Six Top Fives coming up
A while ago, Amanda Marcotte, the ultimate maximum over at Pandagon, wrote a response to a music meme which led me to spend way too much time thinking about my answers. And, since I really am a verbose and prolix…
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A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I got a gal at the 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Well, and after talking about Your Hit Parade and great or lousy songs, it occurred to YHB that one distinction some would make (and I failed to) is between melodic and lyric stupidity. When I presented my case that there…
Your Hit Parade
Your Humble Blogger happened to be listening to All Things Considered t’other day, and I heard a twelve-minute piece by John McDonough called “A Look Back at ‘Your Hit Parade’”. The piece focused on what killed the show, rather than…
Puff Piece: Bobby Short
So, Bobby Short died the other day. This is, in its way, bad news; I never met him or heard him, and it appears that my library contains all of three of his songs, but I appreciate his stuff. In…
iMeme
OK, because this Tohu Bohu was getting lonely, but Your Humble Blogger hasn’t the mental capacity at the moment to write an actual note: The latest iTunes meme! (Ooh, I’m using meme that way again. Ooh!) How many songs? Oddly…
we-Tunes
Well, and Francis points out the unfortunate prevalence of inappropriate wedding music. His solution is to hold tight to the wedding list. Sadly, this is not really sufficient, or wasn’t in the case of Your Humble Blogger and his Best…
Early, Late, what’s the difference
Your Humble Blogger is not very knowledgeable about music. Considering how much time I spend listening, and how high a priority it is for me to listen to music I like, I hardly ever talk about music. That’s a shame,…
Harsh, but fair?
Your Humble Blogger has often complained about reviews that are more about the wit of the reviewer than about the thing being reviewed. It’s the curse of Dorothy Parker; her stuff is clearly about her, but then she is actually…
Little Don Juan in a bone-white mug
It probably isn’t worth getting in to the whole story of how I came across it, but for any Gentle Reader familiar with the ballad of John Barleycorn, there is a rather entertaining ballad of Juan Coffeebean (There were three…
Pure Pop for Now People
Is it a good day for song memes when Your Humble Blogger attacks two of them, or a bad one? This is from the inimitable John Scalzi, who asks whether the three-minute songs in our collections are perfect pop songs….