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Tag: Music

Wedding remembrance: the music

Today a coworker and I got to chatting about wedding music, and she asked what songs Claire and I used during our ceremony. It took me a while to remember, and at one point I had to go into my “Day-Of Schedule” Google doc to look it up. So I’m posting here so I don’t forget.

My Top 5 Worst-Ever Christmas Songs

Yesterday I gave unto thee my Top 5 Non-Traditional Christmas Songs. Today, I’m going in a different direction, because I’ve been driven absolutely mad by some of the following songs, which are on seemingly endless repeat in every bodega, deli, grocery store, and pizzeria I’ve been in lately. Yes, today I’m being a Scrooge, because [...]

My Top 5 Non-Traditional Christmas Songs

I love all forms of Christmas music — traditional/religious carols and poppy secular songs alike. It was too difficult to make a Top 5 list that drew from the entire Christmas songbook, so here are the poppy ones first. 5. ‘The Little Drummer Boy’/’Peace on Earth,’ Bing Crosby and David Bowie OK, so this one [...]

(George Michael’s favorite Wham! song, btw.) [Andrew] Ridgeley now lives near Wadebridge, Cornwall, United Kingdom, in a restored 15th century farm property with his partner Keren Woodward[2] of the pop group Bananarama. The majority of his spare time is taken up by golf and he is a keen member of a local club where he [...]

‘Last Christmas’

Wow! mtvmusic.com

Pavement |MTV Music To quote Charlie Todd, who sums it up pretty well: “Holy shit. This new MTV Music site is UNREAL. If you have, like, a few days to kill, go check it out. They basically put every video by every band ever on the site…. I’m in heaven! I used to hit record [...]

Duran Duran ‘Rio’ video

Listening to this on iTunes right now. It’s probably instructional in some way to view this again 25 years after the fact. Duran Duran‘s videos were groundbreaking at the time. I was going to try to embed a video by Urge Overkill here, “Sister Havana,” which makes obvious references to the “Rio” vid, but it’s [...]

I like to watch this at least once a month

It makes no sense and it’s brilliant. [YouTube]