Category: MusicMonday

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

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

Music Monday – “So we’ll march day and night/By the big cooling tower/They have the plant/But we have the power”

RPL had a successful strike vote tonight which means this is my theme song for the foreseeable future…

Music Monday – “We are old/And our son took the dog away/And fair enough/Because we are tired all the time.”

I awoke to this song on community radio this morning. The fact that it infiltrated a dream I was having where a librarian colleague of mine (who is

Music Monday – “I’m so sick of your management/I’m so sick of all of this/I’m so sick of your bullshit.”

Toronto Public Library has gone on strike so I’ll send this song out to my former classmates, colleagues and others who are walking the picket line. Here’s hoping

Music Monday – “What it take to make you people dance?”

The “walking down the street, dancing” theme is a popular one for music videos, from REM to Hawksley Workman to the classic of the genre from The Verve.

Music Monday – How Could I Ever Forget the Happiest Day of My Life?

Well, other than wishing you a Happy Anniversary on Saturday. 😉 But when you have three anniversary dates to keep track of, that’s to be expected. In fact,

Music Monday – “And then we’ll be married/Then we’ll be man and wife/No dress rehearsal/This is our life.”

Have I posted this before? I feel like I have but I spent some time this weekend importing old Tragically Hip bootlegs into iTunes and it reminded me

Music Monday – Whitney Houston

I wasn’t her biggest fan but, as someone says in the MetaFilter obituary thread, her music was the soundtrack for many a high school dance. Her talent and

Music Monday – “I have felt some hard times/In my life/But I don’t want/To feel it anymore.”

I don’t watch David Letterman too often but happened to catch Paul McCartney’s son making his US network TV debut the other night and was impressed by this

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