In my music world, there are very few things as cool as Rage Against the Machine covering a song by Cypress Hill. I have NO IDEA why I don't have their album of covers.

Oh, iTunes shuffle, you've done it again.

So now, all because of a conversation I had yesterday with jaina about the music in South Park, "Uncle Fucka" has been stuck in my head all morning.

I'm waiting till someone finally asks what it is that I'm humming.

I was just talking shit about you the other night to maeveth, and here you come with The Doors on Classic Albums. You just keep dragging me back in! XD

Man, I love John Lee Hooker. I got to see him live about a year or so before he passed, and while I loved the show, it made me wish I'd gotten to see him in his prime ( Read more... )

Oh, Mr. Berry, you bad, bad muthafucka. 81 years old, and Wiki has a pic of him performing as recently as last July. I'll tell y'all right now--when I'm 81, there's no way in hell I'll still be working voluntarily ( Read more... )

The Police at Hatfield Polytechnic in 1979.

This is much better than that crap I was watching before. XD

VH1 Classic is showing a series on the history of rock and roll. I just watched Little Richard perform Tutti Frutti. Then I watched Pat Boone do the same song and almost vomited. He was trying to snap his fingers on beat and failing miserably. You know when stand-up comedians do the whole stereotypical white guy dancing? That's what he looked ( Read more... )

I'd resigned myself to the fact that I was probably never going to be moved by anything you sang ever ever again, and then you go and sing on the soundtrack for Love in the Time of Cholera ( Read more... )

Name three pieces of music you find particularly moving. It can be because you've associated it with something, or because the music itself just always gets you.

Mine:

Scheherazade, 2nd movement (especially the last 3-4 minutes).I remember this piece catching me off guard the first time I heard it; it was easy to relegate it to background sound ( Read more... )