Archive for the 'music' Category
Signs Winter Break Is Way Too Damned Long
Posted on January 2, 2010 by andrew- Filed Under music, video games | Leave a Comment
1) I just made the top 500 (#408) scores in one of the Batman: Arkham Asylum combat challenges. That’s the top 500 out of all XBox 360 players of the game, everywhere. It’s a fun game, but spending enough time playing it over the past three weeks to get better at it then all but [...]
Things That Annoy Me To Distraction While I’m Trying To Get Work Done
Posted on November 20, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Media, books, music, the internets | Leave a Comment
1) Terrible analogies which undermine otherwise valid points
I’m reading the chapter entitled “Realising the Democratic Potential of the Internet” from Coleman and Blumler’s The Internet and Democratic Citizenship. They describe a feature on the White House’s website which allows the user to “Send a message to the President,” and explain that it doesn’t lead to [...]
Pearl Jam Is Confused By The Intertubes
Posted on August 3, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Pearl Jam, music, the internets | Leave a Comment
I find this interesting for two reasons:
1) I’m one of those people who misses album art and liner notes in this otherwise wonderful digital age, and Tom Tomorrow’s art for the album is pretty cool.
2) “Find images from the album that have been scattered across the Net, and win a free downloadable mp3 of a [...]
The Biggest Wagon Is The Empty Wagon Is The Noisiest -or- Steve Is Wrong About Subjective Song Preferences
Posted on June 30, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under R.E.M., music | 4 Comments
Steve has posted a list of his favorite R.E.M. songs. Or, more accurately, the following:
I thought I’d share my personal R.E.M. “Best of” list. It consists of nothing more than a list of the songs that I thought I would enjoy listening to if they came up as I played through this list on [...]
All Evidence Has Been Buried All Tapes Have Been Erased But Your Footsteps Give You Away So You’re Backtracking
Posted on April 23, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Radiohead, music, torture | Leave a Comment
Every American should have to look at every one of these pictures and consider precisely what was done in our name. A huge thank you to the ACLU for fighting to get this stuff into the hands of the public.
…In other news, I find it funny that Radiohead’s Hail to the Thief has been playing [...]
Very Quick Review: Franz Ferdinand
Posted on January 28, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Animal Collective, Franz Ferdinand, music | Leave a Comment
I keep seeing reviews of the new Franz Ferdinand album in which the reviewer suggests that fans of the band’s first two albums might not like this new one, because it’s a bit of a departure. Allow me to say that this criticism makes no sense. The new album fits in perfectly with the old [...]
Finally, A Year-End Music Wrap-Up Is Actually Useful
Posted on December 19, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under MIA, music | Leave a Comment
Paper Planes, possibly my favorite song of the year (and I loved it several months before it showed up on the soundtrack to a Seth Rogan movie and became the hot single of the moment, dammit), was sampled from a Clash song! Who knew?!?
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“We Are The World” Pales In Comparison
Posted on November 26, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under A Colbert Christmas, music | Leave a Comment
The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
A Colbert Christmas: Peace, Love and Understanding
Colbert at Christmas
Colbert Christmas DVD
Green Screen
Bill O’Reilly Interview
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Jimi Hendrix Lives
Posted on November 23, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Guitar Hero, Jimi Hendrix, music, video games | 1 Comment
So I’m sitting here playing some Guitar Hero World Tour
and all of the sudden an animated Jimi Hendrix pops up on stage to play with me. Did no one think that reanimating dead rock stars, as opposed to simply using their music and showing the game’s other characters playing it, might be a little creepy? [...]
The Most Awesome Thing I’ve Read On Wikipedia Today
Posted on November 17, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Korn, music, the internets | Leave a Comment
From the Korn page:
The band’s catalogue consists of nine consecutive debuts in the top ten of the Billboard 200,[2] including a compilation album, Greatest Hits Vol.1, and their untitled eighth album, released on July 31, 2007. To date, Korn has sold over 30 million albums worldwide, including 16.5 in the U.S.,[3] while earning six Grammy [...]
Apple May Need To Go Back To Work On This One
Posted on September 13, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under iTunes, music, video games | Leave a Comment
I was playing around with Apple’s newly unveiled “Genius” recommendations and pulled up the list for “Anarchy in the U.K.”
The results are a near-perfect track listing for Guitar Hero III, excluding only the songs from the game I already own.
There may be a few bugs in the algorithm.
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Random Thought At 12am
Posted on September 7, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Automatic for the People, R.E.M., meta, music | Leave a Comment
I like how, even after 17 years of listening to the album, I always forget that there’s another track on Automatic for the People after “Nightswimming”- and it’s an even better track, “Find the River”! It’s like an awesome surprise at the end of every listen (probably brought on by “Nightswimming” seeming to be an [...]
Because If There’s One Thing I Love, It’s The Beach
Posted on August 28, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 Democratic convention, 2008 elections, John Kerry, Liz Phair, meta, music | 3 Comments
I’m going out of town tomorrow morning. I’ll be back on Tuesday, but then I’ll be away again next weekend. Don’t expect me to have much time to say anything about the Republican’s convention, as I won’t really be around. Worse yet, don’t expect me to say much about Obama’s big speech tonight, as I’m [...]
Random Outrage At 2:30am
Posted on August 3, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Len Bias, University of Maryland, basketball, music | 1 Comment
Looking at the Black Cat schedule to see if anything cool is upcoming, I see a local band calling itself “Len Bias“. I’m not sure why this should offend me so, but it does. I guess because if they ever made any money they’d be cashing in on his name.
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How Did I Miss This?
Posted on July 29, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Elvis Costello, music | Leave a Comment
Elvis Costello and the Imposters released an album in May. It features collaborations with Jenny Lewis, who I absolutely love. The critical response suggests it is a healthy addition to Elvis’s catalog of later rock albums, “much in the vein of his relative comeback album When I Was Cruel and at times even Blood and [...]
Really Pathetic Question
Posted on July 21, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under music | 6 Comments
Allow me to preface this with an acknowledgment that the following renders me roughly as out-of-touch as a Republican presidential nominee.
So, umm, can anyone suggest some music blogs I might enjoy? It occurs to me I no longer listen to the radio in any capacity whatsoever. I subscribe to a small number of podcasts, but [...]
Yet Another Reason I Wish I Hadn’t Fried My MacBook Six Weeks Ago
Posted on July 21, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 9:30 Club, Liz Phair, music | Leave a Comment
C’mon, 9:30 Club, you already know I’m paying whatever you ask, so go ahead and put the tickets on sale, already.
Topic For Discussion
Posted on June 23, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Entertainment Weekly, music | 1 Comment
EW’s list of “The 100 best albums from 1983 to 2008″ is the worst music-based list of “The [X] best [whatever] from [given time period]” ever produced. Agree or disagree1?
Keep in mind that a Green Day album is #6 while Nevermind is completely omitted. Oh, also (and clearly I’m focusing on the music I know [...]
R.E.M. Still Rocks
Posted on June 12, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under R.E.M., music | 1 Comment
I saw R.E.M. at Merriweather last night. I was shocked by how much of their older songs they played and by how good the band and especially Michael Stipe sounded and looked. Stipe was very much his classic self, having a wonderful time dancing goofily around the stage and saying funny Stipe-y things to the [...]
I Would Have Been Curious To Hear Some Lines To The Tune Of “Private Idaho”
Posted on June 3, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under B-52s, Scott McClellan, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washingt, books, music | Leave a Comment
Fred Schneider of the B-52s read Scott McClellan’s book to the tune of Love Shack last night. It was awesome.
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