Art, media, opinion and ideas
Simon's tag cloud idea (which I fully expect other media to pinch, unattributed, in the coming election campaign) seems to have at least one forebear in the unlikely world of heavy metal lyrical analysis. Above is an amusing breakdown of Inhuman Rampage (honestly) by DragonForce (really) which has been called, probably not unjustly, the most unintentionally funny album of 2006.
Fergal listed his music of the year last week. As usual he takes in live shows, critical successes and wilful musical obscurities. He goes though the albums that struck a chord with him as well as those that left him cold.
Sometime ago I mentioned a series of web-related coincidences that found me listening, of an evening, to Jewish Klezmer music. Tonight I stumbled upon something much more exotic – Sacred Harp Singing. It is the oldest extant form of indigenous American music, and it is ace.
“…another sleepy, dusky, Delta day. ??? Thus did Bobbie Gentry begin her masterpiece, Ode To Billy Joe, one of the strangest songs ever to be a number one hit.
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