Posts Tagged ‘Music
My iTunes Library
Prompted by Eugenia’s post about her iTunes library, I decided to post a glimpse of my own library. My library is still awaiting a massive import of my CDs, which will add several thousand songs. Here are the vitals:
5406 tracks, 29.18 GB on disk, 17 days
Only 2699 have something in the “play count” field. [...]
Nothing Is Permanently Retired
At about one minute fifty-five seconds and without any jam, a fairly faithful replication of an album version of a song shouldn’t be a setlist standout. But, by many accounts, the 12/31/09 offering of “Demand” is a notable and curious point in a long setlist. It’s notable not because it was flawlessly performed [...]
Phish Wishlist
Given the recent setlist madness, I decided to compile my Phish Wishlist. Here are the 13 songs I most want to hear played live, in no particular order:
Destiny Unbound (36)
Camel Walk (50)
Brother (17)
Scents and Subtle Sounds (7)
A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing (11)
Dinner and a Movie (10)
Glide (8)
Harpua (23)
Spock’s Brain (64)
Have Mercy (141)
Walk Away [...]
Making the Case: Time Turns Elastic
Trey Anastasio’s masterpiece “Time Turns Elastic” was written for an orchestra.
That’s what they tell us, at least. It was performed with the New York Philharmonic in September of 2009. A video surfaced, Trey playing TTE alone, acoustically. And then there’s the Fenway debut.
Somehow, we find ourselves here in November, a few short [...]
Festival 8
It’s impossible to sum up all of my thoughts and feelings about Festival 8 in a way that would do any justice to my memory of it. I know that to be true, but I’m going to try anyway, because it seems foolish to let this high fade over time, and I want to [...]
Concert Review: The Decemberists 09/30/09
On Wednesday night, Jenn and I went with an old college friend of mine to see The Decemberists, who are touring in support of their “Hazards of Love” album. As expected, the concert did not disappoint.
The first set, as it has been nearly the entire tour, was the Hazards of Love rock [...]
Michael Jackson: An Audio Blog Experiment
The Decemberists’ “The Hazards of Love”: An Interpretation
The new Decemberists album was loosed last Tuesday, March 24, and has been met with enthusiasm almost universally. I purchase only a few discs a year these days, preferring to spend the majority of my music dollars online. This disc, I knew in advance, would be one of my purchases.
Upon purchase, I quickly came to [...]
Check This Out: Sense Field’s Building
The word “Emo” has been overused for many years now, and , in fact, in many circles, has become a pejorative term for a goth-lite teenager with eyeliner, or some equally unattractive image. Long ago, in the mid 1990s, it emerged as shorthand for “emotional hardcore.” When the term “emo” was first coined, this type [...]
Check This Out: Something Corporate’s Leaving Through the Window
In the early 00’s, there was a flood of what I call “new punk” or “candy punk” on the music scene, fronted by several bands, some of which I really liked. Yellowcard, New Found Glory, and many others were amongst the successful, and they brought a combination of punk, rock, and run-of-the-mill pop music [...]
