TOTALLY EXTREME SONG OF THE DAY: “FURY OF THE STORM” BY DRAGONFORCE
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TOTALLY EXTREME SONG OF THE DAY: “BLOODMEAT” BY PROTEST THE HERO
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Song of the Day: Brandenburg Concerto #2, Movement 1 by Johann Sebastian Bach
I don’t know much about classical music, but I know I love it. Call me a pleb, but… baroque music sometimes runs together. It doesn’t absorb my attention; it deflects it. Bach is essentially the urtext of Western music, but the fact that we hadn’t invented things like “dynamics” or “cadence” before the mid-18th century…
Song of the Day: “Clair de lune” by Claude Debussy
I don’t know much about classical music, but I know I love it. Saying “Clair de Lune” is one of your favorite classical songs is a bit like saying “Yesterday” is one of your favorite Beatles songs. It’s such an unchallenging opinion that it has almost no meaning. But I love it. I really, really…
Song of the Day: Violin Concerto, Movement 1 by Pyotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky
I don’t know much about classical music, but I know I love it. I could easily do a whole week of my favorite Tchaikovsky pieces, but I am bound to the one-artist-per-day rule. So then I have to narrow it down to one song. The Nutcracker Suite is one of the most delightful collections ever,…
Song of the Day: “Dracula’s Lament” from Forgetting Sarah Marshall (A Taste for Love)
There’s no business like… Show Tunes Review Week business I’m an avowed fan of Forgetting Sarah Marshall — it was basically the perfect comedy for me in college, and I’ll always hold it close to my heart. One of the film’s stand out moments is when the character played by Jason Segel (maybe my favorite…
Song of the Day: “Modern Major General (Salarian Style)” from Mass Effect 2
There’s no business like… Show Tunes Review Week business Mass Effect 2 is my favorite video game of all time. It’s absolutely brimming with great characters, phenomenal writing, and surprising moments. A lot of them are dramatic, like Jack’s breakdown during her romance scene, or semi-intentionally hammy, like Shepard shouting “this store discriminates against the…
Song of the Day: “The Rainbow Connection” from The Muppet Movie
There’s no business like… Show Tunes Review Week business Brian opted to focus on TV shows for his “Moving Muppet Moments”, so I’ll step up and stan for “Rainbow Connection. And not only because my beloved Me First and the Gimme Gimmes covered it. There’s something so poetic about the song essentially opening the first…
Song of the Day: “Sunrise, Sunset” from Fiddler on the Roof
There’s no business like… Show Tunes Review Week business If “Dear Theodosia” tugs the parental heartstrings, “Sunrise, Sunset” rips them out and stomps on them. Every parent has heard (and/or used) the same adage: “They grow up so fast.” Heck, my daughter is almost a year old, and it feels like just last week we…
Song of the Day: “I’ll Have to Dance with Cassie” from God Help the Girl
There’s no business like… Show Tunes Review Week business I am not exaggerating when I say this is one of my 100 or so favorite songs in the world. It’s pop perfection. It’s the upbeat centerpiece of God Help the Girl, the fake musical-turned-real musical written by Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian. Sung by…