From egretplume. I skipped spoken-word clips for meme purposes.

( cut for boring analysis of my music collection )

I KNOW there are folkies on my flist.

WHY did none of you mention to me that Bellowhead's second album came out in OCTOBER?

YOU ARE ALL FIRED.

ETA IT HAS A KAZOO ORCHESTRA ON IT.

that when one's mood is sauntering vaguely downwards and one feels in need of a hug but is without someone to administer one --

Paul Robeson's version of "I'm Gonna Let It Shine" (*points to last.fm data*) is not at all bad as auditory substitutes go.

"Hard Times Come Again No More" performed by Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Rufus Wainwright, Emmylou Harris, Mary Black, Karen Matheson, and Rod Paterson.

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And because I love you all, here too is the same song performed by Mavis Staples.

from this post

( are cut because nobody's that interested in meme quizzes )

Ganked from suffisaunce.

Step 1: put your music player on shuffle
Step 2: post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Check off the songs when someone guesses both artist and title correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up is cheating(You don't have to guess the artist if it's a traditional or classical song. I've ( Read more... )

So for possibly-obvious reasons I have felt an impulse to listen to Depression-era music lately, and this leads to one of those "songs that shouldn't really mash up but do in my head anyway": "Frankie and Johnny" has a rather unsettling habit of morphing into "The Boll Weevil" and back for no good reason.

The farmer took the boll weevil ( Read more... )

I have to admit I can never resist music memes because they afford me opportunities to show off my musical taste. And that's fun. So!

All links go to YouTube (but almost everything here is in my iTunes. Except for "Hot Stuff").

( music meme )

From the department of strangely appropriate iTunes segues I just got: bellicose and catchy medieval French tune "L'Homme Armé" to ubiquitous cartoon staple "Powerhouse."

Which I am now envisioning as the background music for Agincourt in some extraordinarily cracked out production of Henry V.

John Dowland = the original emo musician.

Y/Y?