Category: Music

Pretty much all of the songs that I thought anybody might possibly guess were guessed, so I might as well reveal the answers. If you’d still like to try your hand, don’t click through to the rest of this post until after you’ve finished… Those of you who have given up can find the full… Continue reading Impossible Lyrics Answer

Until I get around to making an iTunes run, I’m listening to the four-and-five-star playlist, which is much better fodder for the “Random Ten” thing than a bunch of filler tracks off really recent albums. We’ll do this in guess-the-lyrics fashion because, well, because I can. Despite the title, there are some absolute meatball songs… Continue reading Impossible Guess-the-Lyrics Game

I usually listen to music on the computer using the “Party Shuffle” feature of iTunes on a playlist consisting of recently acquired music. It gives me a chance to get a good feel for new albums, and then when I’m at work or on the road, I listen to the four-and-five-star playlist. I haven’t bought… Continue reading Help Me Spend Money

Whenever I post about the music I listen to, I get a comment or two from people commenting that they’ve never heard of any of the bands I talk about. This is always a little surprising to me, because I don’t think I’m all that much of a High Fidelity type. As proof, let me… Continue reading Really Obscure Bands

There’s a concert on campus this evening by Third Eye Blind, best known for the doo-doo-doo chorus of “Semi-Charmed Life” from about ten years ago. I wasn’t aware that they were still together, but they’re apparently here, and playing a show on the court where we usually play our pick-up basketball games. When I was… Continue reading Car Radio Bands

Let me be the millionth person to link to the Washington Post article about the busking virtuoso. Let me also agree with Kevin Drum about the reasons nobody listened: Plus, of course, IT WAS A METRO STATION. People needed to get to work on time so their bosses wouldn’t yell at them. Weingarten mentions this,… Continue reading Timing Is Everything

It’s Friday, and the new academic term starts on Monday (I’ll be teaching at 8am– shoot me now), so it seems like a good time to try to forget about our troubles with pop music: The Onion’s AV Club has a list of great story songs, topped by “A Boy Named Sue.” I was amazed… Continue reading Pop Music Friday

Over at Kurt’s Krap, there’s extensive discussion of the relative merits of Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth as the front man for Van Halen. You can also find them discussing a bunch of other songs, but the Hagar/Roth question is the important one. By a weird coincidence, I read Chuck Klosterman’s Fargo Rock City… Continue reading Crucial Questions of My High School Years

Light blogging today, because I’m having muscle spasms in my neck and shoulder again. Blogrolling and typing aggravate that, so there will be minimal posting for the rest of the weekend. To fill a bit of space, though, here’s a call for music recommendations: I bought a whole slew of Crowded House/ Finn Brothers stuff… Continue reading Pimp Me Pop Music