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Hi-Fi Friday: January 20, 2017

I picked the theme for this month: 80’s songs that make you cringe. And Blobby‘s correct: I did select the theme and emailed it to him while inebriated gambrinous on the streets of New Orleans. It’s what popped into my head first, so I ran with it. Unlike other things I’d like to have been popping in my head while in NOLA.

And Blobby seems to be picking songs I like. Hmm…


I don’t know what it is exactly about this song that makes me cringe, but it does. Maybe it’s the synth. There’s a lot of songs with synth that don’t bother me through. Maybe it’s the weird echo singing. There’s a lot of songs with that too that don’t bother me. Maybe it’s just me, judging by the comments on my last few of these…

I give you Animotion’s 1985 song “Obsession”:

And did everyone in the 80s dance like that?

Until next time...
Erik

Hi-Fi Friday: January 13, 2017

I picked the theme for this month: 80’s songs that make you cringe. And Blobby‘s correct: I did select the theme and emailed it to him while inebriated gambrinous on the streets of New Orleans. It’s what popped into my head first, so I ran with it. Unlike other things I’d like to have been popping in my head while in NOLA.


I was just going to list this person’s discography, but I guess I just need to post one song. Her voice = nails on a chalkboard. Actually, I’d rather listen to Yoko Ono on a drunk bender attempting to cover Beatles songs than listen to Kate Bush sing anything. And then this one song, which SiriusXM’s 1st Wave likes to play just makes me cringe. Her voice, and those horns.

I give you Kate Bush’s 1985 “Running Up That Hill”. *shudder*

Until next time...
Erik

Hi-Fi Friday: January 6, 2017

I picked the theme for this month: 80’s songs that make you cringe. And Blobby is correct: I did select the theme and emailed it to him while inebriated gambrinous on the streets of New Orleans. It’s what popped into my head first, so I ran with it. Unlike other things I’d like to have been popping in my head while in NOLA.


I LOATHE this song. This will be on repeat in my own personal Hell. And it’s the synth-horns section that kills it for me. It could have been a good song, perhaps. But that one bit of the song over and over is worse than nails on a chalkboard for me. Something about it is just out of sync with the rest of the song to my ear. I PHYSICALLY cringe any time it comes on SiriusXM’s 1st Wave, especially if I can’t change the channel. Like when I’m at the studio mid-tattoo.

I give you Human League’s “(Keep Feeling) Fascination”… *shudder*

Until next time...
Erik

Hi-Fi Friday: December 2, 2016

Blobby‘s month to pick the theme. And we’re going with live music. I guess as opposed to dead music, although I’m not sure that’s a thing.


And one song popped into my head first, so that’s what you’re getting.

Hootie & the Blowfish’s 1995 live cover of Stephen Stills’ 1970 song “Love the One You’re With”. And a few other songs mixed in with it. This is one of those medleys that has just stuck with me for the last 20 years. Damn. 20 years.

Until next time...
Erik

A Very Late Hi-Fi Friday: November 25, 2016

My turn to pick the theme this month with Blobby, and I finally went with songs about a particular city. It could be any city, but the song should be in some way about that city.

Which sounds really lame now that I have time to sit and think about it. But in for a penny, in for a pound.


I’m sorry this one is late. That whole upgrading my website thing.

While this one is not about a named particular city, it could be any city. This song holds a really weird place in my heart. Not for the song, but from a memory that’s evoked when I hear it. A very happy memory. So I’m using it this week.

I give you “Downtown”, by the one and only Petula Clark:

Until next time...
Erik

Hi-Fi Friday: November 18, 2016

My turn to pick the theme this month with Blobby, and I finally went with songs about a particular city. It could be any city, but the song should be in some way about that city.

Which sounds really lame now that I have time to sit and think about it. But in for a penny, in for a pound.


Blobby seems to have gone all European Vacation so far with this month, while I’m still here Stateside… at the moment.

And back again with New Orleans. Maybe bits of me really are there all the time. I know I’ve left some of me there.

I give you The Animal’s 1964 version of “The House of the Rising Sun”:

The songs is thought to be from at least the early 1900s, but the earliest known recording of this song is from 1933, by Tom Clarence Ashley and Gwen Foster:

Definitely a difference between the two.

Until next time...
Erik