Exactly. Hm. I wonder if youtube can hook me up...
Flames wouldn't be eternal if they actually consumed anything.
Lilah ,'Not Fade Away'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
beekaytee - Dec 29, 2006 6:02:21 pm PST #4716 of 10003
Compassionately intolerant
Sean K - Dec 30, 2006 10:22:19 am PST #4717 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Johnny Cash's version of Hurt makes Trent Reznor sound like he was singing about happiness and puppy dogs and sunshine and rainbows.
shrift - Dec 31, 2006 2:08:11 pm PST #4718 of 10003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
My roommate is scrambling for food-or-state-related music for her annual NYE party: [link]
If anyone is around and feels like helping.
DXMachina - Jan 01, 2007 6:08:14 am PST #4719 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Interesting article on why the brain holds onto music so well. [link]
For his first experiment he came up with an elegant concept: He stopped people on the street and asked them to sing, entirely from memory, one of their favorite hit songs. The results were astonishingly accurate. Most people could hit the tempo of the original song within a four-percent margin of error, and two-thirds sang within a semitone of the original pitch, a level of accuracy that wouldn’t embarrass a pro.
"When you played the recording of them singing alongside the actual recording of the original song, it sounded like they were singing along," Dr. Levitin said.
Theodosia - Jan 01, 2007 6:17:04 am PST #4720 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Cool... but note that the participation was voluntary in that study -- all the people who would run away if you asked them to sing presumably ran away.
tommyrot - Jan 01, 2007 6:40:15 am PST #4721 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Interesting article. Actually, I've read a number of articles on the subject in the last year or so....
A friend of mine (who is some sort of mathematical/chess genius) could play any pop song on the piano, even if he'd only heard it once. And even if that was years ago. Sadly, he was schizophrenic, and at one point went from college calculus professor to grocery store bag boy....
Jon B. - Jan 01, 2007 10:15:48 am PST #4722 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I seem to have been nominated for Best DJ in "The Noise Poll", conducted by a long-running Boston music zine. You can vote for me here. Go ahead... stuff the ballot box... I won't mind.
tina f. - Jan 01, 2007 10:25:57 am PST #4723 of 10003
I voted!
Very cool, Jon. One of my x-mas presents to myself was to get the poster you bought for me framed. It looks soooo great!
Hope all the musicistas had a great holiday. I had a very restful stay in KS. Got to sit in a combine and watch the sunset over empty peaceful farm fields. Much needed.
tommyrot - Jan 03, 2007 5:55:09 pm PST #4724 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
From the WFMU blog:
Ever wonder what a grown man playing four homemade Pikachu theremins would sound like? Yeah, me too.
Direct link to the Pikaremin video: [link]
Connie Neil - Jan 04, 2007 11:07:53 am PST #4725 of 10003
brillig
I don't know if this should go in Music or Tech, but are the songs from iTunes playable in anything other than Apple format stuff?