5 posts tagged “music”
Some Wham trivia:
I still have the 7" single of the original song from when I bought it with my allowance in 1984, and I could've sworn, until exactly 30 seconds ago, that "Careless Whisper" was a Wham! song--because that's what it says on the single. Apparently this is only true for the U.S. packaging, as it was released as George Michael solo originally.
What, to you, is the first sign of spring? Have you seen it yet?
Submitted by Spy.
Well, since I live in Chicago, where the weather is hardly different until at least April, I'd say it would have to be that bands start touring again. In fact, I'm going to see a show tonight--updates later!
The update: Kelly Shafer, a fine musician in his own right, texted me about some band called Porsches on the Autobahn, and they were going to be in Chicago on Friday, and I should check it out. Now, Kelly has done this a few times before with bands, and I have learned to trust his instincts. So, sight unseen and sound unheard, I rounded up a couple of friends and went to Elbo Room.
Disclaimers:
1. They weren't doing a very good job of pretending to be German.
2. They weren't doing a very good job of pretending to be playing live.
They were, however, VERY entertaining and a lot of fun. If you can get past the above items, I highly recommend them. We had a great time and laughed a lot and my friend even got up onstage with them and danced!
I just finished listening to approx. 480 songs. It took me many hours over the last few days to import, sort, tag, listen, and chose 256 finalists for entry into my djing collection.
I'm surprised there were that many, actually. To be honest, though, probably over half of them will never even get played, not because they aren't good, but because I just may never do "that" set.
Last week, I added almost 400 songs to the collection. Now, how the hell am I gonna remember what is what??
After all of this, however, I have some observations:
-Oomph! is virtually unable to write a shitty song. It amazes me.
-The new Alter Ego stuff is sort of "meh". :-/
-I am unable to fathom how people really enjoy listening to an entire Die Form album.
-KMFDM has been writing the same song over and over for like 20 years.
-Lützenkirchen is really good [expect another post on that down the line].
-Apoptygma Berzerk really needs to just stop. Like, NOW. *poop*
-I suspect that people who like XPQ-21 will not, in fact, like their new single. I'll investigate this theory later.
-I could do a really awesome laid back, loungy set, if ever the opportunity arose.
-It's a wonder that Seabound isn't far more popular. I don't understand this, really.
-Maps and Diagrams is perfect music to study physics to.
-Apologetix's Christmas parody album is the funniest Christmas album ever. EVER.
It's hard to go wrong with a band that consists of Dirk Ivans [Klinik] and Eric Van Wonterghem [Monolith]. What you get is clean, modern industrial that does not sound like someone took a house track and just ran it throught some distortion.
I usually find that while I like power noise, I can't really figure out how to dance to it, and much of it is too repetitive to keep my attention. I have been listening to this a lot lately, and it's not getting old yet. :)
I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH!! *bounces up and down*
