"While I was overdubbing this the engineer warned me over the headphones that my guitar was out of tune. I didn't say anything back but I was making faces like: Duh. I didn't think he could see me but unbeknownst to me there was a video monitor in the iso booth."
- Neil Hagerty re: "Strawberry Soda" in the liner notes for "Singles, Live,

I got the new Spoon album, "Gimme Fiction," the other day. Since then, I've listened to it all the way through a few times. At first, I thought it started out weak and got better as it went, then the second time, I thought it peaked early. Overall, I thought it was nice but a little dull; better than "Girls Can Tell" (my least favorite Spoon album ( Read more... )

Guitar solos can serve one of two functions within a song. They can serve a repetitive function, by reinforcing a melodic theme that has already been introduced (see most Kurt Cobain solos, which typically follow the vocal melody of the song). This type of solo, although it serves a purpose, doesn't interest me that much, as the way it works is ( Read more... )

I propose a website wherein ideas for projects, artistic or whatever, can be donated to the public. It would be divided into categories like "songs," "movies/plays," "books," "inventions," "furniture," "philosophy," etc. It would be a clearing house for people who are adept in the conceptual but not in the practical (like me). For example, this ( Read more... )

Griggles - Small apples. In cyder counties, boys who collect these after the principal ones are gathered call it "griggling." - James Halliwell's "Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words," 1855 ( Read more... )

I have developed a theory that the reason that the CSI shows are so popular is because they use songs by the Who for their theme songs, but not just Who songs, and not just the five or so Who songs that normal people actually like, but like the best awesomest 30 seconds of those Who songs. For example, if one of them uses "Baba O'Riley," (and who ( Read more... )

http://evil-wire.org/~ampere/mp3/funky/

It's the opening band, and it's Friday night, and I wish I was anywhere but here. The bass player's bass has got two string too many, and the drummer wants to buy me a beer. The singer's got some songs that she wrote about war, and she's selling it like it is. The people that I know aren't the people that I want to know, do those folks even exist?

Music lovers of the modern world - free yourselves from the icy talons of mechanical domination ( Read more... )

* Clapping: Sound created by the force of two hands striking each other. Pitch could potentially be controlled by changing the way that the hands are cupped, which parts of the hands strike each other, and how much force is used, but I find this difficult to do in a predictable fashion. Even trying to maintain a consistent clapping sound is ( Read more... )