Oh, David Lee Roth. How I envied you, with your high notes and high kicks and endless supply of leggy, busty sexual partners.
My very favorite thing on the whole internet (statement may be false by the time you read this) is this youtube video of you in “Running with the Devil,” with the vocal track [...]
I was going to do a post about “Revolution 9″ by the Beatles, but 2008 ends in a few hours, and since this waning year is the centenary of French composer Olivier Messiaen I wanted to get this post in under the wire.
I first heard Messiaen’s most famous work, Quatuor pour la fin du temps (in [...]
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A clarinet quartet playing themes from Super Mario Bros.:
A bassoon quartet playing themes from Super Mario World and Super Mario Bros.:
So, there’s this medieval song called “Sumer is icumen in,” which is the oldest existing example of a round (think “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”). Listen to it here. It’s kind of meh; any awesomeness it has comes from its historical value, the fact that one of the lyrics talks about a stag farting, and [...]
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