121 posts tagged “music”

Towards something more seasonal.

It took:

30000 plus lights
130 extension cords
Over 8000 feet of control cable
Programming time: don't ask.

Most of the neighborhood used LED lights this year, so they are using 1/10th of the power as last year.

What do you get when you mix a Christmas Light show with Guitar Hero? Christmas Light Hero!

Song is "Cliffs of Dover" by the incredible Eric Johnson.

Have a Merry Christmas.

iTunes crashed one too many times.  I uninstalled the bugger - someone had suggested it could be a corrupt dll file - so I deleted every single thing on my external drive, and reinstalled iTunes.  This is the last time, though.  I will just have to find something else to play music with, if it once more loses all my data.

Still, having no ratings any more, and playing stuff at random, does remind me that I have some good music on that there drive.

Perfect 10

The Beautiful South

Listening to the lyrics of Perfect 10, I am surprised it achieved a UK release at all!  Suggestive much?  A sample:

If he's extra large well I'm in charge

I can work this thing on top

If he's XXL well what the hell

Every penny don't fit the slot

California Dreaming 2004 (Remix)

Benny Benassi

s this a wonderful remix of a classic song, or an abomination that should never be played?  I like it, but I know it is not everyone's cup of tea.  But Benny's pounding drum beats complement the vocals very well.

Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now

The Smiths

Don't know why this comes with attached motorbike! 

I hate this record.  I hate The Smiths.  But I still have fond memories of it.  .LSD is involved, and some pretty rampant sex.  And being young and at Glastonbury.  All of which can colour one's perception of a tune.

So, how was your Monday?

Stolen from Ginger_sister, who got it from someone on Facebook

Rules:
a) Go to your Itunes music library
b) Turn your shuffle on
c) list the first line of the first 20 songs
d) See if any in your 'hood can identify the artist and song, without Googling them

Answers in the comments box, and please - do this yourself - I tell you, it is a good way to listen to stuff you might not have heard for quite a while!

Now, as promised, With Added Music!

And, finally, with answers.

It's the loneliness, that's the killer

Killer

ATB

When morning comes to Morgantown the merchants roll their awnings down

Morning Morgantown

Joni Mitchell

Poison like the air we breath this complicated world we weave

Maybe Today

Anastacia

When I wake up early in the morning, lift my head, I'm only dreaming

I'm Only Sleeping

The Vines cover of a Lennon song

 The cup that caught your blood was stained, destroyed, taken away, away

The Holy Blood & The Holy Grail

Mansun

Driving out through the windmills, and some of them were still

Lay Me Down

Crosby, Stills & Nash (no, no Young!)

Three months in here, can't catch the tears

Blindfold

Morcheeba

Turn the ugly light off, God, wanna feel the night

Flower

Eels

Can you keep it down?  Can you keep it down?

Keep It Down

Greenskeeper

We've been a rocking all over the world

In Beat

Fuzzy Hair & Steve Angello

What did you learn in school today?  Jack shit.

Jack Shit George

Ian Dury & The Blockheads

One Two Three Four, let me hear you scream if you want some more

Perfect (Exceeder)

Mason & Princess Superstar

Them that's got shall get, them that's not shall lose

The Child (aka God Bless the Chile)

Alex Gopher

I see my reflection, I don't like what I see

Safe from Harm

Narcotic Thrust

If it's a bad day, you try to suffocate another memory.  Scarred.

You Don't Care About Us

Placebo

You must be my lucky star because you shine on me wherever you are

Lucky Star

Madonna

It's going down, yo the girl got a gun, best run

Big Gun (Tank Girl OST)

Ice T

(ohh sha la la la) Tedium is overcome from obscurity, through melody

Karaoke Queen

Catatonia

Every time you touch her sets your hand on fire

Down to the Wire

Neil Young

Ooh, right through my head, I ain't got the blues no more, I said

The Blue Song

Mint Royale

I cheated a bit - I mean, if a song is called Flaunt it, and the mix that comes up just has the words Flaunt it, I suspect you would guess!  And I didn't bother saying how many spoken word or instrumentals came up, either, cos I could not make the list work if I did that.

When I was 8, I first read "Who Goes There"  by John W Campbell. It was my introduction to Science Fiction and helped make me the nerdy geek I can so easily be. 

When John Carpenter made "The Thing" in 1982, it became one of my all-time favourite movies.

Now, via Gorilla Mask, comes this neat, well done pastiche, featuring the music of Zombie Zombie (Driving This Road Unto Death).

Now, back story given, sit back and enjoy a chunk of awesomeness.