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Music Monday – “I need to be myself/I can’t be someone else/I’m feeling supersonic/Give me gin and tonic/You could have it all/But how much do you want it?”

Yet another example of the “slow an up-tempo song down to make it new” music trick – this time, by Noel Gallagher on his current tour with his new band, The High Flying Birds:

Posted 11 June 2012 § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “6am/Day after Christmas/The smell of cold/Car seat is freezing/The world is sleeping/I am numb”

One of the saddest songs I know…

Posted 04 June 2012 § MemoryLane § Sad § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “I still look for you in crowds/In train stations and bus stops, on sidewalks/In the middle of the night”

As the person who uploaded this video observes, it’s amazing how Fred Eaglesmith can go from hilarious to heart-ripping in a second.  This is one of my favourite songs of his…

Posted 28 May 2012 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “I want to help you lift enormous things/A pinch, a sting/I don’t feel a thing/And as the Earth revolved around the sun”

New Tragically Hip single! And as a Hockey Night in Canada Intro:

Posted 21 May 2012 § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “Thought you’d do right by me/But who am I kidding/You’re the Sask Party/Shows like Corner Gas/I guess you don’t remember.”

I went to the massive rally by the Saskatchewan film industry at noon today and it was quite the spectacle. In Saskatchewan, when we have protests, it tends to be farmers rolling their tractors up to the Legislature that creates a big scene. But the film community, as you might expect given their skills, put […]

Posted 14 May 2012 § Humour § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Your mom busted in and said, “What’s that noise?”/Aw, mom you’re just jealous it’s the Beastie Boys!”

It’s a pretty well-known trick for making a successful cover version – take an up-tempo song and slow it down. Still, Coldplay makes the old trick work by taking the Beastie Boys’ first and arguably best-known hit, the party anthem “Fight For Your Right (To Party)” and slowing it down to a near funeral dirge […]

Posted 07 May 2012 § MemoryLane § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “I’m a Pilsner drinking, whitetail hunting, purple burning, stubble jumping, slough bogging, prairie dogging, rod and reeling, snowmobiling, genuine big ski sun of a gun from Saskatchewan.”

I knew of Tim Hus before but discovered this song due to the magic of Rdio.  Not too often I hear my hometown name-checked in a song!  (“Moose Jaw and Indian Head/It ain’t as flat as everyone says”

Posted 23 April 2012 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Rdio

Like I suspect is the case for a lot of people who came of age in the 1980’s, I would spend hours making mix tapes when I was young – tapes featuring different artists, different themes, different moods. At the time, mix tapes were created by dubbing favourite songs from your own small cassette collection, borrowing […]

Posted 20 April 2012 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “Staring out of the window as the clouds roll in/Distant rumbling of a storm about to begin”

On the recommendation of a co-worker, someone who’s big in Australia but hasn’t hit in North America yet. A perfect tune for a drizzly day in the Queen City…

Posted 16 April 2012 § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Nothing to kill or die for/And no religion too.”

Being in the US, especially on a major religious holiday, is always eye-opening to me as an atheist. For example, this chart ran with a newspaper story whose title and anecdotal themes suggested people were coming back to faith but which the hard evidence clearly suggests otherwise… I will concede that religion and religious pressure […]

Posted 09 April 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § Politics § Video ‡ Comments (0) °