, but a GenXer with a taste for Bobby Vinton's "My Melody of Love" definitely can't have had a typical childhood playlist.

Got this one from kshandra while she was flipping through a songbook at the bar ( Read more... )

"Born to be alive" - Dumbest lyric hook ever?

I've taken on a regular shift at O'Toole's Pub on Happy Clam Island in Second Life. I'll be DJing from 7-9 PM PT/SLT on Mondays. My playlist as it stands now runs as follows:

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I can go from a jazz arrangement of "Misty" to techno to John Denver's "Forest Lawn" just by letting it do the picking. Oh, and then it fed me the track in the Music field, found on the blog page I mentioned the other day. He figured out how to play the song backwards so it'd sound close to correct when that recording was played backwards.

WFMU's resident blogger had to set a limit as to how many cover versions of "Stairway to Heaven" he listed to make sure he still had a life. He stopped at 101.

I'm not going to detail where in this song exist the points where I either don't want to admit it's true or it just doesn't quite fit. They're there; as I re-read the lyrics, I feel them rise up like rough spots on wood. But of many songs I've heard that speak to a lot of where I am, cadhla, you managed quite accidentally to hit me where I live with this ( Read more... )

Ladies, gentlemen, and small furry animals from Alpha Centauri, I give you the guitar virtuosity of Preston Reed (video gives the full effect, as the sound alone may not quite communicate the fullness of his work). With thanks to the_ogre for the introduction.