If you ever wondered how Johnny Cash might’ve interpreted The Who’s “Pinball Wizard,” wonder no more. Bill Kerchin does “Pinball Wizard” in the style of Cash’s “Folson Prison Blues,” and it is marvelous. Besides being weird, of course. 😉
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On a Recent Musical Mood
For some reason, I’ve been in an Oasis mood this week. Don’t ask me why — my moods are as strange as they are inexplicable. But yeah, I’ve had Liam Gallagher’s snarling voice rattling around between my ears this week. Some random observations. I’m not at all gripped by Definitely Maybe. It’s an okay album.Continue reading “On a Recent Musical Mood”
On the Songs of My Life
I did this about a year and a half ago — describe my life in terms of song titles. Feeling a little bored today and, honestly, a lot uninspired, I thought I’d revisit that. 🙂 Choose a band/artist and answer only in titles of their songs:We’ll go with one of my favorite bands — CarbonContinue reading “On the Songs of My Life”
On Being a Band
Okay, no frelling clue how I got this… What band are you? Led Zeppelin The father of Hard Rock Click Here to Take This Quiz Quizzes and Personality Tests Yeah, no idea. Don’t misunderstand. I like Led Zeppelin. I’ll listen to their music. But, yeah. Yeah.
On “Dylan Hears a Who”
Alas! The wonderful website for Dylan Hears a Who — the concept album of Bob Dylan (or a reasonable fascimile thereof) interpreting Dr. Seuss favorites — is no more. The Ted Geisel estate, it turns out, wasn’t amused. I have mine. I have the mp3s. I have the cover art, front and back. I’ll listenContinue reading “On “Dylan Hears a Who””
On Beating the Heat
The temperature hit triple digits today. Triple digits! So I’m listening to Christmas music. I’m thinking snow. I’m thinking winter. Like yesterday. Not quite triple digits. And I wrote an advertising piece on Greatfather Winter and the Feast of Winter Veil. Thinking winter, it made me feel cooler. Nothing says cool temperatures like Fleming &Continue reading “On Beating the Heat”
On Snow Patrol's "Signal Fire"
As I was walking out of the theatre Saturday from seeing Spider-Man 3, I caught a few bars of the song that played across the film’s closing credits. I said to my sister, “Is that Snow Patrol? It sounds like Snow Patrol.” “I like it,” she said. “I don’t know who it is.” I couldn’tContinue reading “On Snow Patrol's "Signal Fire"”
On Rediscovering Old Friends
I went through a box of CDs the other day, one I hadn’t opened since the move. And in the box… Badfinger CDs! I don’t know the last time I listened to these. Badfinger is one of those bands whose songs, when you hear them on the radio, you know instantly. But they’re a bandContinue reading “On Rediscovering Old Friends”
On WinAmp and Doctor Who Skins
I decided I wanted a Doctor Who WinAmp skin. And why not? I remember discovering WinAmp back in college. It was new at the time, and it seemed like all the cool kids were downloading WinAmp and ripping mp3s in those pre-Napster days. I’m not sure when I outgrew WinAmp–if I’d ever truly grown intoContinue reading “On WinAmp and Doctor Who Skins”
More on a Music Meme
Yes, I did this music meme yesterday. I said, at the time, that I’d gone the easy way out by picking the Beatles. “Do something challening,” a reader wrote in by e-mail. “Blow my mind,” she wrote. Alrighty, then! Learning of Bobby Pickett’s death two days ago reminded me of one of the all-time greatContinue reading “More on a Music Meme”