tunequest

Here's today's song of the day. Michael Jackson's Pretty Young Thing from Thriller. For all Michael's recent problems, the fact remains he was absolutely amazing in his time. Thriller, Off the Wall and to a lesser extent, Bad are still phenomenal albums. I like the quasi-funk backing on this song. Groove it. [audio:061030PYT.mp3] Oh, and tomorrow is Halloween; you know what that means.

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It seems the television show theme song may be dying, or so says this cribbed AP article I ran across in a last.fm user's journal. It's not really surprising, given that show running times are increasingly crunched as the networks try to crap ever-more ads into the broadcasts. And stylistically, many show producers may be trying to "set trends" by breaking away from the decades-long practice of ...

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Here's the latest data from my tunequest performance. I'm fairly confident at this point that I will beat the life-of-project trendline as shown above. The question at the point is whether I will out-perform it enough to actually meet the goal of listening to all ~14,200 songs in my iTunes library by the end of the year. For this graph, the right edge represents the last ...

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What do you get when you remove Eminem from an Eminem song? This, the instrumental version of Without Me. You supply the rap. [audio:061027WithoutMe.mp3]

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Even in 8-bit audio, the theme to The Legend of Zelda is a rousing piece of music. But add a full orchestra to it, and you have something phenomenal. The Tokyo Symphony really imbues the song with both an expansive power and a lofty tenderness. Enjoy. Zelda

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[audio:061025Fire.mp3] Fire, as performed by Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock, New York. August 18, 1969. This rendition is just great; I prefer it.

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While it is a song with an incomprehensible name Puncture In The Radar Permutation from an album with an incomprehensible name Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night, here's the song that got me hooked on Stereolab. It's a song with several movements, beginning with a haunting tension that mounts to a climax around 2:20. Then it totally breaks down and melts that ...

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This song never fails to put a smile on my face. Coming at you from 1945, here's June Christy singing with Stan Kenton and his orchestra on the song Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy. It's full of jazzy soul. Enjoy. [audio:061023ShooFlyPie.mp3]

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Well, today is the 5th birthday of the iPod. Hooray! Time to pack the little guy a lunch and send him to kindergarten. Seems like only yesterday he was a mere 5 gigabytes tall. Now look at him: about 80! And he's much more talented now. I remember being smilingly proud the day he shuffled his first playlist, lo those years ago. And now he's out there ...

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