Category Archives: music

What Sarah Said – Death Cab for Cutie.

I discovered Death Cab for Cutie this year. I grew to like this song long before it became very relevant. It’s very good. The animation, below, is evocative but read the lyrics while listening. “What Sarah Said” And it came … Continue reading

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Florence and the Machine and Billy Bragg – Fairytale Of New York – Live in Session

Courageous and good.

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the xx, teardrops

What a great cover.

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Musician’s open letter, sung to Lily Allen

Brilliant! From http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/26/musicians-open-lette.html

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Jeff Beck Live at Ronnie Scotts.

I bought this recently. I’m not keen on “…best in the world…” accolades. But on this one, I’ve decided, he is. Witness….

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The world’s biggest record collection.

A lovely, sad, poignant video about Paul Mawhinney, the owner of the world’s biggest record collection. Over a million albums and over one and a half million singles. Respect.

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Profoundly shallow.

This is the kind of, well, jolly good stuff you’d expect from Jarvis Cocker. I never said I was deep, but I am profoundly shallow My lack of knowledge is vast, and my horizons are narrow

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Your musical taste description thing…

It’s kind of an over-simplistic and dopey question to ask, but when people ask you what kind of music do you like, what do you say? “Eh, rock.” Or perhaps, “blues”. Or maybe, “Anthing except bad country and post-70′s disco”. … Continue reading

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Speaking of funk….the master.

Speaking of funk, pray silence for Johnny “Guitar” Watson, A Real Mother For Ya. Fuking smokin’!

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Brother Louie – Hot Chocolate.

Man, I love this song. So funky. Nobody says “funky” anymore! Why’s that?

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