I haven’t done this in a while; so now seems as good a time as any. I fired up iTunes and let ‘er rip on “Shuffle Play,” and this is what came up: Woody Guthrie, Talking Dust Bowl Blues (from: Dust Bowl Ballads) David Bowie, Lady Stardust (from: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust […]
Category: Music
R.I.P. Arthur Lee
Yet another music pioneer from the 1960’s has passed away. This time, it’s Arthur Lee, who died of leukemia at age 61. Arthur Lee was the leader of Love, one of the most prominent L.A. bands during the height of the psychedelic era in the 1960’s and one of my favorite bands of all time. […]
You know, although I’m not exactly a huge fan of it, I have sometimes in the past liked to listen to a little dose (but just a little) dose of death metal. Sometimes I’m just in the mood for some over-the-top growled lyrics of death, doom, violence, and destruction shrieked over a churning demonic-sounding metal […]
Four words: David Hasselhoff music video. Oh, the pain, the pain. Of course, even Hassel the Hoff may not be able to “top” this YouTube video from hell:
Last weekend, I posted a YouTube video of William Shatner singing Elton John’s Rocket Man in his–shall we say?–unique fashion. A fellow ScienceBlogger commented and asked if there was a video of Shatner singing Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. I’m not sure that this quite qualifies as what he had in mind, but it’s […]