May
12
2008
7

Tentative Tentacles Are Grabbing Me

I stole this from bstewart23. Because I LOVE IT!!! And I think the world should hear it. (And by world I mean whatever quantity of the world who actually stops by my blog.)

For some odd reason, I just cannot get this song out of my head. (This happens to me on occasion. I have learned to pay attention when it does.) I think this is perhaps the best song on their new album. Maybe their best song ever? (And what exactly does this say about my musical tastes?)

[Doing my best Kermit the Frog impression:]
Without further ado... with some added video enjoyment... VJ Tom Yaz's vision of "Love in the Year 3000" by The B-52s. Yeah!!!....

"Love in the Year 3000" by The B-52s (Funplex, 2008)

Until next time...
Erik

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posted 1467 days ago at 6:40 am in Audiophallic
Apr
09
2008
7

Bad combination

Bad combination: The iPod randomly shuffling to Gustav Holst's "Mars, The Bringer of War" and being stuck behind a farm tractor on the highway during morning rush hour traffic.

In case you don't know what the musical piece sounds like, here it is.



And yes, we have rush hour traffic here in Northwest Arkansas. Apparently children are too good these days to ride the buses, so the parents clog the roads all taking their spoiled brats to school at the same time we are all trying to get to work.

And then for whatever reason, some farm tractor driver decides he just has to get from one town to another on his tractor... at 10 miles per hour!

Until next time...
Erik

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posted 1499 days ago at 6:38 pm in Audiophallic
Mar
03
2008
1

B-52s “Hot Corner” Free MP3 Download Available Now!

This came across my bulletins on myspace tonight:

Rhapsody.com is currently hosting a free MP3 of the B-52s track "Hot Corner" from the upcoming album Funplex.

Go to http://www.rhapsody.com/freeweeklymp3s and download now!

Woo Hoo!!!!! I love me some B-52s!

Aside: I noticed they dropped the apostrophe out of their name—from "the B-52's" to "the B-52s". I wonder what that's about?

Until next time...
Erik

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posted 1536 days ago at 8:57 pm in Audiophallic
Jan
15
2008
0

The Stairs

Being ill makes me ponder things. Not sure why...

Ever since "X" came out in 1990, this song has always bubbled back into my brain over and over.

"The Stairs" by INXS.

Until next time...
Erik

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posted 1584 days ago at 3:57 pm in Audiophallic
Dec
03
2007
1

Shout at the devil and other parental stupidities…

I’m driving home from work today with the iPod plugged into the AUX jack on the truck stereo (at a very high volume, I might add). Somehow I ended up on Mötley Crüe’s “Shout At The Devil”. (Yes… I have very diverse music tastes—most people hate my version of shuffle as it goes from heavy metal to bluegrass to ska, etc.)

For some reason I started thinking about how “back in the day” (i.e., when I was younger) parents, churches and politicians were all freaked out about how this was “the Devil's music” (as was much of the heavy metal music of the time, so “they” said).

Fast forward to today. Pick a song on any radio station (except maybe a Christian music station, but even then I wonder). How exactly is today’s music any different? If anything the meanings are far less hidden in the lyrics. Rarely is there an attempt to hide the meaning of what is being said. Do parents, churches and politicians still find issue with the music of today? Are there still record burnings (well, CD-burnings? or maybe mass iPod burnings since the advent of the mp3…)?

Just something to think about…

Until next time...
Erik

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