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Music Monday – "But like the rise and fall of a country squall/I'm getting ready to fade away"

Hard to believe that today marks two years since Willie P. Bennett passed away.  Fred Eaglesmith has apparently started covering a Willie P. song at the end of his concerts as a tribute to his long-time sideman… 

Posted 15 February 2010 § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

FTRW 2010 – Music Monday – Ten Most Controversial Music Videos of All-Time

I know I could get my entire month's worth of Freedom to Read Week Month “Music Monday” clips out of this list but I'll post them as a group since that's how I found them. 

Posted 09 February 2010 § Censorship § List § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

FTRW 2010 – Music Monday – "I guess there's gotta be a break in the monotony/But jesus when it rains, how it pours."

It's February which means Freedom to Read Week is coming at the end of the month.  Every year, I try to do a few posts during that week to celebrate and draw attention to this important subject.  For the past year, I've been bookmarking various stories I've come across that I thought had potential for […]

Posted 02 February 2010 § Censorship § Internet § Library § Main Page § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – "I'd have given anything/To have my own Pac-man game at home/I used to have to get a ride down to the arcade/Now I've got it on my phone."

I don't listen to as much country music as I did in my smalltown youth but this song caught my ear when I heard it.  I love how the first couple verses are just typical “I remember this, I remember that” cuteness but then the tone changes slightly leading to that whopper of a last […]

Posted 26 January 2010 § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – "You were the first girl at school to get breasts/And Martin said you were the best/Oh, the boys all loved ya but I was a mess/I had to work to try to get you undressed."

Pulp's “Different Class” album is a classic, topping many UK “Best of” polls for 1995 in a year when Oasis and Blur were stealing all the headlines.  (Linked clip is in French but the description sums up that rivalry.) “Common People” was the defining song on the album (and the Shatner cover is all kinds […]

Posted 19 January 2010 § Main Page § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – "You must explain why this must be/Did you lie when you spoke to me?"

I'm going to reposition this song as our official SILS training theme!  

Posted 12 January 2010 § Main Page § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – "can you see the old and lonely/walking through the park/pushing grocery carts/till the sun turns black"

(via The Bing Dynasty's List of the Top Ten Songs of 2009)

Posted 05 January 2010 § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – United States of Pop 2009

A mash-up of Billboard's top hits of the year that's probably more catchy than some of the individual songs being sampled…

Posted 28 December 2009 § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – "But now you do what they told ya"

I've mentioned the annual battle to top the UK pop charts during Christmas week before but this year's contest was especially intriguing.  The main contender was a song by this year's winner of “X-Factor”, a UK reality singing show similar to American Idol (actually, it's a copycat show created by Simon Cowell so he'd have […]

Posted 22 December 2009 § Main Page § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (1) °

Music Monday – "Whoo-whoot!"

This video is called “A Glorious Dawn” – Carl Sagan ft. Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remix) and if that doesn't hint at how much coolness is in store for you when you click play below, I have only one word – auto-tune!(found via a Reddit thread on songs that were so awesome you played them at […]

Posted 15 December 2009 § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,