So. It seems to Your Humble Blogger that there are four categories of Christmas music. First, there’s the category I’ll call Lessons and Carols. Sacred music, Church music. I tend to call this stuff “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” for…
Well, and time for some frivolity here in this Tohu Bohu. Your Humble Blogger noticed that the number of “artists” listed in his computerized music player topped 750 on the same week that he alphabetized the old CD collection, which…
Your Humble Blogger’s Perfect Non-Reader has finally developed a taste for Trout Fishing in America, the children’s music band for people who take fun seriously. That’s just a gratuitous endorsement, as YHB could talk about threw it out the window…
The always interesting Clive Thompson has a bee in his proverbial about the iPod. Which is OK. The latest thing he addresses is the latest research on how people use their portable digital music players. The research (by Solutions Research…
My Perfect Non-Reader is listening to a Long Playing record, which plays for more or less twenty minutes before YHB has to go and flip the disc. I don’t remember eight-tracks very well, but of course cassettes played for 45…
Top Five Musical Heroes Before I begin: Your Humble Blogger will quote from a Tohu Bohu note:Your Humble Blogger uses the term ‘hero’ for a bunch of people who are really really good at what they do, who in some…
Top Five Albums You Must Hear From Start to Finish Before I begin: I assume that this is specifically those albums which work best as albums. Those albums which derive power from their construction, and work best if you listen…
Top Five Artists You Think More People Should Listen To Before I begin: I used to collar people and demand that they listen to some particular track. It wasn’t generally successful. I did manage to ‘give’ a musician to a…
Top Five Live Musical Experiences Before I begin: I am not counting experiences I actually participated in, which for Your Humble Blogger would date back to high school. Well, or singing to my Perfect Non-Reader. That sort of thing. Not…
Top Five Lyrics that Move Your Heart Before I begin: This one was difficult even to decide what the criteria are. The big problem is that (as with all Top Fives in whatever fields) so much of my attachment to…