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Music Monday – Top 20 Countdowns of the 80’s, 90’s and 00’s

A huge collection of countdown overviews for the last few decades including, for example, the year I graduated high school… (via Reddit)

Posted 15 August 2011 § MemoryLane § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Spring is almost over/And the summer’s come/The day’s are getting long”

I had such an amazing time camping this long weekend at Nickle Lake with Shea’s folks at their seasonal site, I thought I’d do a bulleted list of some of the highlights.  (To set the scene, Shea’s parents have possibly the the nicest site in the entire campground.  They’ve had it for nearly a decade […]

Posted 01 August 2011 § Family § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Music Monday – “We only said goodbye with words/I died a hundred times/You go back to her/And I go back to black.”

Now she’s gone and joined that stupid club. (via MetaFilter)

Posted 25 July 2011 § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Please could you stop the noise, I’m trying to get some rest/From all the unborn chicken voices in my head/What’s that, what’s that?”

Pretty cool story of how this video was made… (via MetaFilter)

Posted 18 July 2011 § PopCulture § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “Sonny carries a load, he is barely a man/There’s not all that much to do, still he does the best he can/And he lives in a room, at the top of the stairs/And the sea keeps on rollin in, it’s done that for years.”

Yet another Newfoundland classic guaranteed to get everybody in the pub singing along…

Posted 11 July 2011 § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

Newfoundland Trip – Music Monday – “To wake in the early morn/To the sound of the old fog horn/And wait for the men to return/With their boats in the bay”

Last Monday, I wrote about the musical cultures of the various provinces.  Now that I’m here in Newfoundland, the musicality of this province is overwhelming.  I couldn’t name a single folk song that unifies the people of Saskatchewan (does “Last Saskatchewan Pirate” count?) whereas I’ve heard the song below probably half a dozen times in […]

Posted 04 July 2011 § MemoryLane § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “But now we’re bound for ol’ St. John’s/Where all the girls are dancing/Heave away, me jolly boys/We’re all bound away!”

Hmm, do other provinces have a distinctive musical sound in the same way that the Maritime provinces do?  In a very stereotypical way, I’d say that the music of Quebec is probably linked by the fact that it’s…sung in French.  For the prairies (well, Alberta at least) I think of traditional country & wesetern music […]

Posted 27 June 2011 § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “So serene/The world turns blue/Heads are spinning/It feels so good”

One of my favourite British bands (I consider them Britpop but not sure everyone defines them that way) does a piss-take version of the typical Ibizia club anthem (love the refrain!)

Posted 20 June 2011 § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “I’m a sailor peg/And I’ve lost my leg/Climbing up the top sails/I lost my leg!”

Posted 13 June 2011 § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “You’ll bring your overhead projector/To demonstrate where we’d go wrong/You’ll chart our every flaw/Shone ten times tall on the bedroom wall”

I’ve already detailed my love for The Submarines many times on this blog and the band’s new album doesn’t disappoint…

Posted 06 June 2011 § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: